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PhD Students
| Name, Contact | Field | Supervisor(s) | Research Keywords | Research Region | Year Entered Program | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Abrams, Nicholas nicholas.abrams@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Bianca Dahl | Race; Citizenship; Witchcraft; Labour activism; Religion; Political anthropology | South Africa | 2016 |
 | Akhtar Khan, Hadia hadia.akhtarkhan@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Tania Li | Remittances; Value; Class; Gender; Economic Anthropology | Pakistan | 2016 |
 | Alaica, Aleksa aleksa.alaica@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Edward Swenson | Human-Animal Interactions; Zoo Archaeology; Latin America; Relational Ontology | Peru | 2013 |
 | Alda, Kristina kristina.alda@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Hilary Cunningham (Scharper), Jesook Song | Post-socialism; Urban Anthropology; Architecture And Public Spaces; Civic Initiatives; Social Change | Czech Republic | 2011 |
 | Beach, Laura l.beach@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural/Medical Anthropology | Krista Maxwell, Katie Kilroy-Marac | Self-harm; Incarceration; Indigenous Feminisms; Decolonial Theory and Praxis; Medicalization / Pathologization of Lived Experience | Western Canada | 2016 |
 | Bikoulis, Peter peter.bikoulis@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Edward Banning | Landscape Archaeology; Digital Archaeology; Spatial Analysis (GIS); Social Network Analysis | Near East, Turkey | 2009 |
 | Bonduelle, Tessa | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Andrea Muehlebach, Monica Heller | Race And Class; Whiteness; Nationalisms; Citizenship; Migration; Neoliberalism; Political Anthropology | France | 2016 |
 | Bonyeme, Lyota lyota.bonyeme@mail.utoronto.ca | Social-Cultural Anthropology | Janice Boddy | Race & Ethnicity; Diaspora Studies; Migration; Globalisation; Corporeality; Nationalism; Urban Anthro; Aesthetics | Brazil | 2015 |
 | Cahn, Joel joel.cahn@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Tracy Rogers | Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology; Forensic Anthropology; Trauma; Violence | Canada, Portugal | 2009 |
 | Callaghan, Walter w.callaghan@mail.utoronto.ca | Medical Anthropology | Katie Kilroy-Marac | Ptsd; Mental Health; Gendered Identity; Military Masculinity; Stigma; Moral Injury; Subjective Experience | Canada | 2014 |
 | Campagnola, Elisabetta elisabetta.campagnola@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-cultural anthropology | Todd Sanders | Political anthropology, anthropology of work, transport, ethnography and archival research. | Tanzania (mainland), East Africa | 2014 |
 | Chakraborty, Kalyan Sekhar kalyan.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Heather Miller | Ceramic Residue; Ceramic Function; Diet; Trade; and Intra and Inter-regional Variations in Indus Civilization | India | 2013 |
 | Cook, Jessica jessicam.cook@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Bonnie McElhinny | Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous and Black Artists, Museum Spaces, Anti-Colonial and Anti-Oppressive Museum Education, Museum spaces and community engagement | Canada, USA, New Zealand, South Africa | 2014 |
 | Crago, Anna-Louise | Sociocultural | Christopher Krupa, Holly Wardlow | Armed Conflict/war; Violence; Gender; Labour; Kinship; Love | Central Africa | 2012 |
 | Dahl, Shayne A.P. shayne.dahl@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology | Janice Boddy | Anthropology of Religion; Ontology; Epistemology; Asceticism; Affect; and Activism | Japan, Native North America | 2012 |
 | Decter, Kate Course Instructor kate.decter@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Esteban Parra | First Nation Health; Aboriginal Health; Human Genetic Variation; Immunogenetics; Metagenomics; Environmental Genomics; First Nation Housing | Canada, Indigenous Populations | 2013 |
 | Demirci, Ferda Nur | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Andrea Muehlebach, V. Firat Bozcali | Indebtedness; Work and Labor; Development; Political Economy; Capitalism; Subjectivity | Turkey | 2018 |
 | Durazo, Frida Lona | Molecular Anthropology | Esteban Parra | Genetics of Pigmentation; Genetic of Iris Patterns; Genome-Wide Association Studies of Complex Traits | Europe | 2016 |
 | Falconer, Chantelle chantelle.leblanc@utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural | Christopher Krupa | Post-Neoliberalism; Livelihoods; State; Political Ecology | Ecuador | 2007 |
 | Feinig, Nicholas nick.feinig@utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Sandra Bamford, Shiho Satsuka | Gender; Economy; Labour; Kinship | Japan | 2013 |
 | Feltaous, Elisabeth e.feltaous@mail.utoronto.ca | Medical Anthropology | Krista Maxwell, Sarah Hillewaert | Indigenous Health; Addiction; Subjectivity; Inuit; Youth | Nunavut | 2016 |
 | Figueiredo, Camila Guarim c.figueiredo@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Edward Swenson | Landscape Archaeology; Historical Ecology; Amazonian Dark Earth; GIS; Lower Amazon; Tapajos; Ceramic and Lithics Analysis | Brazilian Amazon | |
 | Finestone, Erika erika.finestone@mail.utoronto.ca | Anthropology | Sandra Bamford, Bonnie McElhinny | Indigenous Peoples in Canada; Childcare; Customary Care; Urban Indigeneities; Kin Mobility; Child Welfare in the Neoliberal State | Canada | 2014 |
 | Frey, Bronwyn bronwyn.frey@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural | Joshua Barker, Andrea Muehlebach | platform labour, STS, political economy | Germany | 2016 |
 | Gagliardi, Connie connie.gagliardi@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural | Donna Young, Valentina Napolitano | Christianity and Religious Minorities; Materiality and Visuality; Sainthood and Marianism; Historicity; Affect Theory | Israel/Palestine | 2014 |
 | Gagne, Mathew Course Instructor mathew.gagne@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural | Naisargi N. Dave | Queer Anthropology; Science & Technology Studies; New Media & Communications; Postcolonial Cities; Affect Theory; Ethics | Lebanon | 2012 |
 | Gallo, Tiziana tiziana.gallo@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Liye Xie | Landscape Archaeology; Experimental Arch.; Groundstone Tech.; Lithic Raw Material Sourcing; Petrography; Use-Wear Studies; GIS | Northeast North America | 2016 |
 | Gilbert, Emily-Camille | Socio-Cultural | Hilary Cunningham (Scharper) | Medical Anthropology; Urban Anthropology; Poverty and Inequality in Canadian Mixed- Income Communities; Food Insecurity | Ontario | 2015 |
 | Giusto, Salvatore s.giusto@utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Andrea Muehlebach, Jesook Song | Commodification of Public Aesthetics; Formal / Informal Networking; Neoliberal Culture; Econ. Anthropology; Anthro. of Mass Media; Visual Anthro. | Europe, North America, Italy | 2011 |
 | Gonzalez Duarte, Columba Course Instructor columba.gonzalez@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural | Hilary Cunningham (Scharper) | Posthumanist Political Ecology; Science and Technology Studies | North America | 2010 |
 | Gordon, Dylan | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave, Shiho Satsuka | Wild Food Trade | Canada | 2009 |
 | Grigio, Veronica | Medical Anthropology | Holly Wardlow, Bianca Dahl | Public Health; Interculturalism; Indigeneity; Amazon; HIV/AIDS; Gender; Mental Health; Traditional Medicine; Sovereignty; Science & Tech. Studies; Translation; Post-Colonial Studies; Subjectivity | Peruvian Amazon | 2013 |
 | Grinberg, Omri o.grinberg@mail.utoronto.ca | Social-Cultural | Ivan Kalmar, Alejandro Paz | Human Rights; Conflict Areas; Borders & Mobility; Agency & Ethics; Historiography; Critical Theory; Interdisciplinary Methodologies | Israel/Palestine | 2012 |
 | Haak, Candis candis.haak@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Heather Miller | South Asian Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Interpretive GIS; Pilgrimage; Landscape Studies; Ritual Archaeology | South Asia | 2010 |
 | Handziuk, Natalia natalia.handziuk@mail.utoronto.ca | Anthropology | Edward Banning | Subsistence and Exploitation of Foodways; Urbanism; Rural Spaces; Craft Production; Domestic Organization; Regional Interaction | Jordan, Georgia | 2016 |
 | Hébert, William william.hebert@mail.utoronto.ca | Social-Cultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave | Incarceration; Gender; Trans Politics; Sovereignty; Care; Punishment; Morality; Ethics; Subjectivity | Canada, Brazil | 2013 |
 | Hird-Younger, Miriam miriam.hird.younger@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Bianca Dahl | Development; Participation; Trust; Post-Colonialism; Gender | Ghana | 2016 |
 | Holmes, Andrew andrew.holmes@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | David Begun | Paleoanthropology; Evolution; Hominoids; Pliopithecoids; Anthropoids; Fossils; Paleontology | Europe | 2015 |
 | Holyoke, Ken ken.holyoke@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Gary Coupland | Prehistoric archaeology, Northeastern North America, Hunter-gatherers, Lithic Quarrying and Sourcing, Human-landscape interactions, Place-making, Wabanaki ethnohistory and ethnography | Eastern Canada/Northern New England | 2017 |
 | Hopper, Courtneay courtneay.hopper@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology / Evolutionary Anthropology | Genevieve Dewar | Stable Isotopes; Paleoenvironmental and Dietary Reconstruction; Later Stone Age; Intro. Pastoralism; Migration; Social Change | South Africa | 2016 |
 | Jaworski, Sophia sophia.jaworski@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology | Jesook Song, Katie Kilroy-Marac | Everyday Chemicals and Toxins; Environmental Health; Feminist Anthropology; Inhumanisms and New Humanisms; Experimental Methods; Visual Anthropology; Canada | Toronto, Canada | 2015 |
 | Kendall, Chris chris.kendall@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Bence Viola, Michael Schillaci | Hybridization Genetics; Human Evolution; Primate Evolution; Neanderthals; Ancient DNA | 2017 | |
 | Kilius, Erica erica.kilius@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | David Samson | Human adaptation; evolutionary mismatch; sleep; circadian rhythms; health and disease; circumpolar populations | Arctic | 2018 |
 | Klass, Keren keren.klass@mail.utoronto.ca | Primatology | Shawn Lehman | Primate Conservation; Behaviour; Ecology | Southern Mexico | 2014 |
 | Komza, Klara klara.komza@mail.utoronto.ca | Bipedalism, Biomechanics, Human Evolution, Foot Evolution, Skeletal Variability, Primate Morphology | Bence Viola | Evolutionary Anthropology | 2017 | |
 | Langille, Justin justin.langille@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural Anthropology | Bonnie McElhinny, Andrea Muehlebach | Water, Water Security, Stewardship, Activism, Visual Ethnography, Photography | Southwestern Ontario, Canada | 2017 |
 | Levine, Rachel Course Instructor | Animal-human relationships and ethics; environment and inequality; mutual aid | ||||
 | Malabet, Fernando fernando.mercadomalabet@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Shawn Lehman | Primate Biogeography; Population Ecology; Landscape Genetics; Conservation Biology | Madagascar | 2017 |
 | Mantzios, George george.mantzios@mail.utoronto.ca | Social-Cultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave | Anthrohistory; infrastructure; defacement; political aesthetics; austerity; historicity; Cold War ruins | Greece | 2014 |
 | Masur, Lindi lindi.masur@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Gary Crawford | Food and Society; Agricultural Production and Consumption; Human-Plant Interactions; Paleoethnobotany | NE North America; Peru | 2012 |
 | Mayell, Stephanie stephanie.mayell@mail.utoronto.ca | Medical Anthropology | Krista Maxwell, Bianca Dahl | Transnational Labour Migration; Migrant Workers; Kinship; Mental Health & Well-being; Engaged Anthro.; Canadian Agriculture; Jamaica | Caribbean, Canada | 2016 |
 | Mayne, Hannah h.mayne@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural | Michael Lambek, Alejandro Paz | Gender; Ritual; The Body; Public Space; Place and Territory | Israel/Palestine | 2014 |
 | Medeiros, Matthew matthew.resendesmedeiros@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural Anthropology | Jack Sidnell, Monica Heller | Identity; Subjectivity; Epistemology; Subalternity; Modes of Dissent; Children; Socially Constructed Disability & Globalisation; Ed. & Power; Language; Code-switching | Brazil, Canada | 2016 |
 | Morrow, Giles Spence gspence.morrow@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Edward Swenson | Architectural Analysis; Space Syntax; Spatial Scale; 3D Digital Reconstruction; Photogrammetric Site & Artifact Documentation | Peru | 2010 |
 | Nahal, Nav nav.nahal@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural and Medical Anthropology | Sandra Bamford | Infertility; Complementary & Alt. Medicine; Assisted Repro. Tech.; Reproductive Body; Healing & Care; Kinship; Motherhood & Fatherhood | United States | 2015 |
 | Nicolas, Emilie emilie.nicolas@mail.utoronto.ca | Linguistic Anthropology | Monica Heller, Alejandro Paz | Nationalism; Language Ideologies; Post-Colonial Studies; Immigration; Race; International Relations | Canada, Haïti | 2012 |
 | Nixon, Kevin k.nixon@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave | Queer Anthro.; Transgender; Drag Queens/ Kings; Feminist; LGBTQ; Homonationalism; Multiculturalism; Urban; Performance; Critical Race Psy. | North America/Canada | 2009 |
 | O’Sullivan, Sarah Course Instructor s.osullivan@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural and Medical Anthropology | Bianca Dahl | HIV/AIDS; Post-conflict Reconstruction; Stigma; Development; Vulnerability; Humanitarianism; Political Violence; Subjectivities | Northern Uganda | 2014 |
 | Oh, Hyun Joo Sandy hyunjoo.oh@mail.utoronto.ca | Social-Cultural | Andrea Muehlebach | Global Education; Adolescence; Precarity; Care | South Korea | 2012 |
 | Palmer, Seth stp8g@virginia.edu | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave, Michael Lambek | Spirit Possession; Subject Formation; Feminist & Queer Theory; Historicity & Temporality; Rights Regimes; Relationality & (A)sociality; Shame | Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar | 2011 |
 | Pang, Celeste celeste.pang@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural & Medical Anthropology | Jesook Song, Naisargi N. Dave | Queer Anthro.; Urban Anthro.; Aging; Intimacy; Kinship; Sexuality & Gender; Housing; Regimes of Care | Canada | 2014 |
 | Pettit, Matthew matthew.pettit@mail.utoronto.ca | Medical/Social Anthropology | Michael Lambek | Alcohol Abuse; Mutual-Aid Movements; Medical Models and Authority; Ethics and Responsibility | France | 2011 |
 | Pokorny, Johanna Course Instructor | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Sandra Bamford | Anthropology Of Science; Science & Technology Studies; Laboratory Life | North America | 2012 |
 | Quinn, Hannah hannah.quinn@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Holly Wardlow, Cassandra Hartblay | Disability; Sexuality; Intimacy; Ethics; Consent; Care; Kinship; Crip Theory; Settler-Colonialism; Feminist Theory; Methodologies | Canada | 2017 |
 | Rahman, Oggni | Medical/Evolutionary Anthropology | Tracey Galloway | Contemporary Human Health and Biology; Biocultural; Chronic Disease; Epidemiology | North America | 2016 |
 | Ramsay, Malcolm S. malcolm.ramsay@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Shawn Lehman | Primate Biogeography; Conservation Biology; Landscape Genetics | Madagascar | 2016 |
 | Ranlett, Sarah Course Instructor sarah.ranlett@utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Michael Chazan | Upper Palaeolithic Symbolism; Technology of Representation; Rare Mineral Raw Material Economy | Western Europe (France) | 2010 |
 | Raza, Shozab shozab.raza@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Tania Li | Political & Economic Anthropology; Anthropology of Development; Social Theory; Agrarian Political Economy; Capitalism | Pakistan, South Asia | 2015 |
 | Reis, Marianna marianna.reis@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural Anthropology | Alejandro Paz, Francis Cody | Palestinian citizens of Israel; anthropology of citizenship; urban anthropology; infrastructure; mobilities; urban renewal; bureaucracy; identity and belonging | Israel/Palestine | 2015 |
 | Saadi, Sardar sardar.saadi@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural Anthropology | Tania Li, Andrea Muehlebach | Social Justice; Kurdish Movement; Welfare State; Urban Anthropology; Autonomy; Municipality Politics | Turkey, Kurdistan | 2014 |
| Scheck, Paulina paulina.scheck@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Max Friesen | Archaeology of the Contemporary World; Arctic Urbanism; Assemblage Theory; Archaeological Theory; Cyborgs | Central Canadian Arctic | 2015 | |
 | Selig, Keegan keegan.selig@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Mary Silcox | Early Primates; Palaeoanthropology; Dental Morphology & Topography; Micro-CT; Eocene | North America | 2017 |
| Sgambetterra, Adriana | Social-cultural | Ivan Kalmar | religion and nationalism, populism, migration, Islam(ophobia), anthropology of religion, anthropology of the state, critical discourse analysis | Italy | 2018 | |
 | Smeltzer, Eve eve.smeltzer@mail.utoronto.ca | Primatology | Julie Teichroeb | Behavioural Ecology; Leadership and Consensus; Group Decision-Making; Conflicts of Interest | Uganda | 2016 |
 | Smith, Ashley ashleyc.smith@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Tracy Rogers | Osteology; Skeletal Histology; Trauma; Forensic Anthropology / Archaeology | North America | 2014 |
 | Solanki, Aakash | Socio-Cultural | Francis Cody, Todd Sanders | Sc. & Tech Studies; Anthropologies of Computing; State; Knowledge; Media; Software Studies; Data Studies | India, South Asia | 2017 |
 | Thornton, Taylor taylor.thornton@mail.utoronto.ca | Archaeology | Max Friesen | Landscape; Community Archaeology; GIS; Spatial Analysis; Cartography; Remote Sensing & Geophysical Prospection | Canadian Arctic | 2015 |
 | Tilleczek, Elliott elliott.tilleczek@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Naisargi N. Dave | Queer activism; Queer anthropology; Digital Media; STS; Sensory Ethnography | Canada & U.S | 2018 |
 | Tremblay, Jessika | Sociocultural Anthropology | Tania Li, Joshua Barker | Digital/Media/Virtual/Urban; Social Media; Netnography; Internet; Networks; Brand; Online/Offline Communities; Neoliberal Subjectivities | Indonesia | 2011 |
 | Vandenbeld Giles, Melinda | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Sandra Bamford | Mothering; Homelessness; Women’s Studies; Maternal Theory; Mother/Child Poverty; Ethno.; Public Policy; Political-Economy; Creative Writing & Arts-Based Methodology | Canada | 2009 |
 | Ward, Devin devin.ward@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Bence Viola, Mary Silcox | Skeletal Biology; Growth & Development; Bony Labyrinth; Phenotypic Plasticity; Developmental Instability; Lombard Italy; Bioarchaeology; Human Osteology | Italy | 2016 |
 | Williams, Sarah sarah.williams@mail.utoronto.ca | Medical Anthropology | Janice Boddy, Holly Wardlow | Indigenous Rights; Women’s Rights; Maternal Health; Mexico | Mexico | 2014 |
 | Yasui, Emma | Archaeology | Gary Crawford | Lithic Technology; Starch; Use-Wear; Jomon Period; Human-Environment Interactions; Hokkaido | Japan | 2011 |
 | Youssef, Joseph joey.youssef@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Girish Daswani, Simon Coleman | Transnationalism; Diaspora; Pilgrimage; Place-Making; Embodiment; Coptic Christianity | Egypt, USA | 2011 |
 | Zelenka, Antony antony.zelenka@mail.utoronto.ca | Sociocultural anthropology | Shiho Satsuka | Indigeneity; science studies; sovereignty & development; environmental governance; traditional ecological knowledge; infrastructure; toxicity; sensory studies | Quebec, Japan | 2018 |
Masters Students
| Name, Contact | Field | Supervisor(s) | Research Keywords | Research Region | Year Entered Program | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Beke, Tyla | Archaeology | Edward Banning | Near Eastern Arch.; Arch. Method; Stratigraphy; Neolithic Era; Ain Ghazal | Jordan | 2016 |
 | Gibb, James | Evolutionary/Medical Anthropology | Bicultural Anthro.; LGBTQ+ Health; Adolescent Growth; Non-Communicable Disease Risk; DOHaD | North America | 2016 | |
 | MacDonald, Clara clara.macdonald@mail.utoronto.ca | Biocultural/Medical Anthropology | Tracey Galloway | Indigenous Health; Nutrition; Growth and Development; Collaborating Community-based Research; Food Insecurity | Canada | 2017 |
 | Poirier-Poulin, Samuel samuel.poirierpoulin@mail.utoronto.ca | Evolutionary Anthropology | Julie Teichroeb | Primatology; Angolan Colobus; Communication; Social Systems; Group Movement | Lake Nabugabo, Uganda | 2017 |
 | Smith, Emily V. emilyvirginia.smith@mail.utoronto.ca | Biocultural and Medical Anthropology | Tracey Galloway | Developmental Origins of Health And Disease; Biocultural Approach; Nutrition; Growth and Development; Indigenous Health; Epigenetics; Diabetes; Food Security; Pregnancy; Settler-Colonialism | Canada | 2017 |
 | Tait, Sam | Sociocultural Anthropology | Tania Li, Krista Maxwell | Settler-Colonialism; Indig. Jurisprudence & Rights Litigation; Aboriginal Title; Land Claims; Knowledge | Canada | 2016 |
 | Vleming, Kaitlyn kaitlyn.vleming@mail.utoronto.ca | Socio-Cultural/Medical Anthropology | Krista Maxwell | Women’s Health & LGBTQ Health; Gender; Hormone Imbalance | Canada | 2015 |