Core Faculty
Aleksa Alaica
I am an anthropological archaeologist interested in how people in the past interacted with and valued the world around them. I specialized in archaeology during my BA from the University of Toronto. During my MSc at the University of Edinburgh, I began training in osteoarchaeology and isotope analys...Read more
Alexia Bloch
Alexia Bloch
Professor
emailabloch@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 3160
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 1A
I came to the field of anthropology following my undergraduate studies in Russian language and literature, including at Wellesley College and as a study abroad student at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. In the early 1990s as a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the ...Read more
Research Area
Asia | Europe | History, law, communities | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobility | Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Amirpouyan Shiva
Amirpouyan Shiva
Assistant Professor of Teaching
emailashiva@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2878
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 32
I received my PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 2018. My PhD fieldwork research in the Persian blogosphere mainly examines how people change in the process of media-making and media-receiving. It addresses the questions of how, in a ubiquitously mediated world, t...Read more
Andrew Martindale
Andrew Martindale
LOA Director | Professor
phone604 822 2545
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 29
My research is intertwined with material legacies of people of and on the Pacific coast. I've been fortunate to work in partnership with Tsimshian and Musqueam people as friends, colleagues, and teachers. My endeavors as a result inhabit intersections of colonialism and race, of materiality and ...Read more
Camilla Speller
I am broadly trained in biological anthropology and archaeology. My BA from the University of Calgary was a double major in archaeology and biological anthropology. During my MA at Simon Fraser University, I developed skills in ancient DNA analysis, and I expanded this expertise for my PhD research ...Read more
Carole Blackburn
Carole Blackburn
Associate Professor
emailblcarole@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2303
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 5
Legal and political anthropology, race and colonization, human rights, indigenous rights and sovereignty, First Nations and the Canadian state, injury, trauma and reconciliation.
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | History, law, communities | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Charles Menzies
Professor hagwil hayetsk's (Charles Menzies) primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations' issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has c...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Europe | History, law, communities | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Daisy Rosenblum
Daisy Rosenblum (PhD University of California, Santa Barbara) focuses on the multi-modal documentation and description of indigenous languages of North America, with an emphasis on methods, partnerships, and products that contribute to community-based language revitalization. She currently works wit...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Linguistic Anthropology
Darlene Weston
Darlene Weston
Associate Professor
location_onLIFE Building, Room 2512
As a biological anthropologist, human osteoarchaeologist and palaeopathologist, I study human remains from archaeological contexts, focusing on bio-cultural interpretations of health and disease. My interest in human remains was sparked as an undergraduate student in archaeology at Simon Fraser Univ...Read more
Elif Sari
Elif Sari
Assistant Professor
emailelif.sari@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2756
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 13
I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in transnational sexualities, migration, asylum, waiting, humanitarianism, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas as well as collaborative, multimodal, and social justice-oriented approaches to kno...Read more
Research Area
Africa/Middle East | Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobility | North AmericaResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
ON LEAVE
until July 2026
Gastón Gordillo
Gastón Gordillo
ON LEAVE
until July 2026
Professor
emailgordillo@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 3797
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 12
Research Area
Latin America/CaribbeanProfessor Gastón Gordillo was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (1990) and completed his PhD at the University of Toronto (1999). He is a Guggenheim Fellow, was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Yale, a visiting professor at Cornell, and a ...Read more
Research Area
Latin America/CaribbeanResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Helena Zeweri
Helena Zeweri
Assistant Professor
emailhelena.zeweri@ubc.ca
phone604 827 0656
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 22
I was drawn to the field of Anthropology because of its ability to attend to how people navigate relations of power in everyday life. I believe in the power of ethnography to capture the nuances of people’s multi-layered experiences of systems, institutions, and policies. I completed my doctoral s...Read more
Research Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
ON LEAVE
until July 2026
Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson
ON LEAVE
until July 2026
Professor
phone604 822 0337
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 8
Hugh Gusterson (PhD, Stanford University, 1991) has a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Anthropology Department at UBC. Before coming to UBC in 2020, he taught at MIT, George Mason University, George Washington University, and the Georgia Institute of Tech...Read more
Research Area
History, law, communities | North America | Qualitative and/or quantitative methods | Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Jennifer Kramer
I hold a joint position as cultural anthropologist in the department of anthropology and museum curator at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC. I strive to be both a collaborative museologist and a critical museologist. In this way, I merge practitioner/curator and theoretician/critic as I partn...Read more
Kristen Barnett
Kristen Barnett (Unangax) is an assistant professor and Tier-2 CRC Chair in Indigenous Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Broadly trained in anthropological archaeology and Indigenous studies she received her PhD at the University of Montana (2015). ...Read more
Lennon Mhishi
Lennon Mhishi
Assistant Professor
emaillennon.mhishi@ubc.ca
phone604 827 3740
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 30
I am an anthropologist whose interdisciplinary work spans interests in Africa and its diasporas; museums; material culture and art practices; the afterlives of slavery and colonialism; and approaches to contemporary forms of exploitation, forced labour and human rights in different African countries...Read more
Research Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Leslie A Robertson
Leslie A Robertson
Professor
phone604 822 0126
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 4
Research Area
Canada/Northwest CoastI've worked on a variety of academic and solutions-focused, ethnographic projects with First Nations and settler communities in Western Canada. Methodologically, I'm interested in community and academic approaches to difficult knowledge production (silenced pasts, colonial impasses, contested repr...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest CoastResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Mark Turin
Mark Turin
Associate Professor
emailmark.turin@ubc.ca
phone604 827 0613
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 28
Mark Turin is a socio-cultural anthropologist and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is cross-appointed between the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Anthropology. He currently serves as the Interim Editor of the journal Pacific Affairs...Read more
Research Area
Asia | Canada/Northwest Coast | Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Expressive culture, language, materiality | History, law, communities | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Linguistic Anthropology | Museum and Visual Anthropology | Socio-cultural Anthropology
Millie Creighton
Sociocultural Anthropology, Japan, Japanese descent communities (Nikkei or Nikkeijin), Korea, Inter-Asian Relations, Identity, Consumerism, Popular and Mass Culture, Gender, Minorities, Work and Leisure.
Research Area
Asia | Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobilityResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Nicola Levell
Nicola Levell
Associate Professor
emailnicola.levell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9856
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 23
Critical museology and curatorial practice; the history of museums and museum anthropology, visual and performative arts and storytelling.
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore
Associate Professor
emailpatrick.moore@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6359
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 14
After completing degrees in anthropology, linguistics and education, I worked for many years learning First Nations languages in northern Alberta and the Yukon, teaching those languages, and developing curriculum and teaching materials. In 1994, I returned to graduate study in anthropology, working ...Read more
Sam Walker
Sam Walker
Assistant Professor Without Review
emailsam.walker@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3124
location_onANSO 1211
Samantha Walker is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the social production of place and landscape. She specialized in archaeology during her BA at the University of Toronto and completed her MA at Trent University on the emergence of Late Archaic and Middle Woodland cemeteri...Read more
Research Area
Arctic/Subarctic | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobility | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Sara Shneiderman
ON LEAVE
until June 2026
Shaylih Muehlmann
Shaylih Muehlmann received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley (2008-2010). She joined the anthropology department at the University of British Columbia in 2010 and was appointed the Canada Research Chair in Language,...Read more
Susan Rowley
Susan Rowley
Curator of Public Archaeology, Director of Museum of Anthropology | Associate Professor
emailsusan.rowley@ubc.ca
phone604 723 0494
location_onANSO 1208
Susan Rowley is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and a curator at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Ph.D. in archaeology from Cambridge University. She first travelled north in 1974 as a field assistant on an archaeological...Read more
Research Area
Arctic/Subarctic | Canada/Northwest Coast | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Qualitative and/or quantitative methodsResearch Stream
Anthropological Archeology | Biological Anthropology | Museum and Visual Anthropology
Tracey Heatherington
Tracey Heatherington
Associate Professor
phone604 822 3160
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 6
I am a Sociocultural Anthropologist interested in globalization, development and political ecology. I examine environmental concerns in the context of social justice, using case studies to explore the evolving global imaginaries that beckon us to define environmental problems like biodiversity conse...Read more
Research Area
Europe | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobility | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Vinay Kamat
Vinay Kamat
Dept. Head | Professor
emailvinay.kamat@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4802
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 16
I trained as a medical anthropologist with specialization in global health, first at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and then at Emory University, Atlanta, from where I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology. Before that, I trained as a professional social worker and received my Ph.D. in Social Work f...Read more
ON LEAVE
until June 2026
Zahra Hayat
Zahra Hayat
ON LEAVE
until June 2026
Assistant Professor
emailzahra.hayat@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3575
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 9
I am Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I study pharmaceutical capitalism, intellectual property, and law. I am trained as an anthropologist and lawyer, and work at the intersection of medical anthropology and law. From 2024-26, I will be a Harvard ...Read more
Zhichun Jing
Dr. Jing’s areas of interest include the archaeology of Shang civilization, early urbanism, culture contact, environmental archaeology, the archaeology of collapse and sustainability, archaic jades, and archaeological ceramics. He has conducted fieldwork in China, Greece, and the United States. Hi...Read more
Sessional Instructors
Ana Vivaldi
Ana Vivaldi
Continuing Sessional
emaila.vivaldi@ubc.ca
I am an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology teaching in the areas of: Politics of Race and Indigeneity, Gender and transfeminism, Social Theory and Multimodal Ethnographic Methods. My research is based at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, where I h...Read more
Research Area
Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobility | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Latin America/CaribbeanResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Rafael Wainer
Rafael Wainer
Continuing Sessional
emailrafawa@mail.ubc.ca
Rafael has a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from UBC specializing in children's cancer experience throughout treatment. He works with health care providers, children and families in Argentina. He is interested in questions of subjectivity, capacity for action, the body, social care, and the limits t...Read more
Adjunct Faculty
Ellen Judd
Ellen Judd
Adjunct Professor
emailellen.judd@ubc.ca
Ellen Judd’s research is concentrated in the anthropology of contemporary China, and particularly in the areas of rural ethnography, political economy, gender and relatedness, cultural production, political anthropology and mutuality. She was educated at Queen’s University at Kingston, the Unive...Read more
Research Area
Asia | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobilityResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Luis Manuel González
Luis Manuel González
Adjunct Professor
Luis Manuel González is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The University of British Columbia. He is also a Research Associate in the Archaeology Centre at the University of Toronto. A licensed professional archaeologist and educator trained at Universidad Nacional Mayor de S...Read more
Mark Haden
Mark Haden is a major figure in the field of psychedelic medicines, with a long list of past and present activities and responsibilities. Among—and beyond—these, he is the Clinical Supervisor for the Psychedelic Treatment Program at Qi Integrated Health and the Vice President of Business Develop...Read more
Research Area
Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Medical Anthropology
Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco
Adjunct Professor
Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. grew up in Italy and the United States. She received an AB from Brown University in 1980 and a Ph.D. from Indiana University – Bloomington in 1988. She has taught at California State University, where she served two terms as department chair, as well as the University of Ca...Read more
Research Area
Europe | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Lifeways, deathways, ritual | North America | Qualitative and/or quantitative methodsResearch Stream
Socio-cultural AnthropologyFaculty Associates
Alison Wylie
Alison Wylie
Professor, Department of Philosophy
emailalison.wylie@ubc.ca
I’m a philosopher of the social and historical sciences, with particular interest in questions raised by archaeological research: How do we know what (we think) we know about the past? In particular, what counts as evidence in archaeological contexts? If values and interests play a role in all asp...Read more
Research Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Anthony Shelton
Anthony Shelton
Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Prof. Anthony Shelton was Director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia from 2004 - 2021. An anthropologist, administrator, curator and teacher originally from Britain, Prof. Shelton is a leader in museology, cultural criticism, and the anthropology of art and ae...Read more
Bernard Perley
Bernard Perley
Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies
Bernard C. Perley is Maliseet from Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick. He holds Bachelor of Fine Arts (studio arts) and Master of Architecture (architectural design) degrees from the University of Texas, Austin. His PhD is in Social Anthropology from Harvard. His academic training is interdisciplin...Read more
Research Area
Digital and virtual media, performance, aesthetics | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | North America | Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Candis Callison
Candis Callison
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Global Affairs
Faculty Associate, Department of Anthropology
Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She...Read more
Danya Fast
Danya Fast
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
emaildanya.fast@ubc.ca
Research Area
Africa/Middle East | Canada/Northwest Coast | North America | Well-being, health, technologyI am a medical anthropologist conducting research in Vancouver, Canada and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. My work in these settings has broadly focused on understanding the relationship between health and place among young people who use drugs in the margins of the city. I am an Assistant Professor in the...Read more
Research Area
Africa/Middle East | Canada/Northwest Coast | North America | Well-being, health, technology
Fuyubi Nakamura
Fuyubi Nakamura
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies | Curator, Asia, MOA
Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist trained at the University of Oxford. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and is also Curator, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. She is an Associate Member in the Department of Anthropology, but do...Read more
Heidi Swierenga
Heidi Swierenga
Head Conservator, MOA
Research Area
Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes
Heidi Swierenga is an object conservator specializing in the care and use of Indigenous belongings. She is Senior Conservator at the Museum of Anthropology and Head of the Collections Care and Access Department. She is an associate in the department of Anthropology at UBC where she...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes
Jemima Pierre
Jemima Pierre
Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice
emailjpierr02@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Jemima Pierre is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies in the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ), and Faculty Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is also a Research...Read more
Research Area
Africa/Middle East | History, law, communities | Identities, race, gender and sexuality, mobilityResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Karen Duffek
Karen Duffek
Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest, MOA
emailkaren.duffek@ubc.ca
Nuno Porto
Nuno Porto
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory | Curator, Africa & South America, MOA
emailnuno.porto@ubc.ca
Nuno Porto received his PhD from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He holds a joint appointment with the Museum of Anthropology where he is Curator for African and South American collections.
Before joining UBC in 2012, Nuno taught at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, on subjects related to...Read more
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice
emailpilar.riano@ubc.ca
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is a professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and co-lead of the Transformative Memory International Network. Pilar is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar and an ethnographer/labourer of memory work. Her research focuses on...Read more
Shannon Walsh
Shannon Walsh
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Film
emailshannon.walsh@ubc.ca
Dr. Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker and writer whose award-winning films cover topics ranging from labour rights, to grief and climate change. Indiewire called her latest film Adrianne & the Castle (2024), an “exquisite” and “intoxicating story”, while The Gig is Up (2021) was haile...Read more
Terre Satterfield
Terre Satterfield
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability
Terre’s work has been at the forefront of the environmental social sciences, and includes pioneering interdisciplinary work on questions of the value, culture, and perceived risks of environmental change. Three fundamental questions drive her work: What do people value environmentally and cultur...Read more
Postdoctoral Fellows
Lane Atmore
I am a Killam postdoctoral research fellow at the ADaPT lab. My research focuses on the historical ecology and intertwined evolution of Pacific herring and people across the Pacific Rim through aDNA and population genomics. I have a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College, where I focused on cultur...Read more
Lucy Gill
Lucy’s research sits at the intersection of anthropological archaeology and historical ecology, employing community-based participatory research practices as the foundation for empirically rigorous data collection and theoretical formulation. She co-directs Darién Profundo, a collaborative projec...Read more
Research Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Megan Muller
Megan Muller
Postdoctoral Fellow
emailmegan.muller@ubc.ca
location_onPonderosa Office Annex F, Room 112
Dr. Megan Muller recently completed her Doctorate of Philosophy (anthropology) at Carleton University. She applies a collaborative ethnographic methodology to leverage research capacity to inform inter-agency collaboration and collective problem solving for increasing health equity, especially in th...Read more
Research Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
William Wadsworth
William Wadsworth
Postdoctoral Fellow
location_onPonderosa Office Annex F, Room 110
I am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. Andrew Martindale and the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Archaeology Center. I am an archaeologist who specializes in the application of digital and non-invasive technologies to cultural heritage, primarily at the request of Indigenous Natio...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | History, law, communities | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Anthropological ArcheologyHonorary Research Associates
Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason
Honorary Research Associate
emailandrew.mason@ubc.ca
I am trained as an anthropological archaeologist and I have obtained further formal education in the areas of intangible cultural heritage, the management of heritage sites, the assessment of cultural landscapes and historic districts, built heritage rehabilitation and the assessment of site signifi...Read more
Research Stream
Biological Anthropology
Benjamin Collins
Benjamin Collins
Honorary Research Associate
emailbcolli08@mail.ubc.ca
I am an archaeologist with experience in zooarchaeology, personal adornments, Cultural Resource Management, rock shelter archaeology, and social network and connections. My research interests focus on how past foraging peoples adapted and thrived during periods of rapid climate change through exten...Read more
Research Area
Africa/Middle East | Canada/Northwest Coast | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Qualitative and/or quantitative methodsResearch Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Dan Small
Dan Small
Honorary Research Associate
emaildansmall@mail.ubc.ca
Research Area
Well-being, health, technologyDan Small is a medical anthropologist and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has a PhD in medical anthropology (University of British Columbia), an MPhil in circumpolar studies (University of Cambridge), an undergraduate degree in sociology...Read more
Research Area
Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Medical Anthropology
Diana Moreiras Reynaga
Diana Moreiras Reynaga
Honorary Research Associate
I have training in anthropological archaeology and bioarchaeology, specializing in Mesoamerican studies. My BA (Hons.) from the University of British Columbia was a major in anthropology, minor in history. During my MA at the same institution, I developed skills in carbon and nitrogen isotope analys...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Latin America/Caribbean | Lifeways, deathways, ritualResearch Stream
Biological Anthropology
Kate Kingsbury
Kate Kingsbury
Honorary Research Associate
emailkingsbur@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Kate Kingsbury, D.Phil. has lived in the UK, France, Belgium, and Senegal, moving to live permanently in Canada in 2017. More recently she spends much time in Mexico doing fieldwork. She received her B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and an...Read more
Lindsay Der
Lindsay Der
Honorary Research Associate
emaillindsay.der@ubc.ca
Research Area
Asia | Europe | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Lifeways, deathways, ritualLindsay Der is a Research Associate at UBC and the PI of Disruptive Technologies and Negative Heritage. She is a former limited-term Assistant Professor in the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies at UBCO. She is also a researcher with the Çatalhöyük Research Project where she wor...Read more
Research Area
Asia | Europe | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Lifeways, deathways, ritual
Visiting Professor
Lin Bu
Lin Bu
Visiting Professor, Shaanxi Normal University
emaillin.bu@ubc.ca
Dr. Lin Bu is an Associate Professor at the College of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, China. She is a visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology from December 2024 to December 2025.
BU Lin, associate professor in Department of History & Civilization, Shaanxi ...Read more
Research Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Takahiro Miyachi
Takahiro Miyachi
Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
emailtmiyachi@mail.ubc.ca
Research Area
Asia | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Latin America/Caribbean | North AmericaI am a Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UBC from August 2025 to September 2026.
My academic background is in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America, in which I earned ...Read more
Research Area
Asia | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Latin America/Caribbean | North AmericaResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Yafei Jiang
Yafei Jiang
Visiting Lecturer, Shandong University
emailyafei.jiang@ubc.ca
Dr.Yafei Jiang is an Lecturer at the college of Archaeology at Shandong University, China. He is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology from December 2024 to December 2025.
I completed my studies in archaeology, from undergraduate to doctoral level, at Shandong University, China. D...Read more
Research Stream
Anthropological ArcheologyEmeriti
Bruce Miller
Bruce Miller
Professor Emeritus
emailbgmiller@mail.ubc.ca
I have been a professor at UBC since 1990. My research concerns Indigenous peoples and their relations with the state in its various local, national, and international manifestations. In recent years my work has particularly overlapped with colleagues in archaeology and in law.
Much of my ethnogr...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | History, law, communities | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
David Pokotylo
David Pokotylo
Associate Professor Emeritus
I am an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching expertise has focused on the archaeology of hunter-gatherer-foragers, lithic technology, public archaeology, archaeological heritage management, and the use of quantitative methods in archaeology.
I pursue research on public opinio...Read more
Research Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Elvi Whittaker
Elvi Whittaker was formerly the President of the Canadian Anthropology Society, President of the Social Science Federation of Canada and Chair/Présidente of the Scientific Screening Committee for the Management of Social Transformations, UNESCO. She has been an Honorary Fellow at Ranchi University,...Read more
Research Area
Well-being, health, technologyResearch Stream
Medical Anthropology
John Barker
John Barker
Professor Emeritus
emailjohn.barker@ubc.ca
John Barker (PhD, British Columbia, 1985) is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose main research concerns the religious change among Indigenous peoples in colonial and post-colonial Oceania and British Columbia and the history of anthropological research in Canada. After receiving degrees at the Uni...Read more
Julie Cruikshank
Julie Cruikshank
Professor Emeritus
emailcrui@mail.ubc.ca
Julie Cruikshank's research focuses on practical and theoretical developments in oral tradition studies, specifically how competing forms of knowledge become enmeshed in struggles for legitimacy. Her ethnographic experience is rooted in the Yukon Territory, where she lived and worked for many years ...Read more
Research Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
Michael Blake
Michael Blake
Professor Emeritus
emailtmblake@mail.ubc.ca
I joined the faculty at UBC in 1986, a year after completing my Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a specialization in Archaeology, at the University of Michigan. My doctoral research in the early 1980s examined the household archaeology of the Postclassic period Maya centre of Canajasté on the Lagartero...Read more
Patricia Shaw
Patricia Shaw
Professor Emeritus
Patricia A. Shaw is the Founding Chair (1996-2014) of the First Nations Languages Program at University of British Columbia, and Professor of Anthropological Linguistics with particular interests in sound systems; the interface of phonology with phonetics and morphology; literacy and oral traditions...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest Coast | Expressive culture, language, materiality | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapesResearch Stream
Linguistic Anthropology
R.G. Matson
For over three decades, R.G. Matson has maintained a prolific research program, focusing on the archaeology of the Northwest Coast and the American Southwest. Matson received his BA (1966) from the University of California at Riverside, PhC (1969) and PhD (1971) from the University of California at ...Read more
Research Area
Canada/Northwest CoastResearch Stream
Anthropological Archeology
Robin Ridington
Robin Ridington
Professor Emeritus
emailretreat2@shaw.ca
Wade Davis
Wade Davis
Professor Emeritus
emailwade.davis@ubc.ca
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in C...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Latin America/Caribbean | Lifeways, deathways, ritualResearch Stream
Socio-cultural Anthropology
William McKellin
William McKellin
Assistant Professor Emeritus
emailw.mckellin@ubc.ca