People

Areas of interest: Gender, Global health, Globalization, Health & health care, Health & well being, Race & ethnicity, Race & gender, Race & racism, Religion & culture, Religion & the social sciences, Religious studies, Sexuality & family, Traditional medicine practices, Western field

Areas of interest: Archaeology, Decolonization

Areas of interest: Anthropology of death, Care & disability, Care giving, Critical disability studies, Health & wellbeing, Medical anthropology, Mental health, Religion & culture, Religion & the social sciences, Social-cultural anthropology, Sport, Traditional medicine practices, Western field

Areas of Interest: Bio Archaeology, Paleopathology

Areas of interest: Critical data studies, Global health, Medical anthropology, Queer studies, Science & technology studies, Socio-Cultural anthropology

Dr. Brickley will be accepting graduate students for entry into the program in September 2025 and is interested in hearing from potential applicants at both the Masters and PhD levels.

Areas of interest: Bioarchaeology, Biological anthropology, Metabolic diseases, Paleopathology

Areas of interest: Archaeology, Fisheries, Historical cemeteries, Mortuary practice, Northwest coast.

Dr. Cannon is not accepting graduate students.

I am accepting new graduate students in the Fall 2025. Feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Areas of interest: Archaeology, British prehistory, Early humans, Eastern Mediterranean prehistory, Lithics, Politics, Pop culture

Areas of interest: Climate, water & sustainability, History, temporality & time, Politics, Socio-cultural anthropology, Social inequalities, Social justice

Areas of interest: Linguistics, Mythology, Socio-Cultural anthropology

Areas of interest: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Health, Disease and the Environment

Research interests
Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, care and caregiving, posthuman health, the imagination, community engaged research

My research combines archaeology, ecology, and biogeochemistry to investigate long-term relationships between people, animals, and environments. Using stable isotope analysis and other biomolecular approaches, I study topics including historical ecology, human–animal relationships, past aquatic ecosystems, animal management, migration, trade, and diet.

My work draws on archaeological and museum collections spanning the last several thousand years and has examined topics ranging from fisheries collapse and environmental change to animal domestication, colonial food systems, and the ecology of extinct and endangered species.

Research Areas

• Archaeological Science
• Biomolecular Archaeology
• Environmental Archaeology
• Historical Ecology
• Human–Animal Relationships
• Isotope Biogeochemistry
• Zooarchaeology
• Bioarchaeology

Areas of interest: 19th & 20th century epidemics, Anthropology of death, Anthropology of infectious disease, Health, Sickness & inequality

I am accepting new graduate students in the Fall 2025. Feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Areas of interest: Displacement, Globalization & transnationalism, History, temporality & time, Humanitarianism, Poetics, Political theory, Religion & culture, Secularism, Violence

Areas of interest: Socio-cultural anthropology, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, Thailand, nationalism, historiography

Areas of interest: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Childhood and Adolescent Health.

Areas of interest: Archaeology, Ceramics, Foodways, Lithics, Materiality, Paleoethnobotany

Areas of interest: Gender & sexuality, Media, Multicultural education, Nationalism, Race, Social-cultural anthropology, Sport

Research interests: medieval medicine, history of the body, classical reception, mortuary archaeology, and the Italian Renaissance.

My research perspectives are grounded in biocultural and political-economic approaches, focusing on maternal-child health and nutrition, food insecurity, immigrant dietary change, and social and cultural dimensions of food and nutrition. I am committed to applied and community-based research, which includes engagement with a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations in the City of Hamilton.

Currently, I am doing school food program research with other committed academics and community activists who are instrumental in developing a national school food program in Canada.  I am a principal investigator on a SSHRC-funded Partnership Development Grant (2026-2029). Our main non-academic research partner is The Coalition for Healthy School Food. The goal of the study is to examine Canada’s emerging School Food Program through an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) lens by listening to the voices of parents, teachers, and children.

I am recruiting graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year to work on this project.

Areas of interest: Bioanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotopes, Roman Period, Late Antiquity, Middle Ages.

Areas of interest: Anthropology of culture, health & disease, Archaeology, Ethnoecology, Foodways, Paleoethnobotany

Areas of Interest: South American Prehistory, Southeast Asian Archaeology, Architectural Analysis, Digital Humanities, Photogrammetry, Virtual Reality

Areas of Fieldwork and Research

As a forensic anthropologist, I continue to participate in criminal death investigations, and in the recovery of human remains from post-conflict regions, alongside ongoing research on the collection, trade, and display of human remains across public, private, and institutional domains.

My current SSHRC-funded project is a comparative ethnographic study on the evolving roles of prosectors as they navigate shifting ethical and cultural mandates with the impact of technology on body donorship and dissection practices worldwide.

Recent publications

Nafte, M. (2023). Flesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (4th ed.). Carolina Academic Press

Nafte, M., & Dalrymple, B. (2019). Crime and Measurement: Methods in Forensic Investigation (3rd ed.). Carolina Academic Press

Areas of Interest: Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Sports, the Body and Embodiment, Commodification, Pain/Injury, Risk, Care-Seeking

Areas of interest: Biocultural Anthropology, Food Environment, Food Insecurity, Arts-based methods, Public Health

Areas of Interest: Archaeology, Mortuary Archaeology, Historical Cemeteries, Commemoration, Perceptions of the Elderly.

Areas of interest: Archaeology, Biological anthropology, Health, The Black Death

My research explores diet, health, and mobility in past populations, using palaeopathological and isotopic analyses of human bones and teeth.

My approach is interdisciplinary, combining skeletal, isotopic, and archaeological evidence embedded within the historical and archaeological context of the people I study.

Research Areas

• Anthropology of Culture, Health and Disease
• Anthropology of Death
• Bioarchaeology
• Biological (physical) Anthropology
• Classical Archeology
• Physical Anthropology

Areas of interest: Anthropology of political possibilities & the imagination, Art, media & mediation, History, temporality & time, Socio-cultural anthropology

Areas of interest: Apprenticeship, Archaeology, Ceramics, Landscape archaeology, Materiality, South American prehistory

Areas of interest: Religion & the social sciences, Western field

Areas of Interest: Socio-cultural Anthropology, Politics of Identity, Religion and Material Culture, History and Memory

Areas of interest: sociocultural anthropology, hospitality, refugee reception, non-profits.

Areas of interest: Cultural, Poverty, Socio-cultural anthropology, Social inequalities, Violence

Areas of interest: Sociocultural Anthropology, Caregiving, Autism Studies, Disability Studies, Education, Public Policy

Dr. Afroza Sultana earned her PhD in Medical Anthropology from McMaster University, where she collaborated with Haudenosaunee women at Six Nations of the Grand River, the second largest First Nation reserve in Canada. Her research focused on assessing the interrelationship between water security and holistic maternal health. In her doctoral thesis, Dr. Sultana employed a decolonizing and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA), and Environmental Anthropology to explore the connections among water security, settler colonialism, and maternal health. This research led to co-authored publications in notable journals, including Frontiers in Water, Medical Anthropology, and the Indigenous Policy Journal.

Research interests: Psilocybin, Entheogenic Drug Use, Spirituality, Witchcraft, Religion, Death and Afterlife

Areas of interest: Pandemics, Bioarchaeology, Health disparity, Paleodemography, Stress

I am accepting new graduate students in the Fall 2025. Please contact me if you are interested.

Areas of Interest: : Latin American & Latinx Studies, Reggaetón, Salsa, Black Studies, Decolonial Studies, Intersectionality, Identity/Identities formation(s), Forced Migration and Displacement, Diasporas and Transnational Studies

I am accepting new graduate students in the Fall 2025. Feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Areas of interest: Historiography, Politics & history, Religion & politics, Socio-cultural anthropology, Violence & ethnography of the nation-state