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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, Christopher Krupa	Conspiracies, labour activism, race, populism, 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 Course Instructor aleksa.alaica@mail.utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Edward Swenson	Zooarchaeology, Human-Animal Interactions, Power and Politics, Isotope Analysis, Pastoralism, Temporalities	Peru	2013
	Alda, Kristina kristina.alda@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-cultural Anthropology	Jesook Song, Hilary Cunningham (Scharper)	Urban Anthropology; Post-socialism; Architecture; Post-industrial Landscapes; Materiality	Czech Republic	2011
	Beach, Laura l.beach@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural, Medical	Katie Kilroy-Marac, Krista Maxwell	Settler-Colonialism; Indigenous Feminisms; Incarceration; Crime and Deviance; Health and Healing; Law and Legal Systems	Canada	2015
	Bessen, Jacob jacob.bessen@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural	Valentina Napolitano, Andrea Muehlebach	Migration, Hospitality, Catholicism, “the Mediterranean,” Abandonment, Kinship and Neoliberalism, Value Accumulation and Extraction	Italy	2019
	Bianchi, Rachele Andrea rachele.bianchi@mail.utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Liye Xie, Heather Miller	Archaeometallurgy; Cultural Interaction; Technological Studies; Bronze Metallurgy; Bronze Age	Central Asia; North and Northwest China	2018
	Bonduelle, Tessa	Socio-Cultural Anthropology	Andrea Muehlebach, Monica Heller	Migration and Asylum Systems; Social Work; Citizenship; Race and Class; Nationalisms; Neoliberalism	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
	Brunson, Wesley wesley.brunson@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural Anthropology	Naisargi N. Dave	Sociality, Spain, Barcelona, Literature, Otherness, Self & the Body, Cities, Memoir, Ethnographic Writing, Creativity, Activist Social Projects, Intimacy	Canada, America, Spain	2015
	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 Course Instructor 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
	Decter, Kate 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
	El Helou, Maya maya.elhelou@mail.utoronto.ca	Social Movements, Queer Studies	Amira Mittermaier, Naisargi N. Dave	Queer, Social movements, Feminist, Revolution, Middle East	Middle East And North Africa	2018
	Feinig, Nicholas nick.feinig@utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural Anthropology	Sandra Bamford, Shiho Satsuka	Gender; Economy; Labour; Kinship	Japan	2013
	Finestone, Erika erika.finestone@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural Anthropology	Sandra Bamford, Bonnie McElhinny	kinship/relationality; Indigenous sovereignty; everyday resistance/resurgence; the child welfare system; settler-colonialism; queer theory; critical race theory; decolonial methods	Canada	2014
	Frey, Bronwyn bronwyn.frey@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural	Joshua Barker, Andrea Muehlebach	platform labour, STS, political economy	Germany	2016
	Fujita, Takanari takanari.fujita@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural	Joshua Barker, Waqas Butt	City; Building(s); Materiality; Architecture; Planning; State; Socialism; More-than-human; Ontological anthropology.	Vietnam	2018
	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
	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
	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
	Hird-Younger, Miriam Course Instructor 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 Course Instructor 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 Course Instructor 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
	Howe Bukowski, Nicholas nicholas.howebukowski@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural Anthropology	Girish Daswani, Simon Coleman	Soccer, Evangelical Christianity, Pentecostalism, Relationality, Sociality, Movement, Revelation, Atmospheres, Affect, Globalization, English Premier League, Settler-Colonialism	British Columbia, England, Nigeria	2018
	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
	Kamalova, Gyuzel gyuzel.kamalova@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural	Cassandra Hartblay, Janelle Taylor	Disability; Kazakhstan; Central Asia; Stigma; Institutionalization; Care; Post-Soviet	Kazakhstan, Central Asia	2019
	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
	Laperrière-Désorcy, Louis-Vincent lv.laperriere@mail.utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Max Friesen	Contact Archaeology; Collaborative Archaeology; Zooarchaeology; Ichthyozooarchaeology; Experimental Archaeology	North-Eastern America, Québec	2019
	Lee, Patrick patrickadam.lee@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural	Shiho Satsuka, Lena Mortensen	Politics of Knowledge; Settler-Colonialism; Science Studies; Conservation; Anthropology of Tourism; Human Origins and Palaeoanthropology	East Africa	2018
	Levine, Rachel Course Instructor rachel.levine@utoronto.ca	Social/Cultural, Medical	Hilary Cunningham (Scharper)	Human-animal relations; Income inequality, social exclusion, and health; Environmental disaster and dislocation; Dogs.		2014
	Liu, Yang yangliu.liu@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-cultural Anthropology	Todd Sanders, Shiho Satsuka	Algorithm; Digital Data; Future; Politics	North America	2019
	Lucas, Yasmine	Sociocultural Anthropology	Janice Boddy	Personhood, Kinship, Identity, History, Traces, Affect Theory, Nationalism	Poland	2018
	Majeed, Abdulla a.majeed@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural Anthropology	Alejandro Paz, V. Firat Bozcali	political anthropology; displacement; anthropology of state; exile; time and temporality; hope and nostalgia.	Middle East; Iraq; Jordan	2018
	Maki, Neda neda.maki@mail.utoronto.ca	Medical Anthropology	Tracey Galloway	Indigenous health; hospital-based care; health care delivery; addiction and mental health; autism and complex needs; residential schools	Northern Canada	2019
	Mantzios, George george.mantzios@mail.utoronto.ca	Social-Cultural Anthropology	Naisargi N. Dave	Anthrohistory, infrastructure, Cold War ruins, political aesthetics, defacement, historical redress, modernity	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	Bianca Dahl	Subjectivity, emotion, slavery, necropolitics, labour migration	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
	McKinnon, Leela l.mckinnon@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	David Samson	Evolution of Human Sleep; Genetics of SleepPhenotypes; Social Networks; Evolutionary Mismatch; Health Disparities; Urban-rural Gradient and Industrialization; Indigenous Communities	Equatorial regions	2018
	Mercado-Malabet, Fernando fernando.mercadomalabet@mail.utoronto.ca	Primatology	Shawn Lehman	Primate Biogeography, Population Ecology, Landscape Genetics, Conservation Science	Madagascar	2017
	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
	Pang, Celeste celeste.pang@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-cultural and Medical Anthropology	Naisargi N. Dave, Jesook Song	Socio-Cultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Aging; Disability; Gender; Ethics; Care; Queer Anthropology	Canada	2014
	Pokorny, Johanna	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
	Ramsay, Malcolm S. Course Instructor 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
	Reyes, Kaleigh kaleigh.reyes@mail.utoronto.ca	Ecology, Diet, Evolution, Functional Morphology	David Samson	Primatology, Animal Behaviour, and Ornithology in terms of Psittacines.	Senegal, Uganda, USA, Canada	2019
	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
	Shaw-Müller, Kyle k.shaw.muller@mail.utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Edward Swenson	Archaeology of Everyday Life; Domestic Architecture; Political Landscape; Ancient Urbanism; Quantitative Analysis; Spatial Analysis	Peru, Belize	2018
	Sheldon, Victoria Course Instructor v.sheldon@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-Cultural and Medical Anthropology	Michael Lambek, Francis Cody	Personhood and Subjectivity; Medical Anthropology; Anthropology and Philosophy; Vitality; Care; Ecology	Kerala, India	2012
	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
	Smith, Nicholas nickjosh.smith@mail.utoronto.ca	SCL	Christopher Krupa	Urban mobilities, Space and place, Affect, Precariousness, humanitarian logic	Greece	2018
	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
	Stead, Samantha sam.stead@mail.utoronto.ca	Primatology	Julie Teichroeb	Maternal Physiology; Infant Development; Infant Care	Uganda	2018
	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
	Van Dyk, Janita janita.vandyk@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural	Shiho Satsuka	Anthropology of food; Temporality; Alternative food networks; Environment; Ecology and Biodiversity; Climate change; Italy	Italy	2017
	Vargas, Jorge Isaac jorge.vargasgonzalez@mail.utoronto.ca	Socio-cultural Anthropology	Valentina Napolitano, Christopher Krupa	Anthropology of the state; Visual anthropology; Violence; Disappearances; Violent deaths; Morgue.	Mexico / Latin America	2020
	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 Course Instructor sarah.williams@mail.utoronto.ca	Medical Anthropology	Janice Boddy, Holly Wardlow	Indigenous Rights; Women’s Rights; Maternal Health; Mexico	Mexico	2014
	Wilson, Joseph joseph.wilson@utoronto.ca	Linguistic and Semiotic	Sandra Bamford	Critical Metaphor Analysis;Science Studies; Discourse Analysis; Artificial Intelligence; Institutional Ethnography	Ontario	2019
	Wollmann, Jessica j.wollmann@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	Michelle Cameron, Bence Viola	Biomechanics, Skeletal biology, Human paleobiology, Osteology	North America	2019
	Yasui, Emma	Archaeology	Gary Crawford	Lithic Technology; Starch; Use-Wear; Jomon Period; Human-Environment Interactions; Hokkaido	Japan	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
	A.R. McCoy, Cristina cristina.mccoy@mail.utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Edward Banning	Cultural Resource Management; Descendant Communities; Political Economics; Ethnography; Settler-Colonialism; Statecraft and Policy; Materiality: Indigenous Rights; Place-Making; Layered Ontologies	Ontario, Canada	2019
	Abbas, Noor noor.abbas@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	David Samson	Evolution of Sleep, Sleep architecture, REM sleep, Dreams, Social Network Analysis	Canada	2020
	Ali, Fatema Fatema.ali@mail.utoronto.ca	Medical Anthroplogy	Janice Boddy, Cassandra Hartblay	Chronic Disease; Diabetes; Racism; Women’s Health; Virtual Healthcare; COVID-19 Pandemic; Applied Anthropology; Public Health Policy	Toronto	2019
	Anderson, Karyn karyn.anderson@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	Julie Teichroeb	Primatology; Sexual Selection; Parental Investment; Natal Attraction; Infant Care	Uganda	2019
	Beke, Tyla	Archaeology	Edward Banning	Near Eastern Arch.; Arch. Method; Stratigraphy; Neolithic Era; Ain Ghazal	Jordan	2016
	Belmore, Darci darci.belmore@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary and Medical Anthropology	Tracey Galloway	Indigenous Health; Public Health Policy; Health Services Access; Transportation; Climate Change	Northern Canada	2019
	Boehm, Tomoya	Sociocultural Anthropology	Andrea Muehlebach	Organizational Hierarchy, Social movements, Protests, Civil Rights, Development, Political Economy	China	2020
	Brent, Katie katie.brent@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	Michelle Cameron	Biomechanics; Bioarchaeology; Skeletal Biology; Human Osteology; Medical Imaging Research	North America	2020
	Cantwell, Tyler t.cantwell@utoronto.ca	Archaeology	Gary Crawford	Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany, East Asia, Jomon, Satsumon, Hokkaido, Human Environment, Resilience	Japan	2019
	Checholik, Carly carly.checholik@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary & Medical Anthropology	Tracey Galloway	Food Security; Double Burden of Malnutrition; Indigenous Health; Public Health Policy; Applied Anthropology	Canada, Northern Ontario	2019
	Cuneo, Natasha	Sociocultural Anthropology	Alejandro Paz	Social Media; Internet; Personal Branding; Surveillance Capitalism; Online/Offline Communities; Neoliberal Subjectivities	North America	2018
	Frappier-Brinton, Tristan tristan.frappier.brinton@mail.utoronto.ca	Evolutionary Anthropology	Shawn Lehman	Lemur Conservation; Ecology; Forest Fires	Madagascar	2019
	Gibb, James	Evolutionary/Medical Anthropology		Bicultural Anthro.; LGBTQ+ Health; Adolescent Growth; Non-Communicable Disease Risk; DOHaD	North America	2016
	Zakaria, Anam anam.zakaria@mail.utoronto.ca	Sociocultural Anthropology	Christopher Krupa, Waqas Butt	Violence, conflict, oral histories, inter-generational memory, diaspora relations, master narratives, state violence	South Asia	2019