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
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
Associate Professor
Heritage conservation
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
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
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
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
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
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology
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,
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
Assistant Professor
Language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Indigenous languages, community-based research