Graduate Forum 2022
Welcome to the 6th Annual Grad Forum where our Public Issues Anthropology MA students present their research.
This event will include a Meet & Greet with grad students and professors.
Welcome to the 6th Annual Grad Forum where our Public Issues Anthropology MA students present their research.
This event will include a Meet & Greet with grad students and professors.
Join us for this year's Sally Weaver Award presentation and guest lecture! Guest speaker, Elif Sari, Ph.D. in Anthropology (Cornell 2021) with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be presenting a lecture titled: Uncertain Waiting, Uncertain Methodologies: Anthropology of Asylum and Borders
Congratulations to 2014 Public Issues Anthropology Masters graduate Thomas Siek on recently completing his PhD through the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
The members of the Anthropology department were saddened to learn of the passing on September 4, 2019, of Professor Emeritus Dr. Thomas Abler, at the age of 78.
The members of the Anthropology department were saddened to learn of the passing of one of its most distinguished and productive retired members, Dorothy Counts. The following obituary nicely captures what an extraordinary life she lived:
Dorothy Ellen Ayers Counts
08 January 1937 – 27 October 2018
Dorothy came into this world on 08 January 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, and departed on 27 October 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer’s. She made the transition easily and peacefully surrounded by the love of her family.
Three happy researchers received a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) award to establish the University of Waterloo Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab).
Götz Hoeppe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, was awarded the 2017 Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology for his article “Working Data Together: The Accountability and Reflexivity of Digital Astronomical Practice”, which appeared in the journal Social Studies of Science.
Spring 2017 Convocation
Dr. Adrienne Lo and Dr. Rachel ten Bruggencate congratulated our newest alumni in the SLC at yesterday's Convocation. These are some of the photos that were taken.
On Thursday, October 9, 2014, Dr. Robert Park delivered an exciting public lecture in the ML Theatre of the Arts entitled, "Finding Franklin's Ships and other remnants of the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition."
This lecture was video recorded and can now be seen on YouTube below.