Caroline Stampliaka
Student
Master of Arts in Anthropology (MA)
Department of Anthropology
UBC is home to the second oldest anthropology program in Canada, founded in 1947 by Harry Hawthorn. The first MA in anthropology was awarded in 1954. By 1960, six anthropology MAs had been awarded and the first doctorates were awarded in 1970, making UBC the second university in Canada to offer a PhD in anthropology. In 1976, the Museum of Anthropology moved into its new quarters designed by Arthur Erickson and the Department took up residence in an enlarged and renovated space next door.
Affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, the Museum of Anthropology is world-renowned for its collections, research, teaching, public programs and community connections. The MOA maintains an impressive collection focusing on the First Nations of British Columbia. It provides educational and research opportunities for students and faculty with several faculty members holding cross-appointments in the MOA.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Alaica, Aleksa | Other agricultural sciences; Archaeology; 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 |
| 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 Phillimore | Other studies in human society, n.e.c.; militarism; drug policies and cultures; Science Policy; nuclear weapons; ethnography |
| Hayat, Zahra | 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; Anthropocene studies, 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, Power, resistance and justice, Multispecies ethnography, Anthropological engagements with fiction, 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Shneiderman, Sara | Indigenous issues; Disaster response and preparedness; Citizenship; migration; Indigenous issues, Disaster response and preparedness, Citizenship, Migration |
| Speller, Camilla | Anthropology; Archeological Data Analysis; Molecular Genetics; Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics); Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics); Animal Domestication; Bioarchaeology; Environmental Archaeology; Marine Ecosystems |
| Weston, Darlene | Archeological Data Analysis; Bioarchaeology; Biological Anthropology; Osteoarchaeology; Paleodemography; Paleopathology; Archeological Data Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Biological Anthropology, Osteoarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleopathology |
| Zeweri, Helena | Anthropology; Mobility; migration; Critical refugee studies; settler colonialism; Anthropology of care, policy, social movements, empire |