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Graduate Faculty

Graduate faculty are appointed at all three campuses, and their campus affiliations are indicated below. Professors Emeriti, Cross Appointments, Anthropologists in Other Departments , Status Only Appointments and Adjunct Faculty may sit on graduate student committees, but they cannot supervise Anthropology graduate students.

Associate Graduate Faculty (indicated below by Associate Member) are Contractual Appointments and can advise Master's Graduate Students Only. They cannot supervise Ph.D. students.

 

Core Graduate Faculty

 

Name, Contact

Office

Field

Bamford, Sandra

Associate Professor, UTSC

(416) 287-7301

bamford@utsc.utoronto.ca

MW 386 (Main)

AP 334

Social cultural anthropology, gender, kinship, ritual embodiment, environmentalism, anthropology of science, globalization; Melanesia

Banning, Edward B.

Professor

(416) 978-2315

ted.banning@utoronto.ca

AP 518B

Archaeology, Middle Eastern prehistory, Neolithic to Early Bronze, archaeological method and theory, archaeological survey; Jordan, Levant

Barker, Joshua D.

Associate Professor

(416) 946-3305

j.barker@utoronto.ca

AP 228

Social cultural anthropology, violence & power, crime & policing, theories of modernity, anthropology of technology, nationalism, urban studies; Indonesia, South East Asia

Begun, David R.

Professor

(416) 978-8850

begun@chass.utoronto.ca

AP 418

Paleoanthropology, functional anatomy, systematics, comparative primate anatomy, human origins, paleobiogeography West Eurasia, Africa

Boddy, Janice

Professor, Graduate Chair

(416) 978-3230

janice.boddy@utoronto.ca

AP 270

Social cultural anthropology, gender, embodiment, symbolism, religion, medical anthropology, colonialism; Sudan, Africa, Middle East

Chazan, Michael

Professor

(416) 971-2684

michael.chazan@utoronto.ca  

AP 500

Paleoarchaeology, lithic analysis, history of archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology; Near East, France, South Africa

Cody, Francis

Assistant Professor, UTM/Asian Institute

(416) 946-8988 (Main)

(905) 569-4295

francis.cody@utoronto.ca 

MCIS 269S (Main)

HSC 358

Social cultural anthropology, social and semiotic theory, political economy of representation,  written language, activism, development, social movements, media-studies, postcolonial state; Tamilnadu, India, South Asia

Coupland, Gary

Professor

(416) 978-2442

coupland@chass.utoronto.ca

AP 540A

Archaeology, complex hunter-gatherers; Western North America, North West Coast

Crawford, Gary W.

Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3783 (Main)

(416) 946-0653

g.crawford@utoronto.ca  

HSC 356

AP 522

Archaeology, agricultural origins, paleoethnobotany, human ecology; Eastern North America, Japan, China, Korea

Cunningham, Hilary

Associate Professor

(416) 978-0472

hilary.cunningham@utoronto.ca

LA 306 (Trinity College)

Borders and boundary-making, environment and anthropology, contested environments, theories of nature, wilderness and society; anthropology of animals (wildlife-human conflicts).

Danesi, Marcel

Professor

(416) 585-4412

marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca

Birge Carnegie, Rm. 26 (VC)

 

Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, youth culture; Italy, France, North America

 

Daswani, Girish

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-2892 (Main)

(416) 946-0652

daswani@utsc.utoronto.ca  

MW 380 (Main)

AP 242
Religious change, ritual, transnationalism and diaspora, politics of culture; Ghana, London

Dave, Naisargi N. 

Assistant Professor

(416) 978-6050

naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca

AP 206

 

Activism, affect, sexuality and gender, ethics, social emergences, queer anthropology, intimacy, animal-human relationships, postcolonial cities; India

Friesen, T Max

Professor

(416) 978-4505

max.friesen@utoronto.ca

AP 400A

 

Archaeology, zooarchaeology, hunter-gatherers, culture contact, ethnohistory; North America, Arctic

 

Gillison, Gillian

Associate Professor

(416) 978-4006 (Main)

(416) 208-2650

gillison@trinity.utoronto.ca

TC 36 (Trinity College)

MW 282
Study of myth and ritual in non-literate societies, religion in the history of Anthropological theory, psychoanalysis, peoples of Oceania

Kalmar, Ivan

Professor

(416) 585-4419  

i.kalmar@utoronto.ca

228 (VC)

 

Jews and Muslims, orientalism, cultural studies, semiotic and linguistic anthropology

 

Krupa, Christopher

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-2893

chris.krupa@utoronto.ca
MW 376

AP 522

Social and cultural anthropology, state and para-state, capitalism, labor and value, political and collective violence, race politics, historical anthropology; postcolonial Latin America, Andes, Ecuador

Lambek, Michael J.

Professor, UTSC/Canada Research Chair

(416) 287-7312

lambek@utsc.utoronto.ca

MW 284

AP 314

Social and cultural anthropology, hermeneutics, ritual, medical anthropology, ordinary ethics, historicity, person and subjectivity; Africa, Madagascar, Europe

Lehman, Shawn M

Associate Professor

(416) 978-4003

shawn.lehman@utoronto.ca

AP 404A

Primatology, conservation biology, biogeography, evolutionary ecology; Madagascar

Li, Tania M

Professor, Canada Research Chair

(416) 946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

AP 424

 

Economic anthropology, development and gender, theory, cultural studies; South East Asia

 

Luong, Hy Van

Professor

(416) 978-0652

(416) 946-8985

vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca  

AP 336

MCIS 264S

Language, ideology and political economy, gender and social structure; East and Mainland South East Asia, Vietnam

McElhinny, Bonnie S.

Associate Professor

(416) 946-3587

bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca 

AP 364A

Linguistic anthropology, feminist anthropology, gender, socialization, ideology and political economy, stratified reproduction, work; USA, Canada, Philippines

Miller, Heather M L

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3741 (Main)

(416) 946-3320

heather.miller@utoronto.ca

HSC 346

AP 236

Archaeology, prehistory and history complex societies, ancient technology, material culture, social organization, regional inter-connections, agriculture; South Asia

Mortensen, Lena

Associate Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-4812

mortensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
MW 384

Cultural anthropology, heritage, anthropology of archaeology, tourism, representation, material culture, globalization and development; Central America, Honduras

Muehlebach, Andrea

Assistant Professor, UTM

(905) 569-4851 (Main)

(416) 946-0122

andrea.muehlebach@utoronto.ca   

HSC 392

AP 332

Socio-cultural anthropology; anthropology of the state and citizenship; ethics and personhood; neoliberalism; labour, value, and affect; welfare; European public culture; Italy.

Napolitano, Valentina

Associate Professor

(416) 978-2754

v.napolitano@utoronto.ca

AP 218

Subject formation, alternative modernities, affect, transnational migration, gender and psychoanalysis, health and religious movements, Catholicism; urban Mexico and Italy

Parga, Joyce

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-4827 (Main)

(416) 946-0652

j.parga@utoronto.ca  

 

MW 382

AP 242

 

Biological anthropology, reproductive strategies, molecular genetics, sperm competition, female dominance, ringtailed lemur

Parra, Esteban J.

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3889 (Main)

(416) 946-0652

esteban.parra@utoronto.ca   

 

HSC 352

AP 242

 

Biological anthropology, molecular anthropology, human genetics, biomedical science; Americas

Paz, Alejandro

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-2891

alejandro.paz@utoronto.ca
MW 372
Language and Ethnicity, Media and Publics, Translation and Mediation; Israel in the Middle East

Pfeiffer, Susan K

Professor

(416) 978-4004

susan.pfeiffer@utoronto.ca

 

AP 528

 

Biological anthropology, skeletal biology of past peoples; Southern Africa, North East North America

Rogers, Tracy

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-5449

tracy.rogers@utoronto.ca

HSC 400

 

Forensic anthropology: sex determination, human variation in modern populations, crime scene analysis

 

Sanders, Todd

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3778 (Main)

(416) 946-0056

todd.sanders@utoronto.ca

HSC 390

AP 334

Social anthropology, anthropological theory, knowledge and epistemology, African witchcraft and globalization, transparency & accountability, climate change

Satsuka, Shiho

Assistant Professor

(416) 978-7787

s.satsuka@utoronto.ca

AP 340

Globalization, capitalism, work, subjectivity, environment, nature, science, knowledge production, cultural translation, tourism, popular culture, gender; Japan, North America

Sawchuk, Lawrence A.

Associate Professor, UTSC

(416) 287-7347 (Main)

(416) 946-0056

sawchukl@utsc.utoronto.ca  

MW 316

AP 332

Biological anthropology, genetic demography, medical anthropology, statistics & computers; Gibraltar, eastern Canada

Schillaci, Michael A.

Associate Professor, UTSC

(416) 287-7328 (Main)

(416) 946-0653

schillaci@utsc.utoronto.ca

MW 340

AP 522

Anthropological primatology, bioarchaeology, public health

Sellen, Daniel W.

Professor

(416) 978-8112

dan.sellen@utoronto.ca   

 

AP 350

 

Evolutionary biology, nutritional ecology, and global health consequences of young child feeding and care practices.

Sidnell, Jack

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3776 (Main)

(416) 946-0056

jack.sidnell@utoronto.ca

HSC 302

AP 334

Linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, philosophy of language, children, grammar & interaction, gaze, gesture, creoles; Caribbean

Silcox, Mary

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-5132 (Main)

(416) 946-0652

msilcox@utsc.utoronto.ca
MW 388 (Main)

AP 242
Evolution, anatomy, and ecology of plesiadapiforms

Smith, David G.

Associate Professor, UTM

(905) 828-3784 (Main)

(416) 946-0653

dg.smith@utoronto.ca  

NB 211

AP 522

Archaeology, ceramics, agricultural origins; Northeast North America

Song, Jesook

Associate Professor

(416) 946-3587

jesook.song@utoronto.ca

AP 208
Socio cultural anthropologist of contemporary urban transformation and welfare issues including homelessness, youth unemployment, single women's housing, and psychological health support system; East Asia, particularly South Korea

Swenson, Edward

Assistant Professor

(416) 946-5186

edward.swenson@utoronto.ca  

AP 504

Archaeology, complex societies, theory and method, religion and ideology; Andes, Latin America

Turner, David H.

Professor

(416) 978-6909

dhturner@sympatico.ca  

Rm. 35 (TC) Angel’s Roost

Religion and spirituality, methodology; Australia, Canadian arctic

Wardlow, Holly

Associate Professor

(416) 978-2199

hwardlow@chass.utoronto.ca  

AP 234

Medical anthropology, feminist anthropology, international health, gender and sexuality, HIV/AIDS; Papua New Guinea

Yao, Alice

Assistant Professor, UTM

(905) 569-4380

alice.yao@utoronto.ca
HSC 348

AP 422

Archaeology; China and mainland Southeast Asia; complex societies, intercultural exchange and imperialism, mortuary ritual, and material culture


Active Emeriti, Associate Members, Status Only & Cross Appointments

Name, Contact

Office

Field

Antze, Paul (Associate Member, Status Only)

Associate Professor, York University

(416) 736-2100 x 77094

pantze@yorku.ca


York U, Social Sciences McLaughlin Bldg.
Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology

Clark, Dylan (Associate Member)

Assistant Professor, UTM

(905) 828-5469

dylan.clark@utoronto.ca

HSC 354
Cultural anthropology, gifts and commodities, criminality/legality, neo-liberalism, Whiteness, youth, cuisine
Clark, Terence (Status-Only)

Curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization

(819) 776-8300

terence.clark@civilization.ca
100 Laurier St., Gatineau, QC

Western Canadian Archaeology

Coleman, Simon (Cross Appointment)

Professor, Centre for the Study of Religion/Jackman Humanities Institute

(416) 978-4788

simon.coleman@utoronto.ca
JHB, 170 St. George St.

Evangelical and charismatic Christianities, creation science, pilgrimage, chaplaincies and intersections between religious and medical discourses, ritual, language, aesthetics, material culture, intersections and tensions between religious and political discourse; Sweden, the UK, Nigeria.
Cummings, Maggie (Associate Member)

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-2699

mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca
MW 380
Social cultural anthropology, genders and sexualities, embodiment, morality, consumption, popular culture, race and modernities; Melanesia

Dei, George (Cross Appointment)

Professor, OISE

(416) 923-6641 x 2513

(416) 978-0460

gdei@oise.utoronto.ca

OISE 12-242
Developmental education, international antiracism, ethnography research in schools, indigenous knowledge, anti-colonial thought; West Africa, Canada
Dewar, Genevieve (Associate Member)

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 287-7352 (Main)

(416) 946-3596

genevieve.dewar@utoronto.ca

MW 342

AP 422
Bio-archaeology, marginal environments, hunter-gatherers, origins of modern human behaviour; southern Africa
Dutour, Olivier J., (Status Only)

Director, d'Études à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études Laboratoire de Paléoanthropologie de l'EPHE

olivier.dutour@ephe.sorbonne.fr
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - La Sorbonne
Biological anthropology, skeletal and dental biology; bioarchaeology; forensic anthropology; paleopathology.

Forni, Silvia (Associate Member, Status Only)

Associate Curator, World Cultures

silviaf@rom.on.ca

Royal Ontario Museum

Social anthropology, material culture, art, gender; Africa, Cameroon

Gibbs, Alison (Associate Member, Cross Appointment)

Senior Lecturer, Statistics

(416) 946-7589

alison.gibbs@utoronto.ca
SS 5016A

Gilbert, Andrew (Associate Member)

Assistant Professor, UTM

(905) 569-4995 (UTM)

(416) 946-0122 (St. George)

andrew.gilbert@utoronto.ca

KN 208

AP 332

International Intervention, Anthropology of the State/State-Building, Political Anthropology, Nationalism and History, Socialism/Post-Socialism, Humanitarianism, European Studies; Bosnia-Herzegovina/Southeastern Europe
Gunz, Phillip (Status Only)

Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

gunz@eva.mpg.de
Dept. of Human Evolution, Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig, Germany
Developmental and evolutionary changes in growth patterns and morphology of modern humans, their relatives and fossil ancestors.
Harrison, Timothy (Cross Appointment)

Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

(416) 978-6600

tim.harrison@utoronto.ca

BF 418


Complex Societies, Near Eastern Archaeology, Bronze & Iron Age Civilizations, Urbanism, Ethnicity, Exchange Networks, Ceramic Analysis, Archaeological Method/Theory

Heller, Monica (Cross Appointment)

Professor, OISE

(416) 978-1987

monica.heller@utoronto.ca

CREFO, 6th Fl, OISE Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, anthropology of education, bi/multilingualism; Francophone Canada

Jennings, Justin (Status Only)

Associate Curator, World Cultures

(416) 586-5729

justinj@rom.on.ca

Royal Ontario Museum Archaeology; Latin America, Peru

Klassen, Pamela (Cross Appointment)

Professor, Centre for the Study of Religion

(416) 585-4573

p.klassen@utoronto.ca

222 Northrop Frye Hall (VC) Social cultural anthropology, Christianity, women & religion, biomedicine; North America
Knappett, Carl (Cross Appointment)

Associate Professor, Art

carl.knappett@utoronto.ca

Aegean Bronze Age political economies and geopolitics; Minoanisation in the Cyclades, Dodecanese and Asia Minor; Minoan pottery; ceramic fabrics and technologies; material culture studies, ecological psychology and Peircean semiotics; regional interaction and social network analysis
Latta, Martha A.

Associate Professor Emerita, UTSC  

(416) 946-0122


latta@utsc.utoronto.ca
AP 72/73

Archaeology, prehistory and historical materials analysis, computer methods; Canada, Eastern North America, Ontario
Lee, Richard B.

Professor Emeritus

(416) 978-4008

richardb.lee@utoronto.ca
NC 105B Social-cultural anthropology, political economy, ecology, hunters & gatherers, indigenous rights, medical anthropology, AIDS; Africa, North America
Levin, Michael D.

Associate Professor Emeritus

mlevin@chass.utoronto.ca


Social cultural anthropology, ethnicity, nationalism, human rights; West Africa

Maher, Lisa

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

maher@berkeley.edu



UC Berkeley


Prehistoric Archaeology, social complexity, origins of agriculture, lithic analysis;  Near East
Michelaki, Kostalena (Status Only)

Associate Professor, McMaster University

(905) 525 9140, ext. 23913

michela@mcmaster.ca
McMaster University
Human technological decision-making and the factors that affect it in the long term, through the interdisciplinary analysis of archaeological ceramics

Mittermaier, Amira (Associate Member, Cross Appointment)

Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Religion

(416) 946-3347

amira.mittermaier@utoronto.ca

JHUMINST 332
Social cultural anthropology, religion, dreams and prophecy, Islam; Egypt
Moffat, Tina (Status Only)

Associate Professor, McMaster University

(905) 525-9140 ext. 23906

moffatcs@mcmaster.ca
McMaster University
Child health and nutrition, environmental health, urban ecosystems; South Asia, Canada
Munson, Marit (Status Only)

Associate Professor, Trent University

(705) 748-1011 ext. 7503

maritmunson@trentu.ca
DNA C218
Trent University
Southwest art and archaeology
O'Neill, Kevin Lewis (Cross Appointment)

Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Religion

(416) 978-7050

kevin.oneill@utoronto.ca
JHUMINST 301
Neo-Pentecostal Christianity, Cities and Citizenship, Genocide and Violence, Gender and Masculinities, Neoliberalism; Latin America

Schwarcz, Henry P. (Status Only)

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

(905) 525-9140

schwarcz@mcmaster.ca

McMaster University Stable isotope geochemistry, geochronology, palaeodiet

Shen, Chen E. (Associate Member, Cross Appointment)

Associate Curator, World Cultures

(416) 586-5647

chen.shen@utoronto.ca

Royal Ontario Museum
Asian palaeolithic & human evolution, lithics, technology & material culture of prehistoric & Bronze Age China, urbanization

Simich, Laura (Status Only)

Scientist, Social Equity & Health Research

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Anthropology

(416) 535-8501 x 7618

laura_simich@camh.net

Suite 300, CAMH,   455 Spadina Ave. Psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, immigrant and refugee mental health
Smith, Gavin A.

Professor Emeritus

(416) 946-3324

gavin.gav@gmail.com
AP 232
Social anthropology, livelihood and political expression, global/local interfaces, political economy and historical realist theory; West Europe, Latin America

Williamson, Ronald F. (Associate Member, Status Only)

Chief Archaeologist, Archaeological Services

(416) 966-1069 x 228

RWilliamson@iasi.to

Archaeological Services
528 Bathurst St.
Environmental  archaeology; Great Lakes region
Wu, Yiching (Associate Member, Cross Appointment)

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies

(416) 946-5110

yiching.wu@utoronto.ca
Robarts Library #14133 (14th Fl)


Historical anthropology, critical social theory, populism and social protest, modern Chinese history, Chinese socialism and postsocialism, and politics of historical knowledge.
Young, Donna (Associate Member)

Assistant Professor, UTSC

(416) 208-2650

donnayoung@utsc.utoronto.ca
MW 282


Anthropology of religion and pilgrimage, anthropology of academic processes, ethnography of memory

Zubrow, Ezra B.W. (Associate Member, Status Only)

Professor, SUNY-Buffalo

(716) 645-2414 x 146

zubrow@buffalo.edu

State University of New York at Buffalo Human ecology and space, GIS, origin of household, origin of music, geography of social policy; North Europe and Finnish Arctic