We currently have thirteen principle faculty members in our program (including one Canada Research Chair), along with two Professors Emerita and seven additional Adjunct Professors. Our faculty members have been, and continue to be, highly successful in terms of publishing, and they have also received numerous external research grants and awards.  We are especially proud of the fact that three of our faculty members have won Trent’s prestigious “Distinguished Research Award.”  The level of excellence exhibited by our faculty, and the diversity of their research interests, allows us to provide an ideal educational setting for an equally high quality, and diverse, group of graduate students.

James Conolly
Canada Research Chair in Archaeology
Human palaeoecology, population dynamics and cultural change, settlement and landscape archaeology, lithic technology, geographical information systems and science, spatial and analytical statistics.

Hugh Elton
Archaeology

Field survey, the Roman and late Roman eastern Mediterranean, the regions of Cilicia and Isauria in Southern Turkey.

Rodney D. Fitzsimons

Archaeology

Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, Early Iron Age Greece, early civilisations, monumental architecture and early state formation, mortuary practices, settlement archaeology, urbanism.

Paul F. Healy
Archaeology
New World archaeology, Mesoamerica (esp. Maya), Lower Central America, and the Caribbean, complex societies, agriculture, mortuary practices, settlement, trade and exchange, ceramics, art and architecture.

Gyles Iannone
Archaeology
Socio-environmental dynamics (global change, sustainability, collapse, and regeneration), early civilizations, inequality, Mesoamerica (esp. Maya), archaeology and popular culture.

Susan Jamieson
Archaeology
Northeastern and Boreal archaeology, lithic analysis, interaction and postcolonial theory, historical archaeology.

Anne Keenleyside
Physical Anthropology
Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology and palaeonutrition, Greek and Roman populations of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Roger I. Lohmann
Ethnology
Psychological anthropology, religion, cultural dynamics, dreaming, imagination and perception, Melanesia.

Jennifer Moore
Archaeology
Archaeology of ancient North Africa, religious and funerary practices, archaeology of the Roman economy (particularly through ceramics).

Eugène Morin

Archaeology
Human behavioural change during the Pleistocene of Western Europe, faunal analysis, Neandertals, origins of modern humans, diffusion of agriculture in Eastern North America.

Marit Munson
Archaeology
Archaeology and art of the US Southwest, rock art, ceramics, gender, group identity, aboriginal art of North America.

John R. Topic
Archaeology
Ethnohistory, complex societies, spatial analysis, warfare, urbanism, archaeology of religion, Peru, South America.

Jocelyn S. Williams
Physical Anthropology
Bioarchaeology, palaeonutrition, stable isotopes, health, Peru, South America, Mesoamerica.

Professors Emeriti:

Hermann Helmuth
D.Sc., Dr. Habil (Keil): physical anthropology, ostaeology, Germany, North America, Maya.

Joan Vastokas
M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Columbia): anthropology of art, material culture, art and architecture of Europe and the Americas, Northwest Coast, Arctic, Northeast.

Adjunct Faculty:

Laure Dubreuil

B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I): Prehistory of the Middle East, Epipaleolithic, Natufian, Mesolithic, Neolithization process, Epigravettian of Italy, Neolithization of Europe, ground-stone tools, grinding implements, use-wear studies, experimental archaeology, technology, Design Theory.

Robert I. MacDonald

B.Sc., M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (McGill): environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, geographical information systems, archaeological site potential modeling, Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands prehistory, lithic analysis, public archaeology.

Cath Oberholtzer
M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (McMaster): Aboriginal Art, Subarctic, Cree.

David M. Pendergast
B.A. (California-Berkeley), Ph.D. (UCLA): Maya archaeology-Belize, Caribbean and historic archaeology, museology.

Douglas R. Stenton
B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Alberta): Thule culture, winter demography in upper Frobisher Bay, archaeology of inland hunting systems.

Peter L. Storck
Ph.D. (Wisconsin): peopling of the New World, palaeo-Indian cultures, environmental archaeology, archaeological theory, typology, replicative flint-knapping and lithic technology, ethnoarchaeology of hunter-gatherers and related site formation processes.

Leigh Symonds

B.A. (Toronto), M.A., DPhil, (University of York, U.K.):
landscape archaeology, early medieval archaeology, religious
transition, cultural interaction and migration.