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!
Q&A with Dr. Sam Walker
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Sam Walker, our latest faculty member. Dr. Walker was kind enough to answer a few questions about her current research and what her students can look forward to learning in her classes. Welcome Dr. Walker! Q: Please share a bit about your current research. A: My active projects explore […]
Is There Something Fishy About the Polygraph?
Dr. Hugh Gusterson’s new article “Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?” is featured in the latest issue of Anthropology News. This article examines the history and use of the controversial polygraph test. In 2017 Dr. Gusterson and his research assistant Dana Burton observed the nine-day court case of White Marlin Open, Inc. v. Heasley […]
Dr. Andrew Martindale work with Indigenous Communities recognized with SSHRC Impact Award
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Martindale who has received the nationally prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Impact – Connection Award 2023 for his scholarship in partnership with Indigenous communities. Dr. Martindale’s work focuses on issues that respond to historic and ongoing colonial processes beginning with the theft of Indigenous land and including […]
Anthropology researchers co-direct new collaborative research hub, part of NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science partnership
Researchers from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts will be partners in the newly announced NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) – a five-year, $30 million international NSF Science and Technology Center based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The center will focus on connecting Indigenous knowledges with mainstream western science to […]
Save the Dates! ANTH Colloquia Series 2023-24
The Department of Anthropology invites you to its Colloquium Series The talks and events are open to the public and are of interest to faculty, students, alumni, and community members. Where: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO), Room 134 When: Alternating Thursdays, 12:30-2:00 pm 2023-24 Colloquium Series This year, in addition to our regular colloquia, we’re […]
ANTH Colloquia: “Contemporary Colonial Frontier Making: Thinking from the Operational Digital enclosure in Northwest China” by Professor Darren Byler
This talk examines the history and technological operations of contemporary settler colonial frontier making. By thinking from a “sub-colonial” frontier in Northwest China—defined as a colonial project of a former semi-colony—and the digital enclosure of automated surveillance and data analytics that enables it, this talk will theorize the basic operations and infrastructures of contemporary coloniality. […]
ANTH Colloquia: “Policy, Extractivism, Decolonization” by Professor Tess Lea
This paper explores the relationship between Indigenous rights to land, extractivism and climate change exploring these connections as part of an ongoing project to make sense of the insensibilities of Indigenous social policy, at least as I know these to be in Australia, and how this relates to everything else that we might take for […]
ANTH Colloquia: “Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples” By Bruce Miller
Date: Thursday January 19th 2023 Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PST Location: ANSO 134 Title: “Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples” Abstract from the Speaker: “I draw on my work as an expert in human rights cases, and my detailed ethnographies of these and other cases, together with […]
New Course: Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia
Melanesia is one of the most anthropologically significant places in the world. Fundamental ideas central to anthropology emerged from ethnographic studies there. This incredibly diverse region is also ripe with many important issues at the forefront of anthropology today, including land tenure, colonialism and resistance, gender relations, sexuality, exchange, development, and nationalism.