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, 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 undergraduate and graduate 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, graduate student opportunities and more.
James Conolly
On sabbatical Fall 2026
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA, x.7877, jamesconolly@trentu.ca
James Conolly's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)
Laure Dubreuil
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA, x.6361, lauredubreuil@trentu.ca
Laure Dubreuil's Google Scholar Profile
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.
Hugh Elton
Professor, Department of Cultural Studies
Anthropology Graduate Program
Lady Eaton College S107, ext.7838, hughelton@trentu.ca
Hugh Elton's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: field survey, archaeology of warfare, GIS, climate change, the late Roman eastern Mediterranean, the regions of Cilicia and Isauria in Southern Turkey
Rodney D. Fitzsimons
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program
Life & Health Sciences DNA C220, ext.7264, rodneyfitzsimons@trentu.ca
Rodney D. Fitzsimons' Google Scholar Profile
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 Haines
On sabbatical Fall 2026
Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive), Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Durham Campus 181, ext. 5045, helenhaines@trentu.ca
Helen Haines' Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Maya and Mesoamerica culture (areas of focus: development of social complexity/kingship, architecture, socio-economic organisation, trade, obsidian analysis)
Sharon Hepburn
On sabbatical Fall 2026
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
OC 229 ext.7291, shepburn@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Culture and modernity in Nepal, tourism, interpretive anthropology, vision, Nepal, death
Gyles Iannone
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program
Life & Health Sciences DNA C213 ext. 7453, giannone@trentu.ca
Gyles Iannone's Google Scholar Profile
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)
Roger Lohmann
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program
Durham Campus, Anthropology House, 905-435-5100 ext.5043, Lab: DRA 183, rogerlohmann@trentu.ca
Roger Lohmann's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: cultural, linguistic, and general anthropology, religion, dreaming, cultural transmission and change, Melanesia
Jennifer Moore
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program
Life & Health Sciences DNA C226, ext.6102, jmoore@trentu.ca
Jennifer Moore's Google Scholar Profile
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
Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology Fall 2026
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA C216, ext.7682, eugenemorin@trentu.ca
Eugene Morin's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: hunters-gatherers, archaeology, Paleolithic of Europe, methods and theory in faunal analysis, ethnohistory, prehistory of Northeastern North America
Amy Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Forensic Science
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA C211, ext.7661, amyscott@trentu.ca
Amy Scott's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: bioarchaeology; forensic anthropology; human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary archaeology; ethics; death and dying; 18th century Atlantic Canada
Paul Szpak
On sabbatical Fall 2026
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology
Director, Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Director, Trent Water Quality Centre
Life & Health Sciences DNA C227, ext.6373, paulszpak@trentu.ca
Paul Szpak's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: archaeological science, stable isotopes, palaeoecology, environmental archaeology, human-environment interactions, bone chemistry, palaeodiet, domestication and animal husbandry, Arctic, Peru, Chile
Lianne Tripp
Acting Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology Fall 2026
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA C224, ext.7852 , liannetripp@trentu.ca
Lianne Tripp's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Medical anthropology, biocultural and archival research, 19th and 20th Colonial health, demography, epidemics of infectious diseases, pandemics, Canada, Mediterranean
Jocelyn Williams
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Graduate Program - accepting graduate students for 2027-28
Life & Health Sciences DNA C222, ext.7441, jocelynwilliams@trentu.ca
Jocelyn Williams' Google Scholar Profile
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
Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology Graduate Program
Joel Cahn
Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science
BSc (Ottawa), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Life & Health Sciences DNA B108.5, ext. 7779, joelcahn@trentu.ca
Research Interests: bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology; especially trauma analyses, data comparisons methods, and equitable reporting practices in forensic anthropology
Ciprian Ardelean
BA (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), MA (National School of Anthropology & History, Mexico City), PhD (Exeter, UK)
Research Interests: The Pleistocene of the Americas (North and South America), early hunter-gatherers, North American prehistory, early peopling of the Americas, Humans during and before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Western Hemisphere (humans in the Americas before 18,000 calBP), pre-Clovis (older-than Clovis) societies, lithics, new site identification.
Sue Colledge
BSc (Birmingham), PhD (Sheffield)
Research Interests: 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.
Shari Forbes
BSc, PhD (Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Shari Forbes's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Forensic taphonomy, decomposition chemistry, time since death estimation, scavenging guilds, canine olfaction, multidimensional chromatography
William Fox
B.A., M.A. (Toronto)
williamfox@trentu.ca
William Fox's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: First Nation trade networks In the Great Lakes region with particular emphasis on the Middle Woodland and Historic (17th Century) periods, lithic sourcing in Ontario, symbolic artifact evidence for native religious belief systems in the Great Lakes region, the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record
Eric Guiry
BSc (Lakehead), MA (Memorial), PhD (British Columbia)
Research Interests: Stable isotopes, Palaeodiet, Migration, Historical ecology, Environmental archaeology, Historical archaeology, Trade, Animal husbandry, Zooarchaeology, Paleoethnobotany.
Eric Guiry's Google Scholar Profile
Katie Hull
BA (Illinois Wesleyan), MA (Missouri-Columbia), PhD (Toronto)
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology
Lawrence Jackson
BA (Trent), MA (Trent), MA (Southern Methodist University), PhD (Southern Methodist University)
Research Interests: Late glacial occupation in the Americas, early and middle archaic Ontario, early and middle woodland Ontario, archaeological history and a passing familiarity with lowland Maya archaeology
Lisa Janz
B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Arizona), Ph.D. (Arizona)
lisa.janz@utoronto.ca
Lisa Janz's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests
Themes: East Asia, human and landscape palaeoecology, diet change, animal domestication/management, spread of pastoralism, Quaternary extinctions and conservation, heritage collaboration, collections-based research, public archaeology
Methods: Zooarchaeology, lithics, spatial analysis, survey and excavation
Scott Macrae
BSc, MA (Trent), PhD (Florida)
Research Interest: tropical societies, settlement studies, water management, and agricultural practices.
Scott Macrae's Google Scholar Profile
Robert MacDonald
BSc, MA (Trent), PhD (McGill)
robertmacdonald@trentu.ca
Robert MacDonald's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, geographical information systems, archaeological site potential modeling, Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands prehistory, lithic analysis, Indigenous archaeology, critical heritage studies.
Alec McLellan
BA, MA (Trent), PhD (University College London)
Research Interests: Colonial interactions, Indigenous perspectives of archaeology, settlement patterns, landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems, human/environment interactions, Ancient Maya archaeology, Great Lakes archaeology
Kimberly Monk
BA (Western), MA (East Carolina), PhD (Bristol)
Research Interest: British Atlantic, economic and social history, Hudson’s Bay, North American Great Lakes, maritime archaeology, landscape archaeology, social anthropology of technology.
Kimberly Monk's Google Scholar Profile
Jennifer Newton
BA (York), MSc (Bournemouth, UK), PhD (James Cook, Australia)
Research interests: bioarchaeology; paleopathology; dental anthropology; sociocultural and environmental impacts on health, Southeast Asia (especially Thailand and Cambodia); Mesoamerica (especially Belize)
Laura Peers
BA (Trent), MA (Manitoba), MA (Oxon), PhD (McMaster)
Research Interests: museum-Indigenous relations, museum anthropology, visual anthropology, historic material culture, North America.
Laura Peers' Google Scholar Profile
Francisca Santana Sagredo
BA (Universidad de Chile), MSc (Oxford), PhD (Oxford)
Francisca Santana Sagredo's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, andean archaeology
Douglas Stenton
BA (Windsor), MA (Trent), PhD (Alberta)
Douglas Stenton's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: 1845 Franklin Expedition, Arctic prehistory, faunal analysis, Thule culture, historical archaeology, cultural resource management, archaeology legislation and policy.
Matt Teeter
BSc (Laurentian University), MA (Western), PhD (Western)
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, palaeoepidemiology, human health and aging, skeletal biology and imaging, stable isotopes, palaeodiet, Egypt, Southern Ontario, Baja California
Daniela Valenzuela
BA (Universidad de Chile), MA (Universidad de Tarapaca, Chile), PhD (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile)
Daniela Valenzuela's Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: Andean archaeology, pre-Hispanic Andean economy, animal consumption, visual images, production/use of rock art and geoglyphs