The level of excellence exhibited by our faculty, and the diversity of research interests, allows us to provide an ideal educational setting for an equally high quality, and diverse, group of graduate students. Our faculty members have been, and continue to be, highly successful in terms of publishing, and 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.” 

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.

Laure Dubreuil

Archaeology

Old world prehistory, origins and spread of farming, lithic analysis, ground-stone tools, use-wear studies, experimental archaeology, technology, functional analysis.

Hugh Elton
Archaeology

Field survey, archaeology of warfare, agent based modelling, the Roman and late Roman eastern Mediterranean, the regions of Cilicia and Isauria in Southern Turkey.

Rodney D. Fitzsimons

Archaeology

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

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

Gyles Iannone
Archaeology

Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems (integrated histories), Resilience Theory (adaptive cycles, panarchy theory, sustainability), Global Change Archaeology (societal metabolism, human impact on ancient environments), Collapse and Regeneration, Early Civilizations (comparative), Tropical Low-Density Urbanism, Mesoamerica (esp. the Maya), and South East Asia (esp. the Khmer).

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

Anne Keenleyside
Biological 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 P. Moore
Archaeology
Archaeology of Punic - and Roman-period North Africa (esp. Tunisia, Libya and Algeria), including cultural identity, votive practices, and funerary rites (not bioarchaeology); trade and society via ceramics analysis.

Eugène Morin

Archaeology
Human behavioural change during the Pleistocene, faunal analysis, Neandertals, origins of modern humans, prehistory of Eastern North America.

Marit Munson
Archaeology
Art and archaeology, gender, identity, and religious practice, rock art and ceramics of the US Southwest, Aboriginal art of North America

Jocelyn S. Williams
Biological Anthropology
Mortuary archaeology, palaeonutrition, stable isotopes, health and the environment, health consequences of colonialism, breastfeeding and weaning, North and South America, Mesoamerica.

Adjunct:

Sue Colledge

B.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Sheffield): archaeobotany; the origins, spread and development of Neolithic farming in SW Asia and Europe; plant domestication; the early prehistory of SW Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean; quantitative methods in archaeobotany.

William Fox

B.A., M.A. (Toronto): First Nations trade networks in the Great Lakes region, with particular emphasis on the Middle Woodland and Historic (17th century) periods. Lithic sourcing in Ontario. Symbolic artefact evidence for Native religious belief systems in the Great Lakes region. The identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record.

Helen R. Haines
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (London): archaeology, Mesoamerican cultures (esp. Maya), development of cultural complexity and socio-political organisations, early state societies, monumental architecture, Ontario pre-historic and historic archaeology.

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, material culture, Subarctic, Cree.

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

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

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

Leigh Symonds

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

Emerita:

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

John R. Topic
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard): ethnohistory, complex societies, spatial analysis, warfare, urbanism, archaeology of religion, Peru, South America.

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.