SSHRC grants Insight award to UWaterloo Anthropology alumnus, Dr. James Waldram
Check out the September 14th article in Maclean's, HMS Terror: How the final Franklin ship was found for a quote by our very own Robert Park!
Check out the September 17th podcast of Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald for an interview with Robert Park titled, Future research on HMS Terror.
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.
For more information on ANTH 372, contact Dr. Chris Watts.
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.
Four graduate students and five undergraduate students, along with Prof. Liston, attended the Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association (BARFAA) meetings in Michigan, October 17-18.
The Department of Anthropology's very own Dr. Robert Park and Dr. Douglas Stenton played a pivotal role in the recent historical discovery of the HMS Erebus.
See today's Waterloo Record for more on Dr. Park's role in the discovery: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4912625--nice-find-by-university-of-waterloo-archeologist-s-team-preceded-erebus-discovery/
The Anthropology department is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members. Seçil Daǧtaș, an expert in the anthropology of religion and the anthropology of gender and feminism, and Christopher Watts, an expert in the archaeology of monumentality, landscape practices, materiality and relational ontologies, particularly here in the lower Great Lakes region, will be joining the department as Assistant Professors.