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.
Faculty | Adjunct Faculty
Faculty
James Conolly
Professor, Department of Anthropology (on sabbatical 2021 Winter)
BA (Toronto), MSc (Southampton), MA, PhD (University College London)
Champlain College E1.3, ext.7877, jamesconolly@trentu.ca
Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; geoarchaeology; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)
Laure Dubreuil
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I)
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.
Rodney 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
Hugh Elton
Professor, Department of Cultural Studies
B.A. (Sheffield), D.Phil. (Oxford)
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
Helen Haines
Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive), Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)
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, pXRF)
Gyles Iannone
Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (University College London)
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)
Anne Keenleyside
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology (on leave 2021-22)
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Life & Health Sciences DNA C208 ext. 7852, akeenleyside@trentu.ca
Research Interests: bioarchaeology, paleopathology, paleonutrition, Greek and Roman populations, Black Sea, Mediterranean, Canadian Arctic, Franklin Expedition
Roger Lohmann
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology (on sabbatical 2021 Winter)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin–Madison)
Durham Campus, Room 182, ext.5043, rogerlohmann@trentu.ca
Research Interests: cultural, linguistic, and general anthropology, religion, dreaming, cultural transmission and change, Melanesia
Jennifer Moore
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology (on sabbatical 2021-2022)
Director, TUARC
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
Eugene Morin
Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A., MSc (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), Ph.D. (Michigan)
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology
B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western)
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
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Anthropology Graduate Program
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Calgary)
Life & Health Sciences DNA C222, ext.7441, jocelynwilliams@trentu.ca
Research Interests: stable isotopes of C, N, Sr, O, human mobility, ancient diet, nutrition and health, infant feeding practices including breastfeeding and weaning; environment, social and political influences on diet and mobility; South America, Caribbean, North America
Adjunct Faculty
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.
William 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
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.
Lisa Janz
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Arizona), Ph.D. (Arizona)
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.
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.
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.
Robert I. MacDonald
BSc, MA (Trent), PhD (McGill)
Research Interests: environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, geographical information systems, archaeological site potential modelling, Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands prehistory, lithic analysis, public archaeology.
Terry G. Powis
BA, MA (Trent), PhD (Texas)
Research Interests: Maya Lowlands of Belize; pottery, diet, and subsistence; evolution of complex societies; origin of chocolate in the New World.
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.
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