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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.

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.