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Robert W. Park
Seçil Daǧtaș
Alexis Dolphin
Götz Hoeppe
Anthropology | Cross-appointed with Sociology and Legal Studies Department
Contact: 519-888-4567 x42553, ghoeppe@uwaterloo.ca
PhD Sociocultural Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin)
MSc Physics (University of New Mexico)
Vordiplom in Physics, BSc equivalent (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Adrienne Lo
Jennifer Liu
Christopher Watts
Russell Adams
Email: rbadams@uwaterloo.ca
Mark S. Dolson
Office: PAS 2017
Email: msdolson@uwaterloo.ca
Nic Hayes
Office: PAS 2013
Email: nhayes@uwaterloo.ca
Mary Jackes
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.
David Lubell
Email: dlubell@uwaterloo.ca
Andrew Lyons
Email: a2lyons@uwaterloo.ca
Harriet Lyons
Email: hlyons@uwaterloo.ca
Robert MacDonald
Background
Robert MacDonald is the Managing Partner of Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI), an Ontario-based heritage consulting firm. With offices in Toronto and Burlington, ASI employs around seventy full-time professionals and one hundred seasonal field staff. Dr. MacDonald has been with ASI since 1982.
Douglas Stenton
Email: dstenton@uwaterloo.ca
Thomas Abler
Email: tsabler@uwaterloo.ca
Dorothy Counts
Email: countsd@shaw.ca
Matthew Hill
Email: mhhill@uwaterloo.ca
Anne Zeller
Email: azeller@uwaterloo.ca
Jasmin Habib
Julie Kate Seirlis
Jennifer Doucet
Office: PAS 2012
Phone: 519-888-4567 x42520
Email: j4doucet@uwaterloo.ca
Alice Xu
Alice graduated from the University of Toronto (Scarborough) with a HBSc. Double majoring in computer science and socio-cultural anthropology. She started in the program this fall, and her research interests include science and technology studies, software development, and ethnomethodology.
Menda Tesfaye-Visser
Menda did her undergrad here at UW in anthropology with a minor in cultural identities. She is now interested in pursuing anthropology and development, specifically in the longevity of development practices and healthcare.
Karen Rueb
Karen completed her BA (Honours) at the University of Waterloo, majoring in Anthropology and French with a minor in Russian and East European Studies. She entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in September 2021. She is interested in exploring the history of anthropology, ethnography, and women’s travel writing, and the relationships between them.
Laura Bolt
Email: lbolt@uwaterloo.ca
Yingjia Wang
Yingjia started her master program of Public Issues Anthropology in 2021 after years working experience in the global design industry. She has an educational background of BE Industrial Design in China and Art & Visual History in Germany. She is interested in the interconnection between sociocultural anthropology, design, and technology.
Thomas Siek
Email: tsiek@uwaterloo.ca
Amanda Suko
Office: PAS 2017
Email: asuko@uwaterloo.ca
Jessica Clarke
Jessica did her undergrad at Wilfred Laurier University in Archaeology and now continues her education with a Masters in Bioarcheology here at the University of Waterloo. She is from Kingston, Ontario, and loves travelling and fantasy novels.
Bonnie Glencross
Email: bglencross@wlu.ca
Christina Saoud
Christina Saoud graduated with a BA in Anthropology and is finishing an MA in Religious studies. At the Anthropology department of the University of Waterloo, she hopes to utilize a feminist intersectional approach to war and refugee/(im)migration theories. As a Syrian national herself, she hopes this work can help her community as well as provide a wider understanding of how refugees/(im)migrants construct their sense of self and home.
Aparajita Bhattacharya
Aparajita entered the Public Issues Anthropology program in Fall 2022 after graduating with her BA in Honours Anthropology from Waterloo. Her Master's research in biological anthropology will focus on aDNA studies and bioarchaeology, and she is also interested in the application of biocultural approaches to studying human experience in the past.
Shannon Brandreth
Shannon entered the Public Issues Anthropology program after receiving their Bachelor of Social Sciences in Anthropology at the University of Ottawa. They are currently interested in research concerning maritime archaeology, as well as preservation and conservation efforts in archaeology.
Isabel Classen
Isabel Clasen completed her undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Waterloo in 2022 and has returned for a Master’s in the same field. She is interested in vaccine hesitancy and resistance.
Veronica Ferreri
Veronica Ferreri is a Global Marie Curie Fellow at the Dept of Humanities in Venice's University of Ca' Foscari and a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Her MSCA project Archivwar - Archives in Times of War - examines the centrality of the archive of legal documents in the life of Syrian families living in Europe. She works at the intersection of Social Anthropology and Migration Studies with a focus on exile and displacement, solidarity and vernacular humanitarianism, and bureaucracy and documents. She gained her PhD from SOAS University of London in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin between 2018 and 2021. Her PhD thesis entitled "A state of permanent loss: war and displacement in Syria and Lebanon" examines the experience of loss and survival in the aftermath of revolution and war and it was awarded with the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by BRISMES in 2019. Her work appears in Citizenship Studies, Allegra Lab, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Camila Font
Recognizing language as powerful, Camila is currently interested in anthropology as political storytelling interrogating settled conceptions of a single reality, with the potential to inspire its publics to act for community.
Amanda Kubiak
Amanda received her undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in combination with Ancient Studies. She has experience in CRM in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, with interests of expanding her fieldwork experience elsewhere. Starting in Fall 2023, Amanda is continuing her education here at the University of Waterloo under Dr. Alexis Dolphin. She has interests in pathology and sub-adult remains.
Wynne Manning
Wynne completed her undergrad at the University of Waterloo with BSc in Health Studies. Her research interests are science and health information, ethnography, public perception, and public health. She resides in Milton, Ontario.
Natasha Mughal
Natasha got her HBSc from the University of Waterloo with minors in Biology, Anthropology and Psychology. Her research interests include biological anthropology, bioarcheology, and dental anthropology.
Kasiah Ruddell
Kasiah received her BA in biocultural anthropology from Oregon State University and her MSc in GIS from the University of Arizona, where she completed an analysis on cultural resource vulnerability for the island of O’ahu. She entered the Public Issues in Anthropology program in Fall 2023 and has research interests in paleopathology, bioarchaeology, and stable isotope analysis as well as biocultural approaches to studying the human experience.
Robert Stark
Robert Stark is a biological anthropologist whose bioarchaeological research focuses on questions of health, population dynamics, diet, and mobility in the ancient world.
Evengeline Strickland
Evie joined the Public Issues Anthropology program after completing her HBSc in 2022 from the University of Toronto in Forensic Anthropology. Her research interests include paleopathology, trauma analysis, and subadult bioarchaeology.
Olivia Vieira
Olivia got her HBSc from the University of Toronto (Mississauga) in Forensic Science and Anthropology. Before coming to Waterloo, she worked as an osteologist in CRM. Her research interests include forensic anthropology, trauma analysis, and sex/gender estimation.
Robyn Wood
Robyn finished her BA in Honours Anthropology at Western University in 2018. She then completed the MSc Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology program at Sheffield University in 2020, where she focused on Viking funerary practices. Her interest in the MA Public Issues in Anthropology program lies within bioarchaeology, dental archaeology and stable isotope analysis.
Andrew Young
Andrew joined the Public Issues Anthropology program after earning a BA in Archeology & Heritage Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University. His research interests include the integration of paleoclimatology and archeology, human-environment interactions in Arctic prehistory, and the adaptive strategies of past and present communities in response to climatic changes.