Aleksa Alaica Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Aleksa Alaica Area of Expertise: Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes, Lifeways, deathways, ritual Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Eleanore Asuncion Affiliated Title:Manager of Administration Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology; UBC-Anth Archaeological Field School; Urban Ethnographic Field School (UEFS); Vancouver Island Field School; Bamfield Marine Science Centre; Anyang Field School; Go Global Field School Other Department Lead Eleanore Asuncion Email: Eleanore.Asuncion@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Business Administration and Marketing Position: AnthroGuide Coordinator Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff Other: Head of Administration
Jill Baird Affiliated Title:Associate Member Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Jill Baird Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff
John Barker Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact John Barker Email: john.barker@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Religion, missionaries and conversion, colonial systems, ethnohistory, history of anthropology, symbolic anthropology, material culture Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Kristen Barnett Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Kristen Barnett Area of Expertise: Indigenous Archaeology, Research and Data Sovereignty, Indigenous Futurity, Indigenous Feminisms, settler colonialism, community partnership, Theory Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Carole Blackburn Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Carole Blackburn Email: blcarole@mail.ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Legal and political anthropology, race and colonization, human rights, indigenous rights and sovereignty, First Nations and the Canadian state, injury, trauma and reconciliation Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Michael Blake Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Michael Blake Email: tmblake@mail.ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Anthropological archaeology, ancient complex societies, origins and spread of agriculture Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Alexia Bloch Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Alexia Bloch Email: abloch@mail.ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Ethnography, transnationalism, identity, dynamics of power, life history, feminist anthropology, visual anthropology, post-socialist societies Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Brian Chisholm Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brian Chisholm Email: brian.chisholm@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Archaeology, physical anthropology, prehistoric subsistence, archaeological science, bioarchaeology, paleoanthropology Position: Emeritus Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Millie R Creighton Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Millie R Creighton Email: millie.creighton@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Japanese society and culture, Nikkei (Japanese diaspora), ethnography of Korea, popular culture, consumerism, travel and tourism, anthropology of art, identity, sense of self, work/leisure, gender, mi...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Julia M Cruikshank Affiliated Title:Professor Emerita Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Julia M Cruikshank Email: julie.cruikshank@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Subarctic ethnography, circumpolar political developments, North American ethnohistory, life history, oral narrative, oral history, environmental anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Wade Davis Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Wade Davis Email: wade.davis@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Ethnobotany, biodiversity, contemporary development issues, ethnohistory and oral traditions, ethnogeography Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Danya Fast Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Danya Fast Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff
Gaston Gordillo Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Gaston Gordillo Email: gaston.gordillo@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Anthropology and history, place and space, practice theory, political economy and cultural production, fetishism, social memory, state violence, hegemony and ethnic politics Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Hugh Gusterson Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Hugh Gusterson Area of Expertise: Militarism, anthropology of science, neoliberalism, counterinsurgency, securitization, nuclear policy, drones, the polygraph, drug policy Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Zahra Hayat Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Zahra Hayat Area of Expertise: Critical medical anthropology, global public health, and law Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Brian Hayden Affiliated Title:Honorary Research Associate Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brian Hayden Email: brian.hayden@ubc.ca Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff
Tracey Heatherington Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Tracey Heatherington Area of Expertise: Environmental anthropology, Anthropocene studies, global imaginaries, conservation and development, sustainable food systems, power & resistance, critique of neoliberalization, ethnographic writin...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Zhichun Jing Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Zhichun Jing Email: jingzh@mail.ubc.ca Area of Expertise: East Asian archaeology, landscape archaeology, archaeological study of early complex societies, geoarchaeology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Vinay R Kamat Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Vinay R Kamat Email: vinay.kamat@ubc.ca Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, ethnomedicine, global health, infectious diseases, cultures of South Asia Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff