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
Professor
B.A. (Toronto), M.Sc. (Southampton), M.A., Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
Life & Health Sciences DNA, ext.7877, jamesconolly@trentu.ca
Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)
Laure Dubreuil
Associate Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I)
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 D. Fitzsimons
Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cincinnati)
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 Haines
Associate Professor
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2027-28
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
Associate Professor
B.A. (Calgary, Cambridge) M.A. (Cambridge, McGill, Cornell) Ph.D. (Cornell)
On sabbatical Fall 2025
OC 229 ext.7291, shepburn@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Culture and modernity in Nepal, tourism, interpretive anthropology, vision, Nepal, death
Gyles Iannone
Professor
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
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)
Roger Lohmann
Associate Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
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
Paul 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 Meneley
Professor
B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (New York University)
On sabbatical Winter 2026
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
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor
B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
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
B.A., M.Sc. (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), Ph.D. (Michigan)
On sabbatical Fall 2025
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
Amy Scott
Associate Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
Life & Health Sciences DNA C211, ext.7661, amyscott@trentu.ca
Research Interests: bioarchaeology; forensic anthropology; human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary archaeology; ethics; death and dying; 18th century Atlantic Canada
Paul Szpak
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 2026-27
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
Lianne Tripp
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Toronto), M.A. (Toronto) , Ph.D. (Toronto)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
Life & Health Sciences DNA C224, ext.7852 , liannetripp@trentu.ca
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
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Calgary)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
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