Anthropology

UBC offers graduate study in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology (including legal, medical, and ecological anthropology, oral and expressive culture, religion, globalization, and applied anthropology), linguistic anthropology, anthropological archaeology, biological anthropology, and museum studies. Faculty research interests include North America, Asia (Russia, India, Japan, Korea and China), Mesoamerica, South America, Oceania, Europe, and Africa.

Name Research Interests
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