Department of Anthropology

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http://www.anthropology.mcmaster.ca
Faculty as of January 15, 2023

CHAIR

Andrew Roddick

PROFESSORS

Megan Brickley/B.A. (Birmingham), M.Sc. (University College London), Ph.D. (Birmingham)/ Canada Research Chair in Bioarchaeology of Human Disease
Aubrey Cannon/B.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Tristan Carter/ B.A. (Nottingham), Ph.D. (University College, London)
John J. Colarusso/(Linguistics and Languages) B.A. (Cornell), M.A. (Northwestern), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Hendrik Poinar/(Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences) B.Sc., M.Sc. (California), Ph.D. (Munich)
Petra Rethmann/B.A. (Vienna), M.A. (Munich), Ph.D. (McGill)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Cal Biruk/B.A. (Bryn Mawr College), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
Karen McGarry/B.A., M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (York)
Dawn Martin-Hill/B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Tina Moffat/B.Sc. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Shanti Morell-Hart/B.A. (UTSA), M.A., Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
Tracy Prowse/B.Sc., M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Andrew Roddick/B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
Kee Howe Yong/M.Phil., Ph.D. (CUNY)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Basit Iqbal/B.A. (Alberta), M.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
Yana Stainova/B.A. (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley), M.A., Ph.D. (Brown)

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Ellen Amster/(Religious Studies, Family Medicine) B.A. (Chicago), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
Celia Rothenberg/(Religious Studies) B.A. (Wellesley, Massachusetts), M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Toronto)

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Alfredo Coppa/B.Sc. (Rome)
Ana Duggan/B.Sc. (Newfoundland), M.Sc. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Leipzig)
Scott Martin/B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Durham, UK), Ph.D. (Cambridge, UK)
 

(Applicable to all Anthropology programs)

Anthropology includes the three major subfields of Sociocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, and Archaeology. It should be noted that each subfield has its own sequence of courses and prerequisites.

Note

1. Students are strongly encouraged to consult the Anthropology web site to determine sessional course offerings, as not all Level II, III, and IV courses are offered each year: http://anthropology.mcmaster.ca/programs

Programs

• Combined Honours in Anthropology and Another Subject (B.A.)
• Honours Anthropology (B.A.)

• Anthropology (B.A.)

• Minor in Anthropology

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