Faculty and Instructors

Faculty 

Maximilian Viatori
Maximilian Viatori
Department Head & Professor

Research Interests: Environmental anthropology; inequality; knowledge/ignorance; governance; climate change; ocean studies; fisheries; Peru, Ecuador, and Canada

Maximilian Viatori's webpage

T: (709) 864-8860 | E: mviatori@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC4008 |

Sharon Roseman
Sharon Roseman
Professor

Research Interests: Historical Anthropology; Memory; Anthropology of Labour; Critical Mobility and Migration Studies; Feminist Anthropology; Food Studies; Translation Studies; Minoritized Languages

Sharon Roseman's webpage

T: (709) 864-2452 | E: sroseman@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC4007 |

Lincoln Addison
Lincoln Addison
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

Lincoln Addison's webpage

T: (709) 864-7818 | E: laddison@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC-4021 |

Rex Clark
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Marxian Anthropology; Class and Culture; Social Inequality; Newfoundland and Shetland Islands Ethnography

Rex Clark's webpage

T: (709) 864-8889 | E: rexclark@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC-4006 |

Kathleen Gordon
Kathleen Gordon
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Anthropology of Development, Economic Processes, Labour and Work, Household Production and Politics; Latin America and the Andes

Kathleen Gordon's webpage

T: (709) 864-8857 | E: kgordon@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC-4025 |

Robin Whitaker
Robin Whitaker
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.

Robin Whitaker's webpage

T: (709) 864-7451 | E: robinw@mun.ca | O: Queen's College, QC-4004 |

Daria Boltokova
Daria Boltokova
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

Daria Boltokova's webpage

E: dboltokova@mun.ca | O: QC-4026 |

Adjunct Professor

Damian Castro
Damian Castro
Adjunct Professor

Research Interests: Arctic Ontologies; Polar Diplomacy; Cooperative Food Sharing; Northern Social Economy; Reindeer/Caribou Management and Relashionships to Humans

Damian Castro's webpage

T: (709) 864-2111 | E: damianc@mun.ca | O: QC4011 |

Reade Davis
Reade Davis
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

Reade Davis' webpage

E: readed@nipissingu.ca |

Andrea Procter
Andrea Procter
Adjunct Professor

Research Interests: Decolonization; Indigenous Self-governance; Residential Schools; Natural Resource Conflicts; Indigenous-settler Collaborative Research and Writing; Settler Colonialism; Settler Narratives; Labrador

Andrea Procter's webpage

E: andrea.procter@mun.ca |

Ario Seto
Ario Seto
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

Ario Seto's webpage

E: aseto@mun.ca |

Carolina Tytelman
Carolina Tytelman
Adjunct Professor

Research Interests: Forest Co-Management in Nitassinan/Labrador; Indigenous Places and the Development of Muskrat Falls; Relationship Between Humans and Rangifer

Carolina Tytelman's webpage

E: carolinat@mun.ca |

Mario Blaser
Mario Blaser
Cross-appointed Professor

Research Interests: The Politics of Colonization/Decolonization; Indigenous Communities in Paraguay and Labrador; Resource Conflicts; Hunting Ban of Caribou; Political Ontology

Mario Blaser's webpage

E: mblaser@mun.ca | O: QC-4017 |

Per-course Instructor

Josh Lalor
Josh Lalor
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.



Josh Lalor's webpage

E: jd.lalor@mun.ca |

Honorary Professor

August Carbonella
August Carbonella
Honorary Research Professor

Research Interests: Historical Anthropology; the Anthropology of Labour, the State; Social Movements; Social Inequality; Nationalism and Imperialism; War and Popular Memory

August Carbonella's webpage

T: (709) 864-8860 | E: augustc@mun.ca | O: QC-4008 |

Adrian Tanner
Adrian Tanner
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

Adrian Tanner's webpage

T: (709) 864-8868 | E: atanner@mun.ca | O: QC-4003 |

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