Karen Thomas receives Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship
Congratulations to Karen Thomas, who received the Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship for Archaeology for the 2023-24 academic year. About the Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship The fellowship is endowed by Charles E. Borden, Ph.D., Litt.D. (h.c.), Professor Emeritus of Archaeology. Dr. Borden’s teaching at UBC and his archaeological research in the Fraser Canyon and […]
Sophie Mckenzie Receives John Bodley Student Travel Award
Congratulations to Recent MA graduate, Sophie Mckenzie who received the John Bodley Student Travel Award at the Society for Applied Anthropology’s 84th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe. The John Bodley Student Travel Award was initiated by former students and honors an international scholar whose career focused on the impact of development on indigenous peoples. One travel […]
Moira Irvine Archaeological Research Fund Awardees
Anthropology undergraduate students Grace Zigart and Ying Zeng were each awarded a Moira Irvine Archaeological Research Award by the Laboratory of Archaeology in November. The Moira Irvine funds will be used to support laboratory analysis for their Honours’ projects. Grace’s research is reconstructing the use of avian faunal remains from the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm site of Locarno […]
Celebrating Fall 2023 Graduation
A big shout out to our most recent graduates. We had 7 graduate students and 5 undergraduate Anthropology majors in the December convocation. Many dropped by for cake and faculty tributes at the department before the ceremony. Congratulations to all our students on this major achievement! Graduate Students Kendra Jewell Thesis: Bailing with a red […]
2023 Urban Ethnographic Field School Dan Small Award
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Dan Small Award. The award is given out by the Urban Ethnographic Field School (UEFS) every year, at the conclusion of the course in August. The Dan Small Award is in recognition of outstanding student projects completed with community partners during the course. The 2023 recipients are: Julia […]
Eric Simons and Katherine L. Nichols recent publication: “Archaeology’s Role in Finding Missing Indigenous Children in Canada”
Eric Simons and Katherine L. Nichols On the evening of May 27, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that the unmarked graves of more than 200 children had been found on the former grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The story quickly dominated Canadian news media and drew attention beyond our national borders. After the initial Tk’emlúps […]
Congratulations on receiving the CASCA Outstanding Graduating Student Award!
Congratulations to Daniel Manson (PhD), Elias Alexander (M.A.), Maeve McAllister (B.A.) on being selected as the Canadian Anthropological Society, CASCA, Outstanding Graduating student from the anthropology department at UBC for the 2020-2021 year and thus the recipient of the CASCA award and certificate for this. The selection for this award was based on a number of factors, […]
Brianna Plant, President of the Anthropology Student Association for 2020-21
Brianna Plant is an undergraduate student at UBC and President of the Anthropology Student Association for 2020-21. Now in her final year, she is majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Anthropological Archaeology. Brianna was in the midst of writing final papers when we sat down for this interview in spring of 2021. —-Lindsey Paskulin, […]
Congratulations to Department of Anthropology Award Winners.
MA student Heather Burge received the Wilson Duff Memorial Scholarship for her work on culture and language revitalization among Tlingit. Read more MA student Emma Jing Li received the Michael Ames Scholarship in Museum Studies for her work on eco-museums in China. MA student Erika Balcombe received the Francis Reif Scholarship for her […]
