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Anthropology

  • Welcome
  • The Experience
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  • Faculty & Research
    • Graduate Faculty
    • Emeritus, Emerita, and Former Faculty
    • Technical Staff and Research Collections
    • Kenneth Kidd Archaeological Research Laboratory
    • Trent Environmental Archaeology Laboratory (TEAL)
    • Neandertals and early modern humans in Europe
    • Néandertaliens et premiers groupes anatomiquement modernes en Europe
    • Socio-Ecological Entanglement in Tropical Societies (SETS)
    • Ka'kabish Archaeological Research Project (KARP)
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TRENTU.CA / Anthropology / Faculty & Research

Faculty & Research

Faculty in the Anthropology Department are engaged in award-winning research specializing in human/environment relationships, long-term archaeological perspectives on the relationship of human settlement and mobility with resource use, agricultural ecosystems, urbanism, food and drink studies, health, and the production and consumption of material culture, including behavioural chains, usewear, taphonomy, and technological analyses.

By conducting cutting edge research we are able to bring to you, in our teaching, the newest developments in our rapidly advancing and always-changing discipline.

Below is a listing of our Faculty members followed by a very brief description of their research direction and contact information. Click on their names to learn more about their research interests, a list of recently published papers, research opportunities, and more.

James Conolly smiling standing outside in front of green leafy backdropJames Conolly

Professor
B.A. (Toronto), M.Sc. (Southampton), M.A., Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C218, ext.7877, jamesconolly@trentu.ca

Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)

 

 

Laure Dubreuil smiling beside a microscope​Laure Dubreuil

Associate Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA  ext.6361   Life & Health Sciences DNA C212, lauredubreuil@trentu.ca

Research Interests: prehistory of Southwest Asia, Mongolia, Epipaleolithic, Natufian, Mesolithic, Neolithization process, Material Culture, Ground-stone tools, Use-wear studies, Functional analysis, Technology, Experimental archaeology. 

Rodney Fitzsimons smiling with shadowed figures behind himRodney D. Fitzsimons

Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Anthropology

B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cincinnati)
Not a​ccepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA  ext.7264, Life & Health Sciences DNA C220, rodneyfitzsimons@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece; architectural studies, energetics, monumental architecture; socio-political organisation, early state formation, urbanisation and urbanism; mortuary practices, funerary architecture; cultural identity, acculturation, ethnogenesis, hybridisation

 

Helen HainesHelen Haines

Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive)
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)
Not accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Trent Durham, 905 435-5100 ext.5045, 55 Thornton Rd., Oshawa, Office #181, helenhaines@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Ancient Maya, Early State Societies, Monumental Architecture, Economics and Socio-Political Development, Ontario pre-historic, and historic archaeology

 

Sharon Hepburn sitting in her officeSharon Hepburn

Associate Professor
B.A. (Calgary, Cambridge) M.A. (Cambridge, McGill, Cornell) Ph.D. (Cornell)

OC 229 ext.7291, shepburn@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Culture and modernity in Nepal, tourism, interpretive anthropology, vision, Nepal, death

 

Gyles Iannone standing outside with Southeast Asian temples visible behind him​Gyles Iannone

Professor
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C213 ext. 7453, giannone@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Early State Formations and Urbanism (especially in the tropics); Settlement Archaeology; Resilience Theory; The Archaeology of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Human Impact on Ancient Environments, and Collapse; Mesoamerica (especially Maya); South and Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar)

*On sabbatical July 1 - December 31, 2022
 

​​Roger Lohmann standing in front of cabinet of artifactsRoger Lohmann

Associate Professor 
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Durham Campus, Anthropology House, 905-435-5100 ext.5043, Lab: DRA 183, rogerlohmann@trentu.ca

Research Interests: ethnography, linguistics, cultural dynamics, religion, dreaming, human ecology, Melanesia

* On sabbatical January 1 - June 30, 2023

 

Paul Manning modified photoPaul Manning

Professor
Ph.D. Linguistics (University of Chicago)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C225, ext. 7271, paulmanning@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Print and digital culture, publics, semiotics, materiality, old and new media, online games, folklore, science and technology studies. Wales, Georgia.

 

Anne MeneleyAnne Meneley

Professor
B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (New York University)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C217, ext.7329, ameneley@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Italy, religion and world view, Islam, embodiment, gender, consumption, ethnographic methods, and histories of anthropology.

 

Jennifer Moore smiling wearing a green scarf beside a hibiscus hedge Jennifer Moore

Associate Professor
B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C226, ext.6102, jmoore@trentu.ca

Research Interests: archaeology of ancient North Africa (c. 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), especially votive and funerary practices, pottery as an indicator of culture and economy, and cultural identity

 

Eugene Morin in the zooarchaeology lab with animal skulls and skeletons in the backgroundEugene Morin

Professor
B.A., M.Sc. (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), Ph.D. (Michigan)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C216, ext.7682, eugenemorin@trentu.ca

Research Interests: hunters-gatherers, archaeology, Paleolithic of Europe, methods and theory in faunal analysis, ethnohistory, prehistory of Northeastern North America

 

Paul Szpak pipetting samples in fume hoodPaul Szpak

Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology
Director, Anthropology Graduate Program
Director, Trent Water Quality Centre

B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C227, ext.6373, paulszpak@trentu.ca

Research Interests: archaeological science, stable isotopes, palaeoecology, environmental archaeology, human-environment interactions, bone chemistry, palaeodiet, domestication and animal husbandry, Arctic, Peru, Chile

 

 

Jocelyn Williams sitting in her officeJocelyn Williams

Associate Professor
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Calgary)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2023-24

Life & Health Sciences DNA C222, ext.7441, jocelynwilliams@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Human paleodiet, food security and sustainability, nutrition and health, infant feeding practices, colonialism, paleopathology, archaeology of community, human mobility, South America, Caribbean, North America

* On sabbatical January 1 - June 30, 2023

Faculty & Research

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  • Technical Staff and Research Collections
  • Kenneth Kidd Archaeological Research Laboratory
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  • Neandertals and early modern humans in Europe
  • Néandertaliens et premiers groupes anatomiquement modernes en Europe
  • Socio-Ecological Entanglement in Tropical Societies (SETS)
  • Ka'kabish Archaeological Research Project (KARP)

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