Check out these new Winter 2026/27 courses now available for registration on Workday.
Anthropology of Migration and (Im)mobilities (ANTH_V 275)
2026 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Alexia Bloch
This course focuses on everyday, lived experiences of migrants seeking to navigate the complexities of border crossing, mobility, and sometimes even settlement in new locations. We will consider questions of emotion, gender and sexuality, belonging, borders, community, and citizenship within the context of forces structuring, and often constraining, global migration.
Anthropology Horizons: Navigating careers and shaping research futures (ANTH_V 448)
2026 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Amirpouyan Shiva
What comes after your anthropology degree? This professionalization seminar prepares you for life beyond the classroom, from ethics applications and academic publishing to graduate school applications and industry careers. Through guest speakers, hands-on activities, and student-organized events, you’ll leave with practical skills and a clearer sense of your path forward. No prerequisites.
Empire, Migration, and the Political (ANTH_V 540K)
2026 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Helena Zeweri
This graduate seminar examines connections between empire, displaced peoples, and political consciousness. We will explore through what institutions, relationships, and trajectories displaced peoples encounter, participate in, resist, and refuse empire. Content will cover the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean region, Oceania, North America, and South West Asia.
Culture and Code: Anthropology of the Digital (ANTH_V 303M)
2026 Winter Term 2
Instructor: Dr. Amirpouyan Shiva
What does anthropology have to say about algorithms, platforms, AI, and digital life? This course examines digital technologies not as tools, but as cultural forms, shaped by, and shaping, identity, labour, power, and everyday social life. You will develop anthropological insights for studying the digital world from the inside.
Topics in the Anthropology of Gender: Reproduction, Mobility, and Citizenship (ANTH_V 412)
2026 Winter Term 2
Instructor: Dr. Alexia Bloch
As reproductive technologies and politics have become increasingly complex, social scientists have asked how these intersect with global citizenship regimes. Taking an anthropological approach, we will consider how surrogacy, IVF, and migrant family aspirations are sites of cultural struggle, creative activism, and emerging forms of power and inequality.
Advanced Theory and connections to Research Methods and Ethics (ANTH_V 534A)
2026 Winter Term 2
Instructor: Dr. Kristen Barnett
This course supports students interested in philosophical discussions of theory, its relationship with methods, and larger discussions of research ethics. Incorporating a holistic approach, participants will become proficient in the identification, examination, and selection of theoretical approaches for the purpose of designing or [re]visioning research.
