Meredith Diane Mantooth
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Overview
Our MA program provides students with a broad knowledge of anthropological theory and research methods. Students build their research and writing skills in their graduate courses, culminating in the preparation of a significant piece of scholarly writing, which constitutes their MA thesis. Interdisciplinary contacts are encouraged, and links are maintained with departments and programs such as Asian Studies, the Institute of Asian Research, Linguistics, History, Geography, Sociology, and the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies.
What makes the program unique?
We are the second oldest anthropology program in Canada, with more than six decades of research and teaching to our name. Our students are supported by a dedicated staff and faculty and access to outstanding research resources, such as the Museum of Anthropology and Laboratory of Archaeology. Today, UBC anthropology faculty and students conduct original research throughout BC and around the world.
Program Structure
The M.A. is based upon a combination of coursework, research, and a thesis. Compared to the Ph.D., the M.A. is a structured course of study. Students must successfully complete 30 credits:
- ANTH 500 History of Anthropology (6)
- ANTH 506 Current Research in Anthropology (3)
- an advanced anthropological methods course (3)
- two 3-credit courses outside of the student's sub-disciplinary specialty; Students are encouraged to take at least three credits of these in Anthropology (6)
- at least 6 credits of elective courses
- a 6-credit thesis, which is initiated after submitting an approved thesis proposal
Quick Facts
Program Components Coursework + Thesis required
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Supervision
Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.
Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for this program
Applicants should browse faculty profiles and indicate in their application who they are interested in working with. No commitment from a supervisor prior to applying is necessary, but contacting faculty members is encouraged.
Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors
These videos contain some general advice from faculty across UBC on finding and reaching out to a supervisor. They are not program specific.
This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.
- Alaica, Aleksa (human-animal interactions; Moche Perceptions and Use of Animals; Food Security and Interregional Interaction during Wari State Expansion; Colonization, Diet and Animal Management; human-animal interactions, Moche Perceptions and Use of Animals, Food Security and Interregional Interaction during Wari State Expansion, Colonization, Diet and Animal Management)
- Barnett, Kristen (intersection of Indigenous and western science; research and data sovereignty; Indigenous feminisms; decolonizing; reframing archaeology; intersection of Indigenous and western science, research and data sovereignty, Indigenous feminisms, decolonizing, reframing archaeology)
- Blackburn, Carole (relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler states; how Indigenous nations assert their rights and sovereignty in struggles over land and political recognition, and the consequences for Indigenous people of engaging states in legal and political arenas.)
- Bloch, Alexia (migration; Gender; Eurasia; Russia; ethnography; migration, gender, Eurasia, Russia, ethnography)
- Creighton, Millie (Japan, Japanese descent communities (Nikkei or Nikkeijin), Korea, Inter-Asian Relations, Identity, Consumerism, Popular and Mass Culture, Gender, Minorities, Work and Leisure)
- Gordillo, Gaston (Space and violence, affect, ruins and ruination, critical theory and continental philosophy, object-oriented ontologies, resistance to agribusiness, Latin America, Argentina, the Gran Chaco)
- Gusterson, Hugh (militarism; drug policies and cultures; Science Policy; nuclear weapons; ethnography; militarism, drug policies and cultures, science policy, nuclear weapons, ethnography)
- Hayat, Zahra (Pharmaceutical pricing; Quality and intellectual property; Pharmaceutical pricing, Quality and intellectual property)
- Heatherington, Tracey (Environmental anthropology; Critique of neoliberalism; Critical approaches to energy transition; Sustainable food systems; Human and cultural perspectives on the climate and nature emergency; Political ecology of nature conservation; Multispecies ethnography; Anthropocene studies; Ethnographic writing and reflexivity; Environmental anthropology, Critique of neoliberalism, Critical approaches to energy transition, Sustainable food systems, Human and cultural perspectives on the climate and nature emergency, Political ecology of nature conservation, Multispecies ethnography, Anthropocene studies, Ethnographic writing and reflexivity)
- Jing, Zhichun (Archaeology; Anthropology; Early China; Shang Civilization; Archaeological Science; Early Urbanism; Geoarchaeology; Data Science in Archaeology; Ceramic Petrography; Jade; AI and Archaeology; social sustainability; Archaeology, Anthropology, Early China, Shang Civilization, Archaeological Science, Early Urbanism, Geoarchaeology, Data Science in Archaeology, Ceramic Petrography, Jade, AI and Archaeology, Social Sustainability)
- Kamat, Vinay Ramnath (Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Dispossession; East Africa; ethnography; Extractive Industry; Global Health; India; Malaria; marine conservation; Medical Anthropology; Outsourcing of Clinical Trials; political ecology; Tanzania; Global Health and Emerging Diseases, Dispossession, East Africa, Ethnography, Extractive Industry, Global Health, India, Malaria, Marine Conservation, Medical Anthropology, Outsourcing of Clinical Trials, Political Ecology, Tanzania)
- Kramer, Jennifer (Visual culture and art of the First Nations)
- Levell, Nicola (interdisciplinary folds of anthropology, theoretical museology, material culture and critical curatorial studies)
- Martindale, Andrew (Indigenous Archaeology; Northwest Coast; Oral Traditions; Spatial Analyses; Archaeology and the Law; Political economy; Radiocarbon Dating; Indian Residential Schools; Northwest Coast British Columbia, settlement patterns, economics, social organizations Archaeology and indigenous oral records Colonialism and culture contact, European-Indigenous interactions, historical archeology, political economy)
- Menzies, Charles (Indigenous studies; Natural Resource Management; Maritime Anthropology; Western Europe; Ethnographic Film; Classical Marxism; Indigenous Studies, Natural Resource Management, Maritime Anthropology, Western Europe, Ethnographic Film, Classical Marxism)
- Mhishi, Lennon (Borders and sovereignity; Culture and migration; Settler colonialism and decolonization; Afterlives of slavery and colonialism; Contemporary forms of exploitation, forced labour and human rights; Borders and sovereignity, Culture and migration, Settler colonialism and decolonization, Afterlives of slavery and colonialism, Contemporary forms of exploitation, forced labour and human rights)
- Moore, Patrick (Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender, First Nations Languages, Literacy and Orality, Oral Traditions, Dene (Athbaskan Languages and Cultures), Codeswitching, Gender, Indigenous Activism, and the Anthropology of Media)
- Muehlmann, Shaylih (Environmental politics, linguistic anthropology, drug trafficking, indigeneity, water scarcity, the anthropology of the awkward, US-Mexico borderlands, Mexico)
- Robertson, Leslie (Indigenous and settler historiographies, colonial regimes of difference, spectacle and narrative, and political histories of resistance in settler nations, afterlife of historical colonialism, forms of power and representation in the context of urban marginalization (drug use, sex work, health, and violence))
- Rosenblum, Daisy (multi-modal documentation and description of indigenous languages of North America, with an emphasis on methods, partnerships, and products that contribute to community-based language revitalization)
- Rowley, Susan (repatriation; museums; material culture; cultural heritage; arctic archaeology; heritage management; repatriation, museums, material culture, cultural heritage, arctic archaeology, heritage management)
- Sari, Elif (transnational sexualities; migration; asylum; humanitarianism; queer and critical race theory; transnational sexualities, migration, asylum, humanitarianism, queer and critical race theory)
- Shneiderman, Sara (Indigenous issues; Disaster response and preparedness; Citizenship; migration; Indigenous issues, Disaster response and preparedness, Citizenship, Migration)
- Speller, Camilla (Archeological Data Analysis; Molecular Genetics; Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics); Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics); Animal Domestication; Bioarchaeology; Environmental Archaeology; Marine Ecosystems; Archeological Data Analysis, Molecular Genetics, Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics), Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics), Animal Domestication, Bioarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Marine Ecosystems)
- Turin, Mark (Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Language Rights and Policies; Language Interactions; Political Culture, Society and Ideology; Bella Bella; Bhutan; First Nations; Heiltsuk; Indigeneity; Nepal; Sikkim; Tibet; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), Lexicography and Dictionaries, Language Contact and Linguistic Changes, Language Rights and Policies, Language Interactions, Political Culture, Society and Ideology, Bella Bella, Bhutan, First Nations, Heiltsuk, Indigeneity, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet)
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