色花堂 and Staff
色花堂 and Staff
Full Time
L. Eastham
902-491-6447 (MS225)
PhD (Toronto), Assistant Professor, Evolutionary anthropology; primate paleobiology; paleoecology; stable isotopes; trace elements; human niche construction; developmental plasticity
J. Fowler
902-420-5631 (MS226)
DPhil (Oxford), Professor. Archaeology and colonialism; landscape archaeology; material culture and identity; archaeological geophysics; public archaeology.
E.Henry (Chair)
902-420-5629 (MS227)
PhD (Cornell), Professor. Linguistic anthropology; China; global languages (English and Chinese); language teaching; modernity and cosmopolitanism.
R. Higgins
902-420-5627 (MS215)
PhD (Arizona), Associate Professor. Socio-cultural anthropology; the anthropology of food labour and marginality; social class, gender and consumerism; visual anthropology; engaged and public anthropology; United States and Viet Nam.
M. MacCarthy
902-420-5059 (MS219)
PhD (Auckland). Assistant Professor. Socio-cultural anthropology; The Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea/Oceania; Anthropology of tourism; gender; economic anthropology; Christianity, witchcraft and sorcery; methods and theory.
T. R. Peckmann
902-496-8719 (MS217)
PhD (Cape Town, South Africa), Full Professor. Forensic Anthropology; Indigenous peoples of Canada and South Africa; Human skeletal morphometrics.
Cross Appointment
Karen McAllister
(IDST) 902-420-5557 (MS429)
PhD (McGill). Anthropology of Development, Environmental Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Southeast Asia, ethnic minorities, land and resource rights, agriculture, environmental conservation, resistance
Adjunct
PhD (Dalhousie), Curator of Archaeology, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. Historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; African diaspora archaeology; Atlantic World history; urban archaeology; proto-historic/fur trade period archaeology; Maritime region pre-contact archaeology.
DPhil (Oxford), President, Dominion Heritage Consulting / Curator, Pictou County Historical Society. Historical archaeology; museums; heritage; oral history.
PhD (New Brunswick), Part-time 色花堂 (Anthropology) Saint Mary's University. Cultural anthropology; indigenous science education; circumpolar studies and research; applied research/community development; youth cultures; cultural landscapes; climate change.
Professor Emeritus
S. A. Davis
DPhil (Oxford), Professor. Archaeology of the anonymous; archaeological evaluation of excavations; Canadian prehistory; historical archaeology; world prehistory.
Part Time
A. Taylor
Aaron Taylor has worked as a professional archaeologist for almost a decade and is the senior archaeologist and president of True North Archaeological Consultants & Associates. He has participated and led excavations on both historical and pre-contact sites. Some of these include excavations at the Grand Pre UNESCO World Heritage site, Beachville Black Refugee site, Gaspereau Lake Pre-contact site, Prescott House Public Archaeology Program, and the Planters’ Barracks Inn Public Archaeology Program, to name a few. He is also a part-time instructor at Acadia University in the History Department and a part-time faculty member in the Anthropology Department at Saint Mary’s University.
He holds a BA degree from Acadia University, an Honours BA in Anthropology and an MA in Historical Archaeology from Saint Mary’s University. He holds a PhD in the IDPhD program at Dalhousie University. His thesis research examines sea-level rise, drowned landscapes and predicting settlement patterns of pre-contact societies in the Maritime Provinces.
Aaron has traveled extensively throughout Latin America spending a great deal of time in Mexico and Cuba and is fluent in Spanish. He lives with his wife and two daughters on a small hobby farm in the Annapolis Valley.
Staff
Wesley Weatherbee
Laboratory Technician, MS 228
Zhanar Kaiyrova
Administrative Secretary, MS218