Department of Anthropology
PAS building, room 2012
Götz Hoeppe
Associate Professor; Department Chair
Department of Anthropology
PhD Sociocultural Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin)
MSc Physics (University of New Mexico)
Vordiplom in Physics, BSc equivalent (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Mary Jackes
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: mkjackes@uwaterloo.ca
Background
Mary Jackes’ major interest is in the methods of bioarchaeology. She has done research in Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, France, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Spain and Tanzania.
Jasmin Habib
Anthropologist in Political Science
Jennifer Doucet
Administrative Manager; Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator
Office: PAS 2012
Phone: 519-888-4567 x32520
Email: j4doucet@uwaterloo.ca
Marissa Panton
MA Student
Marissa graduated this past spring from UW with a BA in Anthropology. She is interested in many aspects of anthropology, but particularly environmental anthropology and anthropology of science. Her research will focus on climate scientists and investigating the culture of their laboratory.
Martha Tildesley
MA Student
Martha entered the program in September 2018. She has been working as an archaeologist in the private archaeology sector. She is interested in a wide range of topics within anthropology and its sub-fields of archaeology and bioarchaeology in all parts of the world. Currently, she is interested in heritage legislation, post-colonial and decolonial theory, and the protection of Indigenous rights and materials.
Kennerley McKellar-Harries
MA Student
Kennerley received her undergrad from UW in anthropology, with a minor in psychology. She started in the MA program in fall 2019. Kennerley is interested in sociocultural anthropology; particularly linguistics, climate change, and indigenous issues.
Panchala Weerasinghe
MA Student
Panchala completed her BA (Honours) in Anthropology at University of Waterloo and entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in 2018. I am interested in bioarchaeology, osteology and archaeology of burial. My research aims to identify possible relations between burial treatment and pathology of individuals from Late Roman Greece.
Clara Mitchell
MA Student
Clara received her BA from University of Waterloo for Anthropology with a minor in Classical Studies. She is currently pursuing her MA for Public Issues Anthropology at the University of Waterloo. She has an interest in Great Lakes archaeology and hopes to study contact period sites within Ontario. She is interested in decolonialism, feminist archaeology, and indigenous knowledge production.
Chiara Williamson
MA Student
Chiara entered the program in September 2018. She is an archaeologist interested in Ontario archaeology, particularly in the Great Lakes region. Her interests are in pottery production from the Late Woodland period as well as issues concerning decolonization and reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
Sharmita Paul
MA Student
Sharmita entered in Public issues in Anthropology program as a graduate student in September 2019, after completing her B.S.S (Hons) and M.S.S in Anthropology at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Her research interest in sustainable water management, public health-related issues.
Emily Richards
MA Student
Emily completed her BSc in Honours Science at the University of Waterloo, with minors in Anthropology, Biology, and Medical Physiology. She began the Public Issues Anthropology program in Fall 2019. Her current interests are in medical anthropology, more specifically the concept of biological normalcy and how it relates to the health of Canadians.
Julia Tucciarone
MA Student
Julia started the program in September 2019 after finishing her BA at Western University. She is interested in bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, and anthropological theory. Her research will focus upon what we can learn about past peoples from chemical analysis of their teeth.
Serena Dibiase
MA Student
Serena entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in September 2019 after completing her undergraduate degree in Archaeology & Heritage Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her main interests include bioarchaeology and osteology and what we can learn from the skeletal remains of past peoples.
Tamara Graham
MA Student
Tamara completed her BA (Honours) with a double major in Archaeology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2017. She entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in September 2019. She is interested in bioarchaeology and osteology with a focus on the study of chronic and infectious diseases.
Jeffrey Coffin
MA Student
Jeff started the program in September 2018. He is interested in archaeology, bioarchaeology, and paleoanthropology. His research is aimed at studying the mobility of prehistoric people from a site in Southern France through isotopic analysis of their dental enamel.
Emily Hilts
MA Student
Emily completed her BA (Hons) in Anthropology at the University of Waterloo in 2018 with minors in French and History. She entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in 2019. She is interested in archaeology; particularly Arctic archaeology and Inuit cultures. Her research will focus on a lithic analysis comparing the stone tools from the Dorset culture and Pre-Dorset culture components from a site on Baffin Island.
Kate Elliott
MA Student
Kate entered the program in September 2018 after completing her BA (Hons) in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Her research is looking into the health of women experiencing homelessness in the local area, with a particular interest in combatting period poverty and reducing the stigma surrounding menstruation.
Jane Kang
MA Student
Jane completed her BA in Honours Anthropology at the University of Waterloo. She joined the Public Issues Anthropology MA program in September 2019. Prior to becoming an Anthropology Major, Jane was in the Faculty of Science (Biomedical Science and Biology). Her background in science has continued her interest in human health. For Jane’s thesis, her research will be on youth homelessness.
Elizabeth Rayner
MA Student
Elizabeth completed her BA (Honours) in Anthropology with a minor in East Asian Studies at University of Waterloo. She began the Public Issues Anthropology program in September 2018. She is interested in all fields of anthropology, but is focusing on relations between the public and the government regarding corrections. Other interests include constructed reality, ritual behaviour, food, displacement of agency, and restorative justice.
Elizabeth Lukashal
MA Student
A student of the program since Fall 2019, Elizabeth has a BA in archaeology and is interested in paleopathology and bioarchaeology. Her main research focus is on rare diseases and syndromes in the past, particularly the detection of subtle indicators of these conditions in skeletal remains and how conditions considered non-pathological could have impacted individual lived experiences.
Benjamin Scher
MA Student
Ben Scher completed his BA in Combined Social Sciences at Durham University in the UK and is currently pursuing an MA in Public Issues Anthropology here at the University of Waterloo. His MA research uses a qualitative focus to analyze the relationship between law enforcement and drug users who frequent supervised consumption sites in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver. In light of the current fentanyl epidemic in Canada, Ben is passionate about furthering public knowledge surrounding harm reduction strategies and producing research that can inform on progressive public policy initiatives such as supervised consumption sites.