CHRISTOPHER J.H. AMES
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Honours Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
Thesis: “Hominin Occupation and Landscape Evolution during the Middle and Late Pleistocene at the Druze Marsh Site in Northeast Jordan” Interests: Paleolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, human-environment relationships, site-formation processes Supervisors: Andre Costopoulos (McGill) & Carlos Cordova (Oklahoma State University) christopher.ames [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email) |
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KIM ARMSTRONG
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; BA, MA Anthropology, University of Alberta)
Interests: Conflict, displacement, humanitarianism, discourse analysis, post-structuralism, northern Uganda Supervisor: John Galaty kimberley.armstrong [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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SARAH BEAN
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; Ontario Graduate Certificate in Museum Management and Curatorship, Fleming College; BA Anthropology, McGill University)
Current Employment: Teacher in the Anthropology Department at John Abbott College (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec) Interests: Evolution education, human evolution, Canadian museums, Canada Thesis: “Evolution Education in Canada's Museums: Where is Human Evolution?” Supervisors: Michael Bisson and Brian Alters (Chapman University) sarah.bean [at] johnabbott.qc.ca (Email) Website
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DANIEL BITTON
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
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SHIKA CARD
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
Thesis: "Hearing and Speaking with Senility: Aging, Dementia, and Caregiving in Beijing, China" Interests: Aging, senility, end-of-life, caregiving, mental health; China Supervisor: Sandra Hyde shika.card [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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JANET E. CHILDERHOSE
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA University of Toronto; BA Anthropology, University of Waterloo)
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) University of Michigan About Current Employment: I joined the CBSSM in the Department of Internal Medicine in September 2013, and am supervised by Dr. Beth Tarini, a primary care pediatrician with appointments at CBSSM and the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit. My research focus is the ethical dimensions of performing bariatric surgery on obese children and adolescents under 18 years of age. With Dr. Scott Roberts at the School of Public Health, I continue my research on personalized medicine in the US, and am participating in working groups of the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Consortium. I am also a Co-Investigator on a 5-year prospective cohort study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that examines the psychological and behavioral responses of children following PICU hospitalization in four cities. Training and Skills: Qualitative research (policy hearings) and data analysis (ethnographic and clinical); grant-writing. Interests: Medicalization of children, bariatric surgery, personalized medicine, United States Thesis: “Genetic Discrimination: Genealogy of an American Problem” Supervisor: Margaret Lock Curriculum vitae childerh [at] med.umich.edu (Email) Website
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BEN COLLINS
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, University of Alberta; BA Anthropology, University of Manitoba)
Thesis: "The Taphonomy and Subsistence Strategies from the Final Middle Stone Age Occupation at Sibudu Cave, South Africa" Interests: Zooarchaeology, taphonomy, southern Africa Supervisor: Andre Costopoulos benjamin.collins [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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JENNIFER CUFFE
(MA Medical Anthropology, McGill University; BSc Biochemistry and Anthropology)
Interests: Medical anthropology, anthropology of science, efficacy, number, bureaucracy, emotion, Canada Thesis: “Medicine, Multiculturalism, and Managerialism: How Government Scientists Evaluate the Efficacy of Traditional and Alternative Medicines” Supervisor: Allan Young jennifer.cuffe [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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SEAN P.A. DESJARDINS
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc Anthropology, University of Toronto; BA Anthropology, New College of Florida)
Current Employment: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Thesis: "Food Security, climate change and the Zooarchaeology of Neo-Inuit Sea-Mammal Hunting, Northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada." Interests: Arctic anthropology, Arctic and subarctic ecology, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), environmental archaeology, food security and food safety, Inuit culture Supervisor: James Savelle
sean.desjardins [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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GENEVIÈVE DIONNE
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, Northern Arizona University)
Interests: Anthropology of development, alternative development, organisational culture, FAO, livelihoods approaches, practice theory, ethnography, complex organisations Thesis: “How ‘Agency’ Makes a Complex Organisation Work: A Journey in Everyday Practices at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)” Supervisor: John Galaty genevieve.dionne [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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EMILIO DIRLIKOV
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Medical Anthropology, McGill University; BS highest hon. Biology/Asian Studies with Anthropology Minor, University of Michigan)
Thesis: “Global Health Assemblages: An Ethnography of Tuberculosis in China” Interests: Global health, infectious diseases, citizenship, history of medicine Supervisors: Sandra Hyde, Tobias Rees, and Ronald Niezen Blog emilio.dirlikov [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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GABRIELLA DJERRAHIAN
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc Anthropologie, Université de Montréal; BSc Université de Montréal)
Thesis: “Black Matters: Young Ethiopian Jews and Race in Israel” Interests: Diaspora, migration, transnationalism, racialization, blackness, youth culture, cultural integration, globalization, African American studies, Jewish studies, social and cultural anthropology, anthropology of youth culture, anthropology of race and ethnicity, anthropology of development; Middle East (Israel), North America (Canada, Quebec), East Africa (Ethiopia) Supervisor: Setrag Manoukian gabriella.djerrahian [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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JESSICA M. DOLAN
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc Ethnobotany, University of Kent at Canterbury; BA, New School for Social Research)
Thesis: “The Restorative Ecology of the Great Law of Peace: Environmental Knowledge and Stewardship in Haudenosaunee Homeland” Interests: Environmental anthropology, Indigenous studies, ethnoecology, political ecology, community/participatory methods, oral tradition, Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, native cultures of northeastern North America, Ireland Supervisors: Andre Costopoulos and Colin Scott Website jessica.dolan [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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EMILY DONALDSON
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Social Sciences, University of Chicago; BA high honours Anthropology, Harvard University)
Thesis: “Living with Sacred Lands: Negotiating Sustainable Heritage Management and Livelihoods in the Marquesas Islands” Interests: Cultural landscapes, resources, land use and embodiment, heritage management, sustainability, power, development, indigenous peoples; Oceania, French Polynesia Supervisor: Colin Scott Website Blog emily.donaldson [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email) Curriculum vitae
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JOSHUA EISEN
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
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MARIE-PIERRE GADOUA
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Thesis: “Intersecting Knowledges: Engagement and Reciprocity between Arctic Archaeology and Inuit People” Interests: Collaborative archaeology, material culture, memory, oral traditions, culture and health, tradition and modernity, Inuit Supervisor: James Savelle and Nicole Couture marie-pierre.gadoua2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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HANNAH GILBERT
(MA Medical Anthropology, McGill University; BA Mount Holyoke College)
Interests: Medical anthropology, Senegal, Burkina Faso Supervisor: Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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PAULA GODOY-PAIZ
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Social Anthropology, York University; BA Anthropology, Health & Society)
Interests: Violence, social suffering, gender, Guatemala Thesis: “Women and Violence in Urban Post-War Guatemala” Supervisor: Kristin Norget
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NEHA GUPTA
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, University College, London; BSc Archaeological Sciences, University of Toronto)
Interests: Practice of archaeology, GIS and geovisualization, post-colonial societies Thesis: "Behind the frontline: local communities, national interests and the practice of Indian archaeology" Supervisor: Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (McGill) and Stephen Chrisomalis (Wayne State University) neha.gupta [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email) Website
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RANDY HAHN
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, McGill University; BSc Archaeology and Geography, University of Lethbridge)
Thesis: "The Social Production of the Chimu Empire" Interests: Chimu empire, colonialism and power, processes of subjectification, north coast of Peru Supervisor: Nicole Couture randy.hahn [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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RYAN HECHLER
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
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CASEY HILLIARD
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; BS Biology, McGill University)
Interests: Critical social theory, global capitalism, consumption studies, Malaysia Thesis: “Producing Healthy Individuals in Malaysia: The Production and Consumption of Health and Wellness among Malay Women” Supervisor: Sandra Hyde
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CARLYN JAMES
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA, University of Alabama)
Interests: Development anthropology, the informal economy, trust and solidarity networks, knowledge adoption, microfinance, gender, Kenya Supervisor: John Galaty carlyn.james [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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NOOR JOHNSON
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Public Anthropology, American University; BA Development Studies, Brown University)
Interests: Governance, institutions, social/environmental change, activism, networks, politics of knowledge, Inuit, scientists, researchers, policymakers, activists, Arctic/global networks and institutions Thesis: “Inuit ‘Participation’ in Climate Change Governance: From Clyde River to Copenhagen” Supervisor: Ronald Niezen noor.johnson [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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IAN KALMAN
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; BA, University of Chicago)
Thesis: "Indigenous Difference at the Canada/US Border" Interests: Indigenous peoples of North America, indigenous rights, anthropology of law, border studies, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois studies, security and surveillance Supervisors: Ronald Niezen and Colin Scott ian.kalman [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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HANNA KIENZLER
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen)
Current Employment: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London Interests: War, violence, trauma, mental health, global (mental) health, humanitarian aid, Kosova, Palestine, Nepal Thesis: “The Differential Impact of War and Trauma on Kosovar Albanian Women Living in Post-War Kosova” Supervisor: Allan Young hanna.kienzler [at] kcl.ac.uk (Email) Website
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OLIVIER LAROCQUE
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ERICA LAGALISSE
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Social Anthropology, Concordia University)
Thesis: "Good Politics": Property, Intersectionality, and the Making of the Anarchist Self Interests: The PhD dissertation explores anarchist networks that cross Québec, the United States, Mexico and beyond, to illustrate similarities and differences among diverse anarchist scenes, as well as examine diverse contradictions characterizing anarchist solidarity activism and settler ‘anarchoindigenism’. The multi-sited ethnography throws into relief the particular practices of university-educated Anglo-American leftists, and draws on anthropological, feminist and critical race theory to show how they have preempted the black feminist challenge of “intersectionality” by recuperating its praxis within the logic of neoliberal self-making projects and property relations. The anarchists are finally presented as a limit case: even within their ‘autonomous’ practices, the propertizing self prevails in the game of “good politics” - the Bridge of all prestige games, and one which structures much contemporary critical academic scholarship as well. Ongoing post-doctoral research concerns “conspiracy theory”; the politics of trauma and recognition in North America; the political economy of marijuana legalization in the Americas. Supervisors: PhD: Kristin Norget. External Examiners: Beverley Skeggs, Gabriella Coleman; MA: Sally Cole erica.lagalisse [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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DAVID LESSARD
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Thesis: “Formalization of Identity, a Diversity of Experiences and the Emergence of a Cree Community in Québec Abitibi” Interests: Social and cultural anthropology, history of colonialism, development and bureaucracies, formalization of identity, Northern Québec, Ontario Supervisor: Colin Scott david.lessard2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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JENNIFER PAIGE MACDOUGALL
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University)
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SCOTT MATTER
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology, University of Alberta)
Interests: Politics, development, governance, corruption, indigenous rights, post-foraging communities, Dorobo, Maasai, Kenya Thesis: “Socio-cultural politics of rural poverty and resource governance in Kenya's Rift Valley” Supervisor: John Galaty
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C. WESLEY MATTOX
(BA History and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)
Interests: Intra-urban organization and differentiation at Tiwanaku, Bolivia archaeology, early urbanism, ceramics, materiality, Highland Andes Supervisor: Nicole Couture
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PIERRE MINN
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Medical Anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology, Yale University)
Interests: Medical anthropology, humanitarianism, philanthropy, global health movements, Haiti, Dominican Republic, North America Thesis: “‘Where They Need Me’: The Moral Economy of International Medical Aid in Haiti” Supervisor: Allan Young pierre.minn [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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ALICIA MORI
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Social Sciences, University College Utrecht)
Thesis: "Conservation Connections: Governance, Social Connected and Democratic Dilemmas in Lake Natron Wildlife Management Area" Interests: Conservation, land conflict, political ecology, knowledge production, social mobility, indigenous peoples; Tanzania Supervisor: John Galaty alicia.mori [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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BRODIE NOGA
(MA Anthropology, McGill University) |
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KARINE PESCHARD
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology and History, McGill University; MA International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia)
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva Interests: Medical and cultural anthropology, biotechnology, seeds, intellectual property rights, social movements, Brazil, India Thesis: “Biological Dispossession: An Ethnography of Resistance to Transgenic Seeds Among Small Farmers in Southern Brazil” Supervisor: Vinh-Kim Nguyen (UdeM) karine.peschard [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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NICOLE RIGILLO
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Social and Cultural Anthropology, Concordia University; BA hon. Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Thesis: "Doing Well by Doing Good: Logics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangalore, India" Interests: Biopolitics, history of welfare, neoliberalism, market/gift exchange, humanitarianism, Hinduism, charity; India Supervisor: Lisa Stevenson Website nicole.rigillo [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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REMY ROUILLARD
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Anthropology, McGill University)
Interests: Indigenous Peoples and the Oil Industry Region: Russian Arctic Supervisor: Ronald Niezen
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RIAMIT STANLEY
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
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SARA E. THIAM
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Medical Anthropology, McGill University; BA hon. Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Thesis: “Forced Begging, Aid and Children’s Rights in Senegal: Stories of Suffering and Politics of Compassion in the Promotion of Rights for the Taalibe Qur’anic School Children of Senegal and Mali” Interests: Humanitarianism, children's rights, childhood, West Africa, Senegal, Mali Supervisor: Sandra Hyde Website sara.thiam [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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JESSIKA TREMBLAY
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology, McGill University)
Interests: Technology and development, pastoralism, social change, Maasai, East Africa Supervisor: Philip Salzman jessika.tremblay [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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TAKESHI UESUGI
(MA Anthropology, McGill University)
Interests: Medical anthropology, Vietnam Supervisors: Ellen Corin and Allan Young
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CLAUDINE VALLIÈRES
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA Archaeology, Simon Fraser University; BA Anthropology, McGill University)
Interests: Zooarchaeology, anthropology of food, domestic archaeology, Andes, Titicaca basin, Bolivia Thesis: “Investigation of social differences in Tiwanaku barrios: a zooarchaeological approach” Supervisor: Nicole Couture claudine.vallieres [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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LETHA VICTOR
(PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Toronto; MA Anthropology with Development, McGill University; BA Political Science and Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
Interests: Violence, ethics, memory, gender, ontology, subjectivity, trauma, ghosts, spirit possession, Acholi, Uganda Thesis: “Living with the Dead: Building Ethical Relations in Acholi, Northern Uganda” Supervisor: Michael Lambek (UToronto) and Todd Sanders (UToronto) Curriculum vitae letha.victor [at] utoronto.ca (Email) Website
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PÉTUR WALDORFF
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MA anthropology, McGill University; BA Anthropology, University of Iceland)
Thesis: "The Cultural Politics of Development in Post-Conflict Angola" (Working Title) Interests: Post-war reconstruction, informal market, urban development, civil society, international development, poverty, Angola, Malawi Supervisor: John Galaty petur.waldorff [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email) Curriculum_vitae
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VALERIE WEBBER
(MA Anthropology, McGill University; BA Honours Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Concordia University)
Interests: Queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, performativity, public health as disciplinary practice Thesis: "Filling the Gap, Refusing the Gap: Queer Safer Sex in Montreal" Supervisor: Sandra Hyde valerie.webber [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
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CAMERON WELCH
(Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information and Office Systems, University of Alaska, Anchorage; PhD Anthropology, McGill University; BA Native Studies and Comparative Development Studies, Trent University)
Thesis: "Land is Life, Conservancy is Life.” The San and the N=a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia" Interests: San, community-based natural resource management, Indigenous rights, land reform, development, Southern Africa, Namibia Supervisor: John Galaty cwelch [at] fastmail.fm (Email)
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WILLARD WILSON WILL III
(PhD Anthropology, McGill University; MSc Social Anthropology, London School of Economics; Hospital Chaplain Residency, University of Pennsylvania; BA International Public Health (self-designed major), Pomona College)
Interests: Medical anthropology, religion, epistemology, death, discourse, phenomenology, United States Thesis: Making Hospital Chaplains in an Age of Biomedicine Supervisor: Ellen Corin wwill3 [at] yahoo.com (Email)
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COLIN WREN
(MSc Archaeology, University College London; BA Anthropology, McGill University)
Interests: Archaeology, GIS, maritime adaptations, lithics, exchange and interaction Region: James Bay Ethnic Groups: Contemporary Cree and Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers Supervisor: Andre Costopoulos Website colin.nielsen [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
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