Research Cluster: Migrations, Displacements and Violence
Migration, Displacements and Violence
This cluster investigates the movements of peoples, at all scales, across time and space and the tensions arising from every day and episodic violence.
Global research areas include ancestry/ethnicity/class, racism, archaeological & forensic sciences, and regional and international mobility.
Affiliated Courses
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
1AB3: Race, Religion, and Violence
2BB3: Ancient Mesoamerica
2HE3: Heritage, Economy, and Ethics
2OO3: Themes in the Archaeological History of North America
2PA3: Intro to Anthropological Archaeology
2PC3: Aliens, Curses, and Nazis
2UO3: Plagues and Peoples
2WA3: Neanderthals to Pyramids
3AS3: Archaeology and Society
3EM3: Current Deabtes in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
3FA3: Forensic Anthropology
3FO3: Anthropology and the Other(ed)
3GG3: Anthropology of Europe
3PP3: Paleopathology
3FF3: Key Debates in Andean Archaeology
4DO3: Zombies and the Undead
4EE3: Archaeology In (And Of) the Present
4GS3: Genetics and Society
4HF3: Archaeology of Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers
4SG3: The Secret of the Gift
4KK3: Archaeology of Neanderthals & other early humans
4AH3: Archaeology & Heritage: Ethics, Politics & Practice
702: Contemporary Problems
720: Politics of Desire
733: Archaeologies of Identity
734: Indigenous Knowledge
740: Biocultural Synthesis
743: Anthropology of Space, Place, and Landscape
782: Diasporas, Transnationalism and Religious Identities
746: Bioarchaeology
Researchers
Basit Iqbal
PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct & Associate Member, Religious Studies
Adjunct & Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Hendrik Poinar
PhD
Professor, Anthropology
Associate Member, Biology, Faculty of Science
Joint Appointment, Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Member, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR), Faculty of Health Sciences
Member, Origins Institute, Faculty of Science
Associate Member, Biology, Faculty of Science
Kee Yong
PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Tristan Carter
PhD
Professor, Anthropology
Undergraduate Chair, Anthropology
Tracy Prowse
PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Editor, American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Research Programs
Departmental faculty and graduate students fit into one or more research programs (sub-fields).
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.
