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Start the year off with the Anthropology January 2020 Newsletter. Thank you Jindra Belanger for a year of great newsletters.
Dr. Quentin Mackie, Dr. Duncan McLaren and Mr. Daryl Fedje: Smithsonian Magazine
Quentin Mackie, Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje: The Fertile Shore (Smithsonian Magazine) Dec.18, 2019.
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Dr. Brian Thom: Coastal Gaslink pipeline issue
Dr. Brian Thom joins AM 980 Vancouver to talk about the recent Coastal Gaslink pipeline issue.
Holiday must reads: Anthropology December newsletter
A big thank you to Jindra for producing the monthly newsletters. Enjoy the December edition. Happy Holidays to all.
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2019
- Congratulations Chris Hebda on your successful MA defense Defence
- Dr. Deniz Unsal: Museum Management and Curatorship
- Dr. Iain McKechnie: Great Victoria is an archaeology hotspot
- December 2: Anthropology of the City - Quadra Village Community
- Tonight: RBCM Prof. Marcello Canuto
- AAA-CASCA: Dr. Wickwire's Missing Canadian Anthropologist
- Dr. Nowell and PhD candidate Genevieve von Petzinger: New Scientist
- November 19: Anthropology Co-op student panel
- November 25: PhD candidate Marla Mackinnon
- November 18: Alumnus John Murray
- November 5: Anthropology Field School information session
- November 5: ASBC Lecture with Dr. Andrea Wolter
- What's new: November newsletter
- October 17: Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj - round-table discussion at CAPI
- October 17: Cuba 2020 Field School information session
- Congratulations: Alumni Emily Thiessen
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver on the Q-CBC
- Archaeologist Daryl Fedje: Discovers historic Haida Gwaii find
- September 24: Lansdowne Lecture: Dr. Nicole Truesdell
- ASBC: Coast Salish root garden
- Dr. Andrea Walsh and Dr. Celeste Pedri: Island Day School photos and art coming home
- Dr. McKechnie: Smithsonian Magazine
- Job: Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology—Indigenous Scholar
- Dr. Thom: Google Earth Voyager project
- Dr. McKechnie: Archaeology Magazine - Evidence of Geoduck in Tseshaht Village
- Dr. Calce: Forensic field Course simulates graves
- July 28: Archaeology Day at Point Ellice House
- Genevieve von Petzinger, PhD student: Denisovan artwork
- Job: Assistant Professor in Bio-Anthropology
- Dr. April Nowell: Molecular techniques and blood residues
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Globe and Mail
- Dr. Rudnyckyj: Max Planck keynote
- Caitlin Craig: Identifying Esquimalt Harbour's artifacts
- Emily Thiessen: Cover of Anthropology News
- Congratulations Thea Monique Lamoureux on your successful MA defense
- Congratulation Maya Cowan on your successful MA defense
- April 17: ANTH hosts Lets Talk Science
- April 23: Meaghan Efford - ASBC
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Vancouver Museum exhibition opens
- Congratulations 2019 Currents in Anthropology winners
- April 2019 Newsletter: Hot off the press
- March 28: Professor emeritus Prabhat Patnaik
- April 1: Lucy Bell, RBCM
- This summer take an Anthropology course
- Dr. Deniz Unsal: On line tour of Turkey's newest museum
- Alumna: Alexandra Lloyd published in CAPI
- Dr. McKechnie: Recipient of a CFI grant
- Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj: CBC interview
- March 19: ASBC New Approaches to Old Data
- Alumna: Nicole Smith - Clam Gardens
- Dr. Rudnyckyj: CBC Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
- JCURA 2019: Caitlin Craig, Larissa Dixon and Mikaila Hogan
- Dr. April Nowell: CBC News Paleo Diet
- Dr. Quentin Mackie: Hakai Magazine
- February 25: Meaghan Efford
- Hallie Rounthwaite: Co-op Student of the Year
- Dr. McKechnie and Jacob Earnshaw (MA UVic): American Association for the Advancement of Science
- February 19: ASBC Lecture and Meeting
- February 25: Anureet Lotay - Family Matters
- March 4: Prof. Daromir Rudnyckyj - Book Launch
- Congratulations Anthropology Rising Stars
- Dr. April Nowell: Inverse Science and Ancient Peoples
- Dr. Erin McGuire: Whim rules the Child
- Curl up with the February Newsletter
- February 13: Field School Night
- February 1: Deadline to apply. Employment: 2019-20 Limited Term Appointment in Biological Anthropology
- February 4: Dr. Michael Asch - Book launch
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Mk'Mip children's art
- January 30: Paleolithic Painting
- Alumna Aurora Skala: Virtual Rock Art Exhibit
- Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj: Public Books
- Dr. April Nowell: New Scientist
- January 2019 Newsletter
2018
- Times Colonist: Dr. Katherine Cook
- Congratulations Jenny Francoeur
- Congratulations Justin Fritz
- Congratulations Charlene Mohammed
- Congratulations Colton Vogelaar on your MA defense
- November 23: TC interviews ANTH 303 student Lydia Toorenburgh and Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
- Saturday November 16: RBCM - Bridging Victoria
- November 28: Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture - Dr. Sabrina Doyon
- Just published: Dr. April Nowell
- November 14: Yoga for Archaeology
- November 21: ASBC November lecture
- Congratulations Dr. Diedre Ann Cullon
- Have a midterm break: November's Undergraduate Newsletter
- Dr. Daromir Rudnyckj: Religion and the Morality of the Market
- 2018 Archaeological Field School in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island
- Iain McKechnie: Interviewed for the Hakai Magazine
- Andrea Walsh: Member of Canada's Venice Biennale of Architecture
- Find your final exam time
- October 25: UVic Experimental Archaeology Club Meeting
- November 9: Deadline to apply for the 2018 Cuba Field School
- HeARTspace: Marion Selfridge, PhD student talks about the new pop up gallery
- Charlene Mohammed, MA student: Published in SAPIENS
- October 10: Opening of heART space
- October 19: Coffee with Dr. Helen Kurki
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Times Colonist interview
- September 30 - There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children's Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools
- September 26: Archaeological Society of BC - lecture and AGM
- September 27: UVic Experimental Archaeology Meeting
- Iain McKechnie: New video featuring the 2017 Barkley Sound Field School
- Congratulation Dr. Iain McKechnie: Discovery Grant recipient
- September 8-10: Organized Sound Symposium
- Alisha Gauvreau, PhD student: In the News
- Start of your term with the September Newsletter
- Congratulations to our Anthropology students who have defended this summer.
- August 31: Sharonne Specker - MA defence
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: shortlisted for the Professor Sir David Watson Award
- Quentin Mackie, Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje: Science Magazine
- Dr. April Nowell: Discovery Magazine
- August 28: Joshua A. Hazelbower - MA defence
- August 11: Julia Meyers, MA defence
- August 14: Jennifer Robinson, PhD defence
- August 2: John Murray MA defence
- Congratulations Ursula Abramczyk on your MA defence
- Congratulations on your MA defences: Kelda Helweg-Larsen and Shereen Kukha-Bryson
- Congratulations Nick Wees on your MA defence
- Ashley Hopper and the first annual Sidney Comic Book Festival
- Congratulations to alumna: Dr. Pedri-Spade
- Last flintknapping session of the term is Wednesday May 3 at 5pm in Cornett B250
- CBC: Residential School Survivor reunited with painting
- April 7: Sonoptica Film Festival 2017
- Alisha Gauvreau, PhD student in the Vancouver Sun: Ancient BC site uncovered
- Dr. Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje: Decouvert Radio Canada Television
- Dr. Matwychuk: Times Colonist review on Victoria's affordable housing crunch
- Interested in trying flint knapping?
- Congratulations Dr. Andrea Walsh: 2017 Provost's Engaged Scholar recipient
- Congratulations JCURA winners: Michael Graeme, Melanie Heizer and Dalton Pagani
- Congratulations: Cynthia Korpan, INTD PhD student, Winner of the Educational Developer Leadership Award
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Times Colonist interview on the dark echoes of residential schools
- March 11: 7th Latin America Research Group Workshop
- Join us Saturday March 11: Currents in Anthropology Conference
- Congratulations John Murray, MA Candidate: 2016 Andy Farquharson Award recipient
- March 9: Dr. Monika Winarnita, 2017 UVic Author Celebration
- Dr. Duncan McLaren and Dr. Darcy Mathews (alumnus) winners of the Ecological Society of America's William Skinner Cooper Award
- Deadline March 1: Get your applications in for the Barkley Sound Archaeology Field School
- March 8: Lansdowne Lecture: Dr. Robert Hogg
- March 6: Visual storytelling: A glimpse into world-changing research
- March 7: Reconciliation and resurgence: How Indigenous artists are re-imagining the story of Canada
- March 7: On being here to stay, together
- Brian Thom: Spoke with the Gazette on Douglas Treaties
- February 15: Deadline Social Sciences Field Course Student Support Fund
- March 11: Currents in Anthropology 2017 - your research - your passion
- February 2: Improve your flintknapping skills
- Research Assistant Job: Ethnographic Mapping Lab
- February 9: Discover your major passion
- February 1: Barkley Sound Archaeology Field School Information Session
- January 23: Mapping The Jewish Cemetery in Victoria
- January 23: Community Mapping Showcased - Ethnographic Mapping Lab
- Site name
- Accepting applications soon: 2017 Barkley Sound Archaeological Field School
2017
- Times Colonist: Dr. Katherine Cook
- Congratulations Jenny Francoeur
- Congratulations Justin Fritz
- Congratulations Charlene Mohammed
- Congratulations Colton Vogelaar on your MA defense
- November 23: TC interviews ANTH 303 student Lydia Toorenburgh and Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
- Saturday November 16: RBCM - Bridging Victoria
- November 28: Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture - Dr. Sabrina Doyon
- Just published: Dr. April Nowell
- November 14: Yoga for Archaeology
- November 21: ASBC November lecture
- Congratulations Dr. Diedre Ann Cullon
- Have a midterm break: November's Undergraduate Newsletter
- Dr. Daromir Rudnyckj: Religion and the Morality of the Market
- 2018 Archaeological Field School in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island
- Iain McKechnie: Interviewed for the Hakai Magazine
- Andrea Walsh: Member of Canada's Venice Biennale of Architecture
- Find your final exam time
- October 25: UVic Experimental Archaeology Club Meeting
- November 9: Deadline to apply for the 2018 Cuba Field School
- HeARTspace: Marion Selfridge, PhD student talks about the new pop up gallery
- Charlene Mohammed, MA student: Published in SAPIENS
- October 10: Opening of heART space
- October 19: Coffee with Dr. Helen Kurki
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Times Colonist interview
- September 30 - There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children's Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools
- September 26: Archaeological Society of BC - lecture and AGM
- September 27: UVic Experimental Archaeology Meeting
- Iain McKechnie: New video featuring the 2017 Barkley Sound Field School
- Congratulation Dr. Iain McKechnie: Discovery Grant recipient
- September 8-10: Organized Sound Symposium
- Alisha Gauvreau, PhD student: In the News
- Start of your term with the September Newsletter
- Congratulations to our Anthropology students who have defended this summer.
- August 31: Sharonne Specker - MA defence
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: shortlisted for the Professor Sir David Watson Award
- Quentin Mackie, Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje: Science Magazine
- Dr. April Nowell: Discovery Magazine
- August 28: Joshua A. Hazelbower - MA defence
- August 11: Julia Meyers, MA defence
- August 14: Jennifer Robinson, PhD defence
- August 2: John Murray MA defence
- Congratulations Ursula Abramczyk on your MA defence
- Congratulations on your MA defences: Kelda Helweg-Larsen and Shereen Kukha-Bryson
- Congratulations Nick Wees on your MA defence
- Ashley Hopper and the first annual Sidney Comic Book Festival
- Congratulations to alumna: Dr. Pedri-Spade
- Last flintknapping session of the term is Wednesday May 3 at 5pm in Cornett B250
- CBC: Residential School Survivor reunited with painting
- April 7: Sonoptica Film Festival 2017
- Alisha Gauvreau, PhD student in the Vancouver Sun: Ancient BC site uncovered
- Dr. Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje: Decouvert Radio Canada Television
- Dr. Matwychuk: Times Colonist review on Victoria's affordable housing crunch
- Interested in trying flint knapping?
- Congratulations Dr. Andrea Walsh: 2017 Provost's Engaged Scholar recipient
- Congratulations JCURA winners: Michael Graeme, Melanie Heizer and Dalton Pagani
- Congratulations: Cynthia Korpan, INTD PhD student, Winner of the Educational Developer Leadership Award
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Times Colonist interview on the dark echoes of residential schools
- March 11: 7th Latin America Research Group Workshop
- Join us Saturday March 11: Currents in Anthropology Conference
- Congratulations John Murray, MA Candidate: 2016 Andy Farquharson Award recipient
- March 9: Dr. Monika Winarnita, 2017 UVic Author Celebration
- Dr. Duncan McLaren and Dr. Darcy Mathews (alumnus) winners of the Ecological Society of America's William Skinner Cooper Award
- Deadline March 1: Get your applications in for the Barkley Sound Archaeology Field School
- March 8: Lansdowne Lecture: Dr. Robert Hogg
- March 6: Visual storytelling: A glimpse into world-changing research
- March 7: Reconciliation and resurgence: How Indigenous artists are re-imagining the story of Canada
- March 7: On being here to stay, together
- Brian Thom: Spoke with the Gazette on Douglas Treaties
- February 15: Deadline Social Sciences Field Course Student Support Fund
- March 11: Currents in Anthropology 2017 - your research - your passion
- February 2: Improve your flintknapping skills
- Research Assistant Job: Ethnographic Mapping Lab
- February 9: Discover your major passion
- February 1: Barkley Sound Archaeology Field School Information Session
- January 23: Mapping The Jewish Cemetery in Victoria
- January 23: Community Mapping Showcased - Ethnographic Mapping Lab
- Site name
- Accepting applications soon: 2017 Barkley Sound Archaeological Field School
2016
- February 9: Dr. Iain McKechnie talks about ancient fish and fishing in BC
- Studies in shallow graves: The Ring
- Dr. Lisa Gould warns lemur's survival threatened
- Dr. Helen Kurki: The real reasons why childbirth is so painful and dangerous
- Dr. Gould: Is the ring-tailed lemur going the way of the dodo?
- Congratulations VÉRONIQUE PLANTE on your successful MA defence.
- Alumnus Nic Healey: Honours paper published
- Congratulations: MA student, Charli Mohammed, winner of the 2016 Student Research Fellowship
- Study break? December 2016 Undergraduate Newsletter
- December 1: De-stress before exams by smashing rocks!
- Dr. April Nowell: Stone Age Kitchenware
- Genevieve von Petzinger PhD candidate: In UVic News
- Mark McIntyre, MA student: Auto Rewind
- Dr. Ann Stahl: Archaeology Magazine
- Dr. April Nowell: Archaeology Magazine
- November 8: ASBC presents Cameron Robertson
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Outstanding Achievement by the BC Museums Association award nomination
- Final Exam Timetable
- October 27: Coffee with Dr. Quentin Mackie
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Out of the Frame - Salish Printmaking at Legacy Downtown
- Dr. April Nowell: Rhino blood and Rex the Party Pig - CBC As it happens
- Congratulations Brandy Kosiancic and Hailey McLeod: Film chosen for a film festival in Poland
- Archaeology field school digs deep in Nuu-chah-nulth territories
- September 20: Archaeological Society of BC Lecture - Morley Eldridge
- Dr. Duncan McLaren and Dr. Darcy Mathews: Indigenous Peoples enhanced environment
- Congratulaitions Celeste Pedri on your successful - Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
- Congratulations on your successful MA defence: Raviv Litman
- Congratulations Nicholas Smith on your successful MA defence
- Congratulations on your successful MA defence Katharine Neale
- Congratulations on your successful MA defence: Janelle Kuntz
- Congratulations Dr. April Nowell and team for your discovery of 250, 000 year old butchering tools.
- Congratulations Katrina Kosyk on your successful MA defence
- Read Meaghan Efford, ANTH BA honours paper - Arbutus Review
- Dr. Lisa Gould: Back story of cute baby lemur
- Congratulations Elizabeth Hagestedt: 2016 Andy Farquharson Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching
- Congratulations Dr. Erin McGuire: Winner of the 2016 Excellence in Teaching for Experiential Learning award
- Congratulations Charlie Mohammed: Award winner of the CAPI Crossing Borders Scholarship
- 2016 National Geographic Emerging Explorer: Genevieve von Petzinger, PhD candidate.
- Congratulations Jude Isabella (2009 ANTH/Writing) on your National Magazine nomination
- May 3: Myriam Gerber, MA Final Oral Examination
- 7 Films: Stimulate-Reflect-Surprize
- April 27: Jacob Earnshaw, MA Final Oral Examination
- Holly Cecil: The Bare Bones - Zooarchaeology at the University of Victoria
- April 19: ASBC lecturer - Alex Lausanne
- April 21: Emma Blinkhorn, Final Oral Examination, MA
- Dr. Erin McGuire: Winner of the Excellence in Teaching for Experiential Learning award
- April 18: Stephanie Calce, Final Oral Examination PhD
- April 17: Book Launch - More Than One Street
- April 7: Dr. Iain McKechnie and Dr. Chris Neufeld
- Marion Selfridge: Cellphones a lifeline for street youth
- April: Anthropology Newsletter
- April 7: Marion Selfridge, MSW, PhD student
- April 5-6: Sonoptica Media Festival
- April 6: Anthropology Honours Student Conference
- March 30: Medieval Archaeology Research Fair
- Tatiana Degai: Exlporing the lives of the Indigenous people of Russia's Pacific Coast
- Congratulations: Winners from the 2016 Currents in Anthropology Conference
- Dr. Lisa Gould: National Geographic article on lemurs
- In Memorium: Professor Emeritus Donald H. Mitchell
- March 15: Jacob Earnshaw MA student
- March 9: Anthropology students at JCURA
- Dr. Erin McGuire: Making knowledge stick
- March 14: Grad School Information Night
- March 4: Currents in Anthropology - 2nd Annual Student Research Conference
- May 31: Deadline for Honours Program 2016-2017 applications
- March 2016 Undergraduate Newsletter
- March 8: Andrea Walsh - Getting Personal
- Thursday, February 25: Anthropology Field School Information Night
- 2016 ASBC Events
- March 1: Deadline for Barkley Sound Archaeological Field School
- February 17: Karoline Guelke, PhD candidate and Tourism in Peru
- Available now: Preliminary exam timetable
- Times Colonist Opinion Editorial: Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Dr. Erin McGuire'a blog on teaching and anthropology for the UofT press
- February 6: "Ice Age Art & the Origins of Graphic Representation"
- March 21: Summer Session registration starts
- February 4: Tea with Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Interview with Dr. Tara Clarke, Alumna
- February 2: Archaeological field school info session: Barkley Sound 2016
- January 28: Katrina C. Kosyk lectures on Ancient Costa Rican Musical Instruments and Shamanistic Practices
- Summer 2016 Anthropology courses
- Summer 2016: Dynamic learning in the field
- January 21: Dr. Monika Winarnita, Post Doc. Dancing the Feminine
- Alumnus Dr. Darcy L. Mathews' talk: FROM CAMAS TO CLAMS: COAST SALISH AND HEILTSUK ETHNOECOLOGY AT THE MONUMENTAL SCALE
- ASBC January 19 behind the RBCM scenes tour for members. Join now and sign up.
- Congratulations Julia Lacy on your successful MA Oral Examination
- Congratulations Betsy Hagestedt: Recipient of the 2015 Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Students
- Happy Anthropologists read New Year's Newsletter
2015
- Dr. Nowell presents Paleo Porn for TEDx
- Bradshaw Foundation showcases Alumna Aurora Skala
- Why did the chicken cross the street? Read the December newsletter
- Congratulations Nicholas Healey: 2015 SUNTA Undergraduate Paper winner
- Ruth Benedict Prize for Best Edited Book: Dr. Leslie Butt and Dr. Monika Winarnita
- Wanted: An Anthropology MA Student to work on Digital Media in Cuba
- Genevieve von Petzinger: TED Talk goes live
- November 17: ASBC presents CANYON WAR
- Dr. Andrea Walsh: Healing through connection
- November 16: Dr. Matwychuk - International Education Week
- November 2015: UG Newsletter - Be in the know
- November 2: Cuba Field School applications due
- Final Exam Timetable
- 2015 Archaeology Field School on Calvert Island
- November 5: Double premiere: Fabrik Funk and The Eagle
- Read all about it: October 2015 Newsletter
- October 20: ASBC Lecture and Meeting
- November 5: Anthropology Honours Program - Information Session
- cancelled - October 20:Dr. Peter Stephenson teaches course: Stress and Sudden Unexplained Death
- October 13: Field Schools Information Session
- October 13: Cuba Field School 2016 information session
- October 6-9: Digital Drawing Tablets Workshops - Free
- October 1: An Anthropology of Religious Persecution: Trigger, Stereotype, and Special Procedure
- September 29 at 7:00pm: ASBC AGM and Film Screening of “Impact of the Frolic”
- Student Research Assistant Wanted: Graphic Icon Designer
- Fishing for the first Americans: Quentin Mackie, Daryl Fedje and Duncan McLaren
- Leslie Butt talks with the RING about children without states
- Apply before September 10: co-op position with Parks Canada this Fall term
- New to Anthropology? Come meet your department on September 21
- Dr. Lisa Gould is quoted in Scientific American about threats to the ring-tailed lemur
- Genevieve von Petzinger, PhD candidate asks, Did early humans communicate with cave signs?
- New Courses in Anthropology for 2015-2016
- Have faculty members Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje found North America's oldest human footprint?
- Aurora Skala, MA candidate exposes early rock art in BC
- Dr. Leslie Butt talks with CBC about the impact of migration on children in southeast Asia
- Globe and Mail reports on Dr. Andrea Walsh's work with Port Alberni Residential School Survivors and theTRC
- Stephanie Calce, PhD candidate talks with CHEK news about the search for a clandestine grave
- Hakai: The Archaeology Story
- Joyce Underwood (February 16, 1948 - May 18, 2015)
- CBC The National: PhD candidate Genevieve von Petzinger and Dr April Nowell
- NEW Summer Course: Forensic Anthropology
- Nancy Turner, Hakai Chair in Ethnoecology: Clam gardens call into question First Nations hunter-gather past
- Dr. Lisa Gould appointed to AJPA editorial board
- Congratulations to Alumna Dr. Danielle Macdonald (MA Anthropology Uvic 2007) on her tenure track position!
- Good week for Alumna Jude Isabella: The Tyee and The New York Times!
- CBC interviews Duncan McLaren about the Sea Level Hinge and Persistent Places
- May 15 deadline: Apply for 2015-2016 JCURA
- New UVIC Libraries Student Scholarship: Deadline May 31
- Call for volunteers: Forensic Anthropology Day
- June 11-13 Migration Conference at UVIC
- Congratulations to Dr. Tara Clarke (Ph.D. Anthropology Uvic 2015)
- National Georgraphic turns to Dr. April Nowell
- CBC show cases Genevieve von Petzinger, PhD candidate's Eureka Moment!
- Congratulations to the Award Winners at Currents in Anthropology
- Congratulations to Tara Clarke on her Final Oral Exam, PhD
- PhD candidate Tara Clarke's interview on CBC
- CHEK News visits Anthropology
- Tara Clarke: Final Oral Exam for PhD
- March 13: You're invited to the Currents in Anthropology Conference
- Dr. April Nowell talks with the TC about Anthropology's IdeaFest on Saturday March 7
- Dr. Brian Thom responds to Facebook's challenges of some Native names legitimacy
- Saturday, March 14, 12 noon: Dr. Josiah Heyman, Experiences at the U.S. - Mexico Border
- Today March 4: Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards, Congratulations Anthropology Winners!
- March 6: Eric Peterson, Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute
- March 5: Melanie Callas, MA student competes in the finals for the- 3 Minute Thesis
- Stella Wenstob's Final Oral Examination for MA: Friday February 27
- Celebrate National Anthropology Day: February 19th
- March 7: Try it ! Hands on Anthropology
- Undergraduate Newsletter welcomes 2015
- Top 14 essays downloaded in 2014: Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj's
- Dr. Marianne Nicolson, Alumna 2013 recent artwork: The Rivers Monument was unveiled at the Vancouver Airport.
- Chair Ann Stahl invites you to meet the 2015 Annual AAA Meeting Program and Site Committee
- Dr. Susan Crockford discusses Polar Bear populations with the Financial Post
- Darcy Mathews talks about First Nations' Cemeteries with the Globe and Mail
- Dr. Melanie Chang explores Human Evolution at recent TEDx talk
- Check Anthropology Labs starting dates this term
- Eric McLay, PhD student and archaeologist talks with Focus about Grace Islet
- Happy New Year 2015
2014
- Tree bearing Christmas Wishes burst into bloom
- Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier interviewed about the changes to US and Cuba diplomatic relations
- Congratulations to Sarah Chisholm Fletcher on her Final Oral Exam, PhD
- Anthropology's primatologists produce the First Annual Lemur Rescue Calendar
- Last Newsletter for 2014
- Congratulations to Anthropology's 2014 Scholarship Winners!
- Check out the Anthropology November Newsletter
- Aviva Lessard on CBC about Soundscapes at the RBC Museum
- SPECIAL EVENT: Soundscapes at the RBC Museum Friday night
- Adjunct Dr. Susan Crockford in the Victoria News
- MA student Matthew Bullock on the EPAB dig at the ancient site of Eleon, Greece
- Vikings in the Northern Sphere: Grant Keddie from RBC, November 18 at 7:30pm
- Congratulations to Jenny Cohen on her successful Master's oral examination
- Congratulations to all the graduating Anthropology students!
- MA student Amy Becker and Honours student Sharonne K. Specker write for The ARBUTUS Review
- PhD student Betsy Hagestedt talks about Digital Humanities and Anthropology
- New community-university engagement network
- Hakai Research Exchange 2014
- Tara Fraser's article, Vikings: Lives Beyond The Legends
- Exhibition: We Are All One
- Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier debates social media and 2014 World Cup
- Brian Thom presents at Geo4Good2014
- Alumna: Jude Isabella videos Elephants at risk: Guardian
- Ancient technology, meet the future of underwater archaeology: The RING
- Watch: Canada's oldest archaelogical find unearthed on Haida Gwaii with Quentin Mackie and Daryl Fedje
- Salish Reflection: Coast Salish Art and Artists on Campus
- September 22: Ancient technology, meet the future of underwater archeology
- Alumna: Jude Isabella nominated for Canadian Science Book Prize
- Globe and Mail: Underwater discovery near Haida Gwaii could rewrite human history
- Vancouver Sun: Quentin Mackie and team may have found the earliest evidence of human habitation in Canada
- Dr. Brian Thom on CBC's Up North about Google mapping for First Nations
- April Nowell and Melanie Chang: Anthropology Looking beyond notion of erotica in prehistoric art
- Dr. Erin McGuire Lectures at the RBC Museum
- ASBC archaeology lecture
- Rachel Flowers: Final MA Oral Examination
- Anthropology hosts Google Mapping Workshop with 70 First Nations members
- September 17: Continuing Education offers Forensic Course
- Viking Age skill-building at the Royal BC Museum: Ring
- Vikings in Iceland Talk with Dr. Erin McGuire on August 9
- Monday August 11: Final MA Oral Examination: Tia Hiltz
- Amanda Cooke Final MA Oral Defence on August 6
- Darcy Lane Mathews: Final Oral Examination will be held Thursday, July 31 at 10:00
- Globe and Mail: Google Earth Outreach, Stz'uminus First Nation elder Ray Harris and Dr. Brian Thom start mapping territories
- Jody Weir: Final Oral Examination on July 10, 2014 - note time and room change
- CBC interviews Anthropology's archaeologist, Eric McLay on Grace Islet
- Gulf Island dig reveals surprising insights into First Nations 1,000 years ago
- Read about Dr. Nancy Turner's new book on ethnobotany in FOCUSonline.
- Workshops on Flintknapping and Stone Tool Technologies on June 15
- Listen to Dr. Erin McGuire's input on Vikings in the magazine Canada's History
- Read Celeste Pedri, PhD student's recent article in "Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society"
- Dr. Erin McGuire lectures on Vikings at the Royal BC Museum, Thursday May 29
- Dr. Lisa Gould talks about Lemur conservation after the IMAX showing of Island of Lemurs
- Genevieve von Petzinger, PhD student places in the top 25 SSHRC Storytelling contest
- Anthropology Doctoral students attend the first SSHRC Migration Master Class at UVic
- See ANTH Co-op student Justine Drummond's term project on Margaret Peterson in the McPherson Library
- Read Province's interview with PhD candidate Darcy
- Gulf Island Field School: Applications accepted until March 28
- Hot off the press: Dr. Asch's "On Being Here To Stay: Treaties And Aboriginal Rights "
- New Summer Courses: Living Technologies and Perishable Goods.
- Take the ferry to UBC the Archaeology Day on March 15
- Thursday, March 13 at 4:30: Dust and Bones - Ancestral Burial Sites of the Coast Salish
- Camosun Connect: March 27
- Sarah-Louise Decrausaz, MA candidate runner up in the 3MT
- Alumna Jude Isabella writes "Outside the Cave"
2013
- Thank you to the UVic Donors who support our graduate students.
- Bunny Bombing: A Social Practice Art Project
- How I Spent my Summer Vacation
- Genevieve von Petzinger on CBC Radio One All Points West, October 24
- Sarah-Louise Decrausaz MA student wins Davidson Black Prize at CAPA 2013
- Royal BC Museum gets creepy for Halloween on October 25
- Sold Out: Dr. Brian Thom, Dean's Lunch Time Lecture Series
- Shrew eating study earns an Ig Nobel Prize for 2013
- Support for Indigenous mapping initiatives
- PhD student Dee Sanders Cullon wins SSHRC graduate scholarship
2012 and earlier
For archive news older than September 2013, see the Anthropology News Archives.