Primary Contact Eleanore Asuncion 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 Position: AnthroGuide Coordinator Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff Other: Head of Administration Other Department Lead E-mail Eleanore.Asuncion@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseBusiness Administration and Marketing
John Barker Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail john.barker@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseReligion, missionaries and conversion, colonial systems, ethnohistory, history of anthropology, symbolic anthropology, material culture
Carole Blackburn Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail blcarole@mail.ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseLegal and political anthropology, race and colonization, human rights, indigenous rights and sovereignty, First Nations and the Canadian state, injury, trauma and reconciliation
Michael Blake Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail tmblake@mail.ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseAnthropological archaeology, ancient complex societies, origins and spread of agriculture
Alexia Bloch Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff Department Lead E-mail abloch@mail.ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseEthnography, transnationalism, identity, dynamics of power, life history, feminist anthropology, visual anthropology, post-socialist societies
Brian Chisholm Assistant Professor Emeritus Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Position: Emeritus Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail brian.chisholm@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseArchaeology, physical anthropology, prehistoric subsistence, archaeological science, bioarchaeology, paleoanthropology
Millie R Creighton Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail millie.creighton@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseJapanese 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
Julia M Cruikshank Professor Emerita Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail julie.cruikshank@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseSubarctic ethnography, circumpolar political developments, North American ethnohistory, life history, oral narrative, oral history, environmental anthropology
Wade Davis Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail wade.davis@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseEthnobotany, biodiversity, contemporary development issues, ethnohistory and oral traditions, ethnogeography
Gaston Gordillo Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail gaston.gordillo@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseAnthropology and history, place and space, practice theory, political economy and cultural production, fetishism, social memory, state violence, hegemony and ethnic politics
Hugh Gusterson Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact Area of ExpertiseMilitarism, anthropology of science, neoliberalism, counterinsurgency, securitization, nuclear policy, drones, the polygraph, drug policy
Brian Hayden Honorary Research Associate Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail brian.hayden@ubc.ca vCard
Tracey Heatherington Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact Area of ExpertiseEnvironmental anthropology, Anthropocene studies, global imaginaries, conservation and development, sustainable food systems, power & resistance, critique of neoliberalization, ethnographic writin...Read More
Rumiko Tachibana Graduate and Undergraduate Program Coordinator Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Administrative/Support Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail anth.ugrad@ubc.ca vCard
Zhichun Jing Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail jingzh@mail.ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseEast Asian archaeology, landscape archaeology, archaeological study of early complex societies, geoarchaeology
Vinay R Kamat Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail vinay.kamat@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseMedical anthropology, ethnomedicine, global health, infectious diseases, cultures of South Asia
Jennifer Kramer Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact Area of ExpertiseFirst Nations, identity, cultural patrimony, NW Coast art, museums, representation, repatriation; First Nations of Canada;
Nicola Levell Associate Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail nicola.levell@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseCritical museology and curatorial practice, global politics of tangible and intangible cultural heritages, production of space, technologies of memory and place, history of museums, museum anthropolog...Read More
Sabina Magliocco Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail sabina.magliocco@ubc.ca vCard Area of ExpertiseFolklore and expressive culture; ritual, festival and religion; magic and witchcraft; modern Pagan religions; ethnic/regional/national identity; animal studies; ethnographic writing.
Susan Marsden Honorary Adjunct Professor Organization:University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact