Here are the titles of Public Issues Anthropology theses and major research papers, the student-authors, and their supervisors. You can also read about our current MA students and their research interests.
2022
Caitlin Brast
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Glazing Over Differences: Picuris Pueblo and Rio Grande Glaze Ware [Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
Grace Chan
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Are Metric Methods Really User-Friendly? A Methodological Study of Sex Estimation Techniques for the Talus and Calcaneus [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Jennifer Cullison
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A History Cast in Stone: Geochemical Chert Sourcing Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) in Southern Ontario [Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
Laurel McInnis
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Transition Analysis as a Solution for Fragmentary Remains: Estimating Age-at-Death for a Skeletal Collection from Gurat, France [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Ivelina Petrova
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Migration Narratives from Third Wave Bulgarian Immigrants in London, Canada: Internalization of Balkanism and its Effects on Citizenship [Supervisor: Adrienne Lo]
Kagan Pittman
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Pagan Community Online: Social Media Affordances and Limitations in Religio-Political Sociality [Supervisor: Seçil Daǧtaș]
Kaithleen Tan
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A Trace Element Analysis of Lead in Human Tooth Enamel from Wadi Faynan 100, Jordan [Supervisor: Alexis Dolphin]
Sarah Tomkins
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Responsible Representation and Collaboration in Supporting Indigenous Maternal Health in Canada [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
2021
Serena Dibiase
- An Osteological Study of the Individuals Buried in Grave 3 at Wadi Faynan 100, Jordan [Supervisor: Alexis Dolphin]
Tamara Graham
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Sex Without the Head or the Hips: The Inferences Made on Bone and the Use of the Lower Body to Estimate Sex [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Emily Hilts
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Caribou Hunting at Mingo Lake: A Comparative Study of Pre-Dorset and Late Dorset Hunting Methods [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Jane Kang
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Multiculturalism: The Un/making of an In/visible Un/problematic Citizen [Supervisor: Adrienne Lo]
Elizabeth Lukashal
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Differential Diagnosis of Complex Conditions in Paleopathology: A Mutational Spectrum Approach [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Kennerley McKellar-Harries
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Class Divides: An Ethnographic Study of Social Service Workers in Canada [Supervisor: Adrienne Lo]
Clara Mitchell
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Negative Spaces: Bringing Indigenous women to the forefront of archaeological research in the lower Great Lakes region [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Marissa Panton
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Making Sense of Video Instruction: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Following a YouTube Croissant Making Tutorial [Supervisor: Goetz Hoeppe]
Sharmita Paul
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Water Conservation Practices and Asymmetrical Power Relations in Southwestern Ontario [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Emily Richards
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An Anthropological Perspective on the Experiences of Osteoarthritis in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and South Yorkshire, England [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Julia Tucciarone
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A Comprehensive analysis of Dental Remains from the Early Bronze Age I site of Wadi Faynan 100, Jordan [Supervisor: Alexis Dolphin]
2020
Jeffrey Coffin
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A Mobility Study of Neolithic People from Roquemissou in Southern France using Strontium Isotopes [Supervisor: Alexis Dolphin]
Kate Elliott
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The System is Built to Exclude Them”: Using Sociality to Manage Health Amongst Women Experiencing Homelessness [Supervisor: Seçil Daǧtaș]
Benjamin Scher
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Biopower, Disciplinary Power and Surveillance: A Qualitative Analysis of the Lived Experience of Drug Users in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Martha Tildesley
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The Heritage Inquisition: A Comparative Analysis of Archaeological Heritage Legislation from Around the World [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Panchala Weerasinghe
- Skeletons in Wells: Post-Mortem Treatments in Roman Eretria, Greece [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Chiara Williamson
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Late Woodland Pottery Production in Essex County, Ontario: Evidence from the Puce Site [Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
2019
Jennifer Dauphinais
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The Precariousness of the Non-Human Other: Situating Lyme Disease Within a Multispecies Framework [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Holly Krause
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Dorset Use of Caribou Bones at Mingo Lake (LdFa- 1): A Faunal Analysis and Application of 3D Technology for the Recovery of Bone Tool Blanks [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Andrew Lawson
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Connaissance and Savoir-Faire: A Chaîne Opératoire Perspective on the Lithic Industries at the Iler Earthworks (AaHr-22), Essex County, Ontario [Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
Mallory Moscovitch
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Bird Monitoring and New Media: An Anthropological Exploration [Supervisor: Goetz Hoeppe]
Emily Schaljo
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Bioarchaeology in Greece: Breathing Life into the Early Helladic and Archaic Skeletal Assemblages from Klenia [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Gillian Seymour
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Reconstructing the Life Histories of the Individuals Buried in the Rock-cut Cave Church of St. Georges, in Gurat, France [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
2018
Stuart Anderson
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iNaturalist: Understanding Biodiversity Through a Digital Medium [Supervisor: Goetz Hoeppe]
Yuet Chan
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Living as a Self-sufficient Second-class Citizen: Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ Journey to Permanent Residency in Canada [Supervisor: Adrienne Lo]
Leah Govia
- Beneath the Hype: Engaging the Sociality of Artificial Intelligence [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Jacqueline Meijer
- Exploring the Origins and Mobility of the Medieval Monastic Inhabitants of a Cave Church in Gurat, France using Strontium Isotope Analysis [Supervisor: Alexis Dolphin]
Amelia Pilon
- Crossing the Cuesta: A GIS Analysis of Intra-Site Settlement Patterns at the Mt. Albion West Paleoindian Site (AhGw-131)[Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
Alecsandra Romanisin
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Imagining Greece: Sensing Antiquity in Two Athenian Museums [Supervisor: Maria Liston / Seçil Daǧtaș]
Dana Thacher
- Salvaging on the Coast of Erebus Bay: An Analysis of Inuit Interaction with Material from the Franklin Expedition [Supervisor: Robert Park]
- For more information, read about Dana's Story
2017
Stefan Jovanovic
- Ruptures in Canada's Nationalist Narrative: Situating Toronto's Former-Yugoslav Immigrants in teh Indigenous-Settler Context [Supervisor: Seçil Daǧtaș]
- For more information, read about Stefan's Story
Stuart Karrow
- Ontario's Archaeological Curation Crisis - Twenty Years Later [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Amy King
- The Effects of Collagen Rehydration on Postmortem Fracture Morphology: Implications for the Perimortem Interval [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Matthew Seguin
- Digging Online: Crowdfunding for Archaeology [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Amanda Suko
- Practice Molds Place: Communities of Pottery Production and Situated Identities at Location 3 (AgHk-54) [Supervisor: Christopher Watts]
- For more information, read about Amanda's Story
Erin Van Der Meulen
- View from a Body: Situating the Lived Experience of Painful Obsessions and Compulsions [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
2016
Alisha Adams
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Developmental Defects in Ancient Context – Causations of Cleft Palate in the Athenian Agora [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Ava Giachino
- Distinguishing Burials in Thebes, Greece: Using MNI and MLNI as a Differentiation Technique [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Samantha Lawrence-Nametka
- North End Narratives: Grid-Group Analysis for Environmental Justice in Hamilton, Ontario [Supervisor: Goetz Hoeppe]
Danielle Nadeau
- 4150 Cousins: What 7 DNA Ancestry Tests Can Tell You About Your Kin [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Jennifer Rickert
- Printing the Past: 3D Printing and Archaeology [Supervisor: Robert Park]
2015
Marya D'Alessio
- Together in Death: A Study of Late Bronze Age Double Burials in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Ashley Piskor
- Working Towards Collaborative Archaeology : Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeological Topics and Research Questions in Nain, Labrador [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Jarred Rundle
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Masked by Fire: A Pilot Study Analyzing Perimortem Ballistic Trauma in Burnt Remains [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Brian Schram
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Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
2014
David Gadzala
- The Preservation and Stewardship of Archaeological Sites in the Boreal Forest: A Public Issues Approach [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Kaleigh Eichel
- Identification of Hybridization in the Nasal Cavity of Baboon Hybrids, Papio Anibus X P.Cynocephalus, as and Analogue for Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens Hybrids [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Elizabeth Penney
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceptions of Ecotourism in Algonquin Provincial Park [Supervisor: Nancy Barrickman]
Mithila Ruthralingam
- Scripting the Right to be Canadian: Immigrant Experiences, Policies, and Practices in Southern Ontario [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
Thomas Siek
- A Study in Paleo-Oncology: On the Identification of Neoplastic Disease in Archaeological Bone [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
2013
Stephanie Scott
- Perceptions of Repatriation: an Anthropological Examination of the Meaning Behind Repatriating Human Remains in Canada [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
Kira Turner
- Living on the Edge: Old Colony Mennonites and Digital Technology [Supervisor: Jennifer Liu]
2012
Emily Graff
- Mycenaean Occupants of Ancient Kallithea: understanding a population's health, culture and lifestyle through bioarchaeological analysis [Supervisor: Maria Liston]
2011
William Gizas
- The Role of Anthropology: the need for a public contribution of current archaeological theory in the issues surrounding the human-environment relationship [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Rowland Robinson
- Between the Academy and the Grassroots: Discourses on Decolonization and Indigenous Revolution in Modern North America [Supervisor: Jasmin Habib]
Trieneke Gastmeier
- Raising the Hemline: Towards a Feminist Anthropology of Beauty Practices [Supervisor: Jasmin Habib]
Annette Klein
- Migration, Religion, Identity, and Integration of Greek-Canadians [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Julie Sumerta
- Interpreting Balinese Culture: Representation and Identity [Supervisor: Thomas Abler]
Katreena Baker
- Cultural Knowledge Systems: Synthesizing our knowledge of knowledge using grounded theory [Supervisor: Thomas Abler]
Adam Vuylsteke
- Renewing Public Anthropology: Exploring the Current State of Anthropology in a Digital World [Supervisor: Gray Graffam]
Rachel Cripps
- What Happened on 9/11? Anthropological Insights about the Rise of Alternative Theories [Supervisor: Jasmin Habib]
2010
Pauline Goetz
- Preserving Arctic Archaeology in the 21st Century: Threats of Climate Change [Supervisor: Robert Park]
Kimberley Ann Campbell
- Boundaries, Identity, and Conflict: Experiencing Mobility, Autonomy and the Creation of a Sense of Self [Supervisor: Thomas Abler]
Juliet O'Farrell
- The Volunteering Self: Ethnographic Reflections on 'The Field' [Supervisor: Jasmin Habib]
Tasin Zaman
- Food, Identity and Symbolic Metaphors in the Bengali South Asian-Canadian Community [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Ligia Grandys
- Pink Ribbon Culture: Anthropological Reflections [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
2009
Katie Blaszkiewicz
- Child Nutrition in Malawi: An Anthropological Approach to sociocultural Construction of Normative Feminity [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Kevin Nixon
- Are Drag Queens Sexist? Female Impersonation and the Cultural Construction of Normative Femininity [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Consuelo Griggio
- Women and Tourism in White Harbour, Newfoundland: Filling the Gap Between Tradition, Innovation and Globalization [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Scott Moore
- The Gift of Policing: Understanding Image and Reciprocity [Supervisor: Thomas Abler]
Matthew Theoret
- The Sidney Effect: Competitive Youth Hockey and Fantasy Relationships [Supervisor: Harriet Lyons]
Jill Johnson
- Dogs, Cats and Their People: The Place of the Family Pet and Attitudes About Pet Keeping [Co-Supervisors: Maria Liston and Anne Zeller]
2008
Kayleigh Platz
- Popping My Collar: Applying Anthropology to the Field of Design and Marketing [Supervisor: Gray Graffam]