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
B.A. (Toronto), MA, PhD (University College London)
Archaeology Centre 103 ext.7877, jamesconolly@trentu.ca
Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)
Laure Dubreuil
Assistant 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 the Middle East, Epipaleolithic, Natufian, Mesolithic, Neolithization process, Epigravettian of Italy, Neolithization of Europe, ground-stone tools, grinding implements, use-wear studies, experimental archaeology, technology, design theory
Rodney D. Fitzsimons
Associate Professor, 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
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: The Archaeology of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Human Impact on Ancient Environments, and Collapse; Resilience Theory; Settlement Archaeology; Early Tropical State Formations; Mesoamerica (especially Maya); South and Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar and Cambodia).
Anne Keenleyside
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison)
Durham Campus, Room 182, ext.5043, rogerlohmann@trentu.ca
Research Interests: cultural, linguistics, and general anthropology, religion, dreaming, cultural transmission and change, Melanesia
Jennifer 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
Eugene Morin
Associate 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: archaeology, paleolithic of Europe, methods and theory in faunal analysis, human behavioural change during the late Pleistocene, prehistory of Northeastern North America.
Marit Munson
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Miami, Ohio), M.A., Ph.D. (New Mexico)
Life & Health Sciences DNA C218, ext. 7503, maritmunson@trentu.ca
Research Interests: art and archaeology, ceramics, rock art, iconography US Southwest, gender
Paul Szpak
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western)
Life & Health Sciences DNA C227, ext.6373, paulszpak@trentu.ca
Research Interests: stable isotopes, palaeoecology, historical ecology, archaeological science, environmental archaeology, bone chemistry, palaeodiet, domestication and animal husbandry; North American Arctic, Peru and Chile, British Columbia, California
Jocelyn 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: 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
Helen Haines
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)
Durham Campus 181, ext. 5045, helenhaines@trentu.ca
Research Interests: archaeology, ancient Mesoamerican cultures (esp. Maya), Obsidian Studies, early state development, cultural heritage and illicit antiquities
Lisa Janz
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Arizona), Ph.D. (Arizona)
Life & Health Sciences DNA C225, ext.6369, lisajanz@trentu.ca
Research Interests: East Asia, palaeoenvironment, co-evolutionary and behavioural ecology, diet choice, hunter-gatherers, pastoralism, conservation (applied archaeology), collections, national cultural heritage, lithics, archaeobotany (NE 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.