Faculty and Instructors
Faculty
Department Head & Professor
Research Interests: Environmental anthropology; inequality; knowledge/ignorance; governance; climate change; ocean studies; fisheries; Peru, Ecuador, and Canada
Professor
Research Interests: Historical Anthropology; Memory; Anthropology of Labour; Critical Mobility and Migration Studies; Feminist Anthropology; Food Studies; Translation Studies; Minoritized Languages
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Geographical: Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda); North America
- Theoretical and Topical: Development Studies; Environmental and Economic Anthropology; Critical Agrarian Studies; Agriculture; Farm Workers; Land Reform; Gender Relations; Migration; Religion
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Marxian Anthropology; Class and Culture; Social Inequality; Newfoundland and Shetland Islands Ethnography
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Anthropology of Development, Economic Processes, Labour and Work, Household Production and Politics; Latin America and the Andes
Associate Professor & Graduate Officer
Research Interests: Political Anthropology, with a Focus on Problems of Democracy, Citizenship and Human Rights; Reproductive Rights; the Anthropology of Debt; Lived Neoliberalism; Public Anthropology; Northern Ireland and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Intergenerational Transmission of Linguistic and Cultural Practices within Northern Indigenous Communities; Linguistic anthropology; Indigenous youth; decolonization and Indigenous self-governance; global Indigenous movements, language documentation and revitalization; urban politics; settler colonialism; arctic and sub-arctic studies; Canada; Russia
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Arctic Ontologies; Polar Diplomacy; Cooperative Food Sharing; Northern Social Economy; Reindeer/Caribou Management and Relashionships to Humans
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Social and Cultural Theory; Philosophical Anthropology; Environmental Anthropology; Political Economy; Science and Technology Studies; Maritime Studies; Commodities and Global Value Chains; Protected Areas; Fisheries and Aquaculture; more
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Decolonization; Indigenous Self-governance; Residential Schools; Natural Resource Conflicts; Indigenous-settler Collaborative Research and Writing; Settler Colonialism; Settler Narratives; Labrador
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Adjunct Professor/Teaching Term Appointment
Research Interests: Intersection of Media Practices, Values and Emerging Public Morality; Marketization of Wellbeing; Community-based Economic Activities; Mediated Religious Experience; Political Mobilization
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Forest Co-Management in Nitassinan/Labrador; Indigenous Places and the Development of Muskrat Falls; Relationship Between Humans and Rangifer
Cross-appointed Professor
Research Interests: The Politics of Colonization/Decolonization; Indigenous Communities in Paraguay and Labrador; Resource Conflicts; Hunting Ban of Caribou; Political Ontology
Per-course Instructor
Per-course Instructor
Research Interests: The anthropology of labour; working-class studies; globalization; neoliberalism; social reproduction; social inequality; ethnographies of capitalism; historical ethnography; strategically situated ethnography; and, the anthropology of Europe, particularly Ireland.
Honorary Professor
Honorary Research Professor
Research Interests: Historical Anthropology; the Anthropology of Labour, the State; Social Movements; Social Inequality; Nationalism and Imperialism; War and Popular Memory
Honorary Research Professor
Research Interests: Symbolic and Social Anthropology; North American Aboriginal Peoples; Religion, Ritual and Symbolism; Colonialism; Aboriginal Rights; Non-Western lLand Tenure and Political Development; Subsistence Economics and Indigenous Knowledge; Canada; Oceania
Former Faculty
- Dr. Robert Paine
- Dr. Jean Briggs
- Dr. G. Inglis
- Dr. L. Chariamonte
- Dr. Elliott Leyton
- Dr. John Kennedy
- Dr. David Natcher
- Dr. Lynne Phillips
- Dr. Tom Nemic
- Dr. Raoul Andersen
- Dr. Wayne Fife
- Dr. Mark Tate
- Dr. Reade Davis
- Dr. August Carbonella
- Dr. Adrian Tanner
- Dr. Gerald Sider
- Dr. Sandrine Jean