Faculty & staff
Office
The Department of Anthropology general office is in Cornett Building (COR) B228. We're in the office Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. & work remotely on Fridays.
Faculty
Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Status: On leave
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B330 alexbf@uvic.ca 250-721-7052
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Visual anthropology, sound studies, creative practices, digital media, infrastructure, Cuba, Canada
Assistant Teaching Professor Anthropology & Faculty of Humanities
Accepting graduate students
Office: SED B102e rachelbr@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural anthropology, religion, food studies, migration, ethnography, embodiment, gender
Assistant Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B242 tatianadegai@uvic.ca 250-721-6282
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous research methodologies, ethics, and community-engaged research, ethnographies of the North-Pacific/Arctic, language revitalization
Associate Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B208 dzifa@uvic.ca 250-721-6284
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Metal hypersensitivity, evidence-synthesis, heart failure, sickle cell disease and critical care nursing, racism, nursing workforce
Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate & Honours Advisor Anthropology
Office: COR B240 meligau@uvic.ca 250-721-6254
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Economic anthropology, border studies, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-US borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán
Teaching Professor Anthropology
Office: COR B342 ehalstad@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, material culture, funerary rituals, Medieval North Atlantic, cemetery archaeology, teaching and learning in undergraduate education
Associate Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: FPH 143 rola@uvic.ca 250-472-4231
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous–state relations, Metis studies, Indigenous anthropology, history of anthropology, Indigenous education, Indigenous studies
Assistant Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B223 tommyh@uvic.ca 250-721-6647
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Nuu chah nulth ways of knowing land, language, knowledge and Identity
Assistant Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B213 akalan@uvic.ca 250-721-7058
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, primate behavioural ecology, animal communication, animal cultures, tool use, wildlife conservation, bioacoustics, camera trapping
Status: On leave
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B211a hkurki@uvic.ca 250-721-7045
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, hominin functional anatomy
Associate Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B209 ymlam@uvic.ca 250-721-7051
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology
Associate Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: Cornett B246a iim@uvic.ca 250-721-7351
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Coastal archaeology, historical ecology, Northwest coast, zooarchaeology
Status: On leave
Associate Professor Anthropology
Office: Cornett B211 amacintosh@uvic.ca 250-721-7056
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, functional anatomy, skeletal biology, life history
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B340 anowell@uvic.ca 250-721-7054
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Neanderthal, Paleolithic art and archaeology, Hominin life histories, cognitive archaeology, archaeology of children, Levant and Europe
Professor, Graduate Advisor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B210 daromir@uvic.ca 250-721-6273
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Money, capitalism, the state, ethnography. religion, finance, development, economy, globalization, social studies of finance, cryptocurrency, liberalism & neoliberalism, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe
Professor, Chair and Provost’s Engaged Scholar Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: Cornett B246B bthom@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural anthropology, Indigenous legal orders and land rights, ethnographic mapping, space and place, Coast Salish
Associate Professor, Smyth Chair in Arts & Engagement Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B238 awalsh@uvic.ca 250-721-7050
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Visual anthropology, visual culture & theory, contemporary First Nations visual culture
Staff
Graduate & undergraduate program assistant Anthropology
Office: COR B228 jindra@uvic.ca 250-721-7047
Administrative officer Anthropology
Office: COR B228 kdelsol@uvic.ca 250-721-7046
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Administrative oversight for the department
Senior Lab Instructors
Senior lab instructor, adjunct assistant professor Anthropology
Office: COR B227 scalce@uvic.ca 250-472-4730
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology
Senior lab instructor Anthropology
Office: COR B217 markmcin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Socio-cultural and multimodal anthropology, and qualitative methodological research approaches
Emeriti & adjunct professors
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William Alkire, Professor Emeritus - walkire@uvic.ca
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Heather Botting, Assistant Teaching Professor Emeritus - h.botting@uvic.ca
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Leslie Butt, Associate Professor Emeritus - lbutt@uvic.ca
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Lisa Gould, Professor Emeritus - lgould@uvic.ca
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Quentin Mackie, Associate Professor Emeritus - qxm@uvic.ca
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Margo Matwychuk, Assistant Professor Emeritus - mmatwych@uvic.ca
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Lisa Mitchell, Associate Professor Emeritus - lmm@uvic.ca
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Nicolas Rolland, Professor Emeritus - nrolland@uvic.ca
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Eric Roth, Professor Emeritus - earoth@shaw.ca
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Ann Stahl, Professor Emeritus - stahlann@uvic.ca
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Peter Stephenson, Professor Emeritus - pstephen@uvic.ca
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Margot Wilson, Associate Professor Emeritus - mwmoore@uvic.ca
cjhames@uvic.ca
Prehistoric archaeology, geoarchaeology, human-environment dynamics, geomorphology, sedimentology, palaeoecology, site formation processes, geospatial and computational methods, southwest Asia, South Africa
Michael Asch, adjunct professor
masch@uvic.ca
Socio-cultural anthropology, North America, political and legal anthropology
Judith Berman, adjunct assistant professor
jberman@uvic.ca
Franz Boas scholar, Northwest Coast oral literature and ethnohistory
Stephanie Calce, adjunct assistant professor
scalce@uvic.ca, Cornett B227, 250-721-4730
Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology
Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier, adjunct assistant professor
ccampeau@uvic.ca
Medical anthropology, the ways in which people experience their skeletal lives in the context of yoga and chiropractic care
Sarah-Louise Decrausaz, adjunct assistant professor
decrausa@uvic.ca
Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, life history, puberty, growth and development, medical imaging
ranald_donaldson@shaw.ca
Paul Ewonus, adjunct assistant professor
paul.ewonus@ecoarcheology.com
Landscape archaeology, social zooarchaeology, communities of practice, ancient DNA, Pacific Northwest, Britain, the practice of commercial archaeology
Daryl Fedje, adjunct assistant professor
DarylFedje@gmail.com
Archaeology, quaternary paleoecology, Haida Gwaii
Timothy Knowlton, adjunct professor
tknowlton@uvic.ca
Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Ethnohistory, Indigenous Mesoamerica
Quentin Mackie, adjunct associate professor
qxm@uvic.ca
Archaeology, Haida Gwaii, Salish Sea, stone tools, Northwest Coast
Margo Matwychuk, adjunct assistant professor
mmatwych@uvic.ca
Sociocultural anthropology; political economy; feminism; Latin America (Brazil); poverty; housing and homelessness; politics of food and hunger
Duncan McLaren, adjunct assistant professor
dsmclaren@gmail.com
Archaeology, Northwest coast, environmental archaeology, long-term history
Lisa Mitchell, adjunct professor
lmm@uvic.ca
Cultural anthropology, bodies and embodiment, reproduction, ultrasound imaging, children and youth, visual culture, Philippines, Canada
Jennifer Robinson, adjunct assistant professor, post-doctoral fellow, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
jcrobins@uvic.ca
Canadian history, settler colonial studies, arts and social justice, museums and archives, cultural heritage and public institutional policy, community-engaged research and advocacy
Ann Stahl, adjunct professor
stahlann@uvic.ca
Archaeology, comparative colonialism, materiality, digital heritage initiatives, Africa; Ghana
Peter Stahl, adjunct professor
pstahl@uvic.ca
Archaeology, historical ecology, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, South America, domestication
Margot Wilson
mwmoore@uvic.ca
Culture change, international development, Bangladesh, women's narratives
Sessional instructors
Stephanie Calce
COR B227
scalce@uvic.ca
Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier
COR B219
ccampeau@uvic.ca
Timothy Knowlton
COR B221
tknowlton@uvic.ca
COR B225
Mark McIntyre
COR B217
markmcin@uvic.ca
COR B212
CindyAnn Rose-Redwood
DTB B358
cindyann@uvic.ca
COR B225
spaks@uvic.ca
Morgan Windle
COR B219
morganwindle@uvic.ca
Grad students
Vist our grad student page to learn about our amazing PhD and master's students!
Anthropologists in other departments
katherineachacoso@uvic.ca
Material & Visual Cultures of the Mediterranean
Paul Bramadat, Professor, History and Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
bramadat@uvic.ca
Modern Canadian History, Religion, Secularism and Radicalization
Brendan Burke, Professor and Chair, Greek & Roman Studies
bburke@uvic.ca
Greek archaeology; Aegean Prehistory; Anatolian archaeology
Richard Fox, Professor and Chair, Pacific and Asian Studies
rpfox@uvic.ca
Asian cultural, media and film studies; Religion and public culture in Indonesia; Classical and contemporary theories of culture and society; Critical issues in language, text and translation; Hindu and Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia; Islam and popular culture in Southeast Asia; Religion, gender and power
Catherine Léger, Associate professor, French and Francophone Studies, SLLC
cleger@uvic.ca
Syntax; semantics; pragmatics; contact linguistics; French in North America
ann-elise Lewallen, Associate professor, Pacific and Asian Studies
lewallen@uvic.ca
Transcultural Japan/Asia; Critical Indigenous Studies; Environmental Justice; Gender Studies
Darcy Mathews, Associate professor, Environmental Studies
dmathews@uvic.ca
Northwest Coast archaeology, ethnoecology, historical ecology, community-based participatory research, heritage conservation of sacred sites and places.
Marcus Milwright, Professor, Art History and Visual Studies
mmilwrig@uvic.ca
Medieval Islamic art and archaeology
agsinner@uvic.ca
The study of ancient colonialism and the social, economic and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age and the Roman era. Most notably, mobility and demography, religion, daily practices, cultural change and identity formation, pre-Roman languages, archaeometry, and archaeological method and theory.