Anthropology

Dr. Michael Blake, PhD

Dr. Michael Blake, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Archaeology of Mexico and Central America, Origins and spread of agriculture–especially maize (corn) and cacao (chocolate), Archaeology of the First Nations peoples of British Columbia (especially in the Salish Sea and Fraser River regions)

Graham Johnson

Professor Emeritus

Language, sociology

R.G. Matson

Professor Emeritus

Prehistoric Archaeology of B.C., Southern Coastal B.C., Southern Interior B.C., Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest

Dr. Charles Menzies

Dr. Charles Menzies

Professor

Fisheries crises, traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge, social inequality, neo-liberalism, Tsimshian, Brittany, Ireland, maritime communities, coastal communities, ethnoecology, First Nations land claims

David Pokotylo, PhD

David Pokotylo, PhD

Associate Professor

Heritage conservation

Hector Williams, BA Hons, MA, PhD

Hector Williams, BA Hons, MA, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Classics and Classical Archaeology

Fifty years of experience in maritime archaeology in Mediterranean and Arctic; classical archaeology in Greece and Turkey. Maritime history of Canada. Maritime museums (on board of Vancouver Maritime Museum for 30 years). Vampire archaeology (National Geographic tv special). Atlantis (once regular on CBC radio and tv on Atlantis stories).

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Pacific Asia Archaeology

archaeology, ancient China, ancient technologies, jades, geoarchaeology, prehistory, bronze, Shang civilization, early Chinese civilizations, Bronzes, material culture, anthropocene, early urbanization, ancient cities, ancient globalization

Dr. Lisa Cooper, PhD

Professor

Archaeology of Ancient Near East, Archaeology of the Ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylonia, Ancient Syria, Material Culture, Artifacts, Gertrude Bell, ancient pottery, Ancient Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, History of Archaeology, Archaeological Photography, Ancient History of Near East/Middle East, cuneiform,

Susan Rowley, PhD

Associate Professor and Curator

Curator of Public Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology

Museums, collaboration, archaeology, material culture, repatriation, Arctic, the North

Bruce Granville Miller

Bruce Granville Miller

Professor

Aboriginal peoples of North America, Coast Salish peoples, aboriginal law, aboriginal politics, concepts of indigeneity, human rights and Indigenous peoples, law and society, oral history evidence in court, comparative studies of aboriginal-state relations

Dr. Christine Schreyer, PhD Anthropology

Dr. Christine Schreyer, PhD Anthropology

Associate Professor

endangered languages, language revitalization and documentation, constructed languages, language planning, language policy, Indigenous languages, land planning, knowledge mobilization, community-engaged research,

Roger Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Archaeology of the Roman world, especially Sicily, Britain and north Africa

Darlene Weston, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physical anthropology, biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, human osteology, human bones, osteoarchaeology, funerary archaeology, mortuary practices

Karen Duffek

Karen Duffek

Curator

Contemporary Visual Arts + Pacific Northwest

Northwest Coast Indigenous art, Museum of Anthropology, museums and First Nations, contemporary Indigenous art, Native art, First Nations art

Mark Turin, PhD

Mark Turin, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology

Liane Gabora, PhD

Liane Gabora, PhD

Professor

creativity, computational creativity, cultural evolution, computer models of cultural evolution, concepts, agent-based models, physical light as metaphor for psychological constructs

Sara Shneiderman, PhD

Sara Shneiderman, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,

John Wagner, PhD

John Wagner, PhD

Associate Professor

Environmental anthropology, political ecology, water, water governance, agriculture, food security, food sovereignty, Columbia River Treaty, Columbia River Basin, local ecological knowledge, community-based resource management, language documentation, Okanagan Valley, Creston Valley, Columbia Basin Project area, British Columbia, Washington State, Papua New Guinea

Jennifer Kramer, PhD

Jennifer Kramer, PhD

Associate Professor

First Nations of the Northwest Coast, visual culture, art market economies, identity production, representation, repatriation, cultural property, aboriginal cultural tourism, collaborative and critical museology

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Assistant Professor

Language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Indigenous languages, community-based research