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Graduate Faculty

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.

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Faculty

James ConollyJames Conolly

Professor, Department of Anthropology
BA (Toronto), MSc (Southampton), MA, PhD (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

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

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

James Conolly's Google Scholar Profile 

 

 

Laure Dubreuil​Laure Dubreuil

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology 
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

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

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

Laure Dubreuil's Google Scholar Profile

 

Rodney FitzsimonsRodney D. Fitzsimons

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Anthropology

B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cincinnati)
 

Life & Health Sciences DNA  C220 ext.7264, 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

Rodney D. Fitzsimons' Google Scholar Profile

 

Hugh EltonHugh Elton

Professor, Department of Cultural Studies
B.A. (Sheffield), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

Lady Eaton College S107, ext.7838, hughelton@trentu.ca

Research Interests: field survey, archaeology of warfare, GIS, climate change, the late Roman eastern Mediterranean, the regions of Cilicia and Isauria in Southern Turkey

Hugh Elton's Google Scholar Profile

 

 

Helen HainesHelen Haines

Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive), Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)
Not accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

Durham Campus 181, ext. 5045, helenhaines@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Maya and Mesoamerica culture (areas of focus: development of social complexity/kingship, architecture, socio-economic organisation, trade, obsidian analysis)

Helen Haines' Google Scholar Profile 

 

 

​Gyles IannoneGyles Iannone

Professor, Department of Anthropology (accepting grad students for 2023-24)
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

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)

Gyles Iannone's Google Scholar Profile 

​Roger LohmannRoger Lohmann

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin–Madison)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

Durham Campus, Room 182, ext.5043, rogerlohmann@trentu.ca

Research Interests: cultural, linguistic, and general anthropology, religion, dreaming, cultural transmission and change, Melanesia

Roger Lohmann's Google Scholar Profile

 

Jennifer MooreJennifer Moore

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
 

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

Jennifer Moore's Google Scholar Profile  

Eugene MorinEugene Morin

Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A., MSc (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), Ph.D. (Michigan)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2024-25

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 

Eugene Morin's Google Scholar Profile 

 

Paul SzpakPaul Szpak

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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 2024-25

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

Paul Szpak's Google Scholar Profile

Jocelyn WilliamsJocelyn Williams

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Calgary)
 

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

Jocelyn Williams' Google Scholar Profile 

 

Adjunct Faculty

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-thanClovis) societies, lithics, new site identificatio.

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)

Research Interests: Forensic taphonomy, decomposition chemistry, time since death estimation, scavenging guilds, canine olfaction, multidimensional chromatography

Shari Forbes's Google Scholar Profile

 

William FoxWilliam Fox

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
B.A., M.A. (Toronto)

Archaeology Centre 104, ext. 7668, williamfox@trentu.ca

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

William Fox's Google Scholar Profile

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 

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 JanzLisa Janz

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Arizona), Ph.D. (Arizona)

lisajanz@trentu.ca

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

Lisa Janz's Google Scholar Profile 

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


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.

Robert MacDonald's Google Scholar Profile

 

Alec McLellanAlec McLellan

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
BA, MA (Trent), PhD (University College London)

amclellan@trentu.ca

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

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
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)
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, andean archaeology

Francisca Santana Sagredo's Google Scholar Profile

Douglas Stenton

BA (Windsor), MA (Trent), PhD (Alberta)
Research Interests: 1845 Franklin Expedition, Arctic prehistory, faunal analysis, Thule culture, historical archaeology, cultural resource management, archaeology legislation and policy.

Douglas Stenton's Google Scholar Profile

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)
Research Interests: Andean archaeology, pre-Hispanic Andean economy, animal consumption, visual images, production/use of rock art and geoglyphs

Daniela Valenzuela's Google Scholar Profile 

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