The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Carey Matthews and Yingjia Wang are the recipients of this year’s Sally Weaver Award.
Join us for this year's Sally Weaver Award presentation and guest lecture!
Guest speaker, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, BA in Anthropology (Florida State University) with an MA and PhD in Anthropology (Indiana University) will be presenting a lecture titled: Injury, Disease, and Death in Early Byzantine Greece: The Story from Chryssi Island
All are welcome!
To start the term off right, we would like to invite you to our Meet the Profs event taking place Thursday, September 22nd from 4:30-6:00pm in the upstairs room at the Grad House.
Join us for an evening of introductions, catching up, and community building for Undergraduate students, Graduate students and Professors.
Dr. Alexis Dolphin (Anthropology) and Dr. Andrew Doxey (Biology) are recipients of the 2022 Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Fund.
Their project is titled "Reconstructing the origins and evolution of infectious diseases through ancient DNA metagenomics"
Congratulations Karen Rueb (graduate) and Aparajita Bhattacharya (undergraduate) on receiving the Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships Master's (SSHRC).
Each year, the department of anthropology recognizes one or two outstanding and well-rounded students who have shown exceptional commitment to the department and the University of Waterloo as a whole.
Congratulations Jessica Rae!
Congratulations to Water Institute member Craig Janes, professor and director of the School of Public Health Sciences, along with WI colleague Jennifer Liu, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, and their research team, who have been awarded funding through a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant
A new study on primate behaviour sheds light on a previously little-known life stage of male mantled howler monkeys, adding to our knowledge of lone male behavioural ecology.
See the full story here.
Congratulations to Tamara on receiving the OGS Award
Kate is researching the challenges that women experiencing homelessness face when trying to manage their health.