Faculty

Meet Visiting Professor Yafei Jiang

Meet Visiting Professor Yafei Jiang

Welcome Dr. Lin Bu, who is visiting the Department of Anthropology from December 2024 to December 2025.

Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

Kristen Barnett is leading an Indigenous archaeology lab that will help communities reconnect with rematriated items.

Meet Visiting Professor Lin Bu

Meet Visiting Professor Lin Bu

Welcome Dr. Lin Bu, who is visiting the Department of Anthropology from December 2024 to December 2025.

I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists

I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists

Dr. Hugh Gusterson recently published a commentary in American Ethnologist that reflects on his field work in Russia in the mid-1990s. Gusterson also explores the ethical obligations anthropologists have to their human subjects and why it is important — now more than ever — to approach critical ethnography in an ethical way. Abstract Having successfully […]

Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?

Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?

A recent article in The Conversation by Anthropology’s Dr. Mark Turin and N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v (Robyn Humchit), Digitization, Information & Technology and Archival Manager, Heiltsuk First Nation asks why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?

Congratulatons to Alison Wylie on being awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam

Congratulatons to Alison Wylie on being awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam

In her acceptance speech, Anthropology Faculty Associate Dr. Alison Wylie (Philosophy, UBC) profiles her archaeological work with the Musqueam First Nation.

Getting Them ‘Out of the Way’: Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016

Getting Them ‘Out of the Way’: Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016

Dr. Helena Zeweri recently published an editorial in Today’s Totalitarianism called: “Getting Them ‘Out of the Way’: Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016. Today’s Totalitarianism is an interdisciplinary platform for academically informed commentary on authoritarian developments throughout the world. In the editorial Dr. Zeweri  states that “the forcible transfer […]

Q&A with Dr. Lennon Mhishi

Q&A with Dr. Lennon Mhishi

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Lennon Mhishi, our latest faculty member. Dr. Mhishi was kind enough to answer a few questions about his current research and what his students can look forward to learning in his classes. Welcome Dr. Mhishi!

Anthropology & Surveillance Webinar

Dr. Hugh Gusterson was one of six panelists on a webinar focused on anthropology and surveillance. The webinar was presented by the World Anthropological Union (WAU), the field’s primary international organization. The WAU aims to bring awareness of global anthropological thought and perspectives to international science and policy discussions, while facilitating conversations and collaborations among […]

A Homecoming for Digital Himalaya

Mark Turin’s recent piece in the Nepali Times shares the long history of the Digital Himalaya project as the day to day management and future developments of the digital archive transitions to non-profit Archive Nepal. Digital Himalaya began 25 years ago as a project interested in exploring new methods for collecting, protecting and connecting historical […]