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Research Cluster: Heritage, History and Memory

Heritage, History and Memory

This cluster examines how people, cultural practices and events are remembered, represented and memorialized (or forgotten) both cross-culturally and across time and space.

Researchers investigate the oftentimes contested meanings of heritage-making practices (e.g., museums, archaeological heritage sites, modern nationalist spectacles), and how particular sociocultural identities, such as nationalism, ethnicity, gender and race, among others, are produced and destabilized.

Affiliated Courses

1AB3: Race, Religion, and Violence

2BB3: Ancient Mesoamerica
2DO3: DNA Meets Anthropology
2FO3: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2HE3: Heritage, Economy, and Ethics
2HH3: Science, Technology, and Society
2OO3: Themes in the Archaeological History of North America
2PA3: Intro to Anthropological Archaeology
2PC3: Aliens, Curses, and Nazis
2RO3: Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
2RP3: Religion and Power in the Past
2UO3: Plagues and Peoples
2WA3: Neanderthals to Pyramids

3AS3: Archaeology and Society
3BF3: Bioarchaeological Field School
3DD3: Archaeology of Death
3EM3: Current Debates in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
3FO3: Anthropology and the Other(ed)
3GG3: Anthropology of Europe
3LA3: Lithics Analysis
3PH3: Dissent, Power and History
3PP3: Paleopathology
3KO3: Archaeological Interpretation

4DN3: Diet and Nutrition
4DO3: Zombies and the Undead
4EE3: Archaeology In (And Of) the Present
4GS3: Genetics and Society
4RO3: Advanced Skeletal Biology
4AA3: Materiality
4AH3: Archaeology & Heritage: Ethics, Politics & Practice

720: Politics of Desire
733: Archaeologies of Identity
734: Indigenous Knowledge
738: Archaeology as History
743: Anthropology of Space, Place, and Landscape
744: Ancient Biomolecules
749: Gastronomic Heritage
780: Approaches to Islam
786: Global Futures
787: Object Worlds

Researchers

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Tristan Carter

PhD

Professor, Anthropology

Undergraduate Chair, Anthropology

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Basit Iqbal

PhD

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct & Associate Member, Religious Studies
Adjunct & Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

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Karen McGarry

PhD

Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Anthropology

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Tracy Prowse

PhD

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Associate Editor, American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Andy Roddick

PhD

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Chair, Anthropology

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Kee Yong

PhD

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

Research Clusters

While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate our Research Programs in the below six key areas of expertise and investigation.