Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings

McGill University

Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 2T7, Canada
T: 514 398 4300; F: 514 398 7476
W: http://www.mcgill.ca/anthropology

Full-time Faculty

Donald W Attwood (PhD, McGill U, 1974; Prof ) Political economy and ecology, household enterprises, micro-demography, cooperatives, cash cropping, irrigation; S Asia

Michael S Bisson (PhD, U California-Santa Barbara, 1976; Assoc Prof) Arch, Middle Paleolithic, Iron Age, experimental arch, lithic typology, metallurgical and lithic technology; Central Africa, Europe

Laurel Bossen (PhD, State U New York-Albany, 1978; Professor) Gender and development, economic anthropology, rural households and communities, and complex societies; China, Latin America, Guatemala

Colin A Chapman (PhD, U Alberta, 1987; Prof; Canada Research Chair; jt appt with McGill School of Environment) Primate behavioral ecology; evolution of social systems and group size; conservation biology; tropical forest regeneration; freshwater fish ecology; plant phenology and animal interactions (seed dispersal); Africa, especially Uganda

Andre Costopoulos (PhD, Oulu U, Finland, 1999; Asst Prof) Evolution of social complexity, quantitative and computational methods in archaeology, agent-based simulation in anthropology, prehistoric exchange networks, prehistory of northern Europe

Nicole C Couture (PhD, U Chicago, 2002; Asst Prof, Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Early Urbanism) Archaeology and ethnohistory, comparative urbanism, gender and archaeology, social life of death, material culture; Latin America, especially Bolivian and Peruvian Andes

John G Galaty (PhD, U Chicago, 1977; Assoc Prof) Pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation; legal anthropology, property and land tenure; social conflict and violence; nationalism, ethnicity and identity; ritual and age-organisation, psychological anthropology; culture and semiotics; ethnohistory; eastern Africa

Sandra T Hyde (PhD, UC Berkeley/San Francisco, 1999; Assoc Prof) Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, feminist theory, gender/sexuality, East Asian Studies, HIV/AIDS; China

Eduardo O. Kohn (PhD, U W-Madison, 2002; Asst Prof) Anthropology of life, semiotics, human-animal relations, "nature" and ecological and environmental anthropology; Amazonia, Ecuador, Quichua

Carmen Lambert (PhD, McGill U, 1974; Assoc Prof) Social change, modernisation, urbanisation, social class and ethnic identity, N American native peoples

Setrag Manoukian (PhD, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001; Asst Prof ; jt appt with Institute of Islamic Studies) Knowledge: study of the social processes through which knowledge is constituted and transmitted in Iran

Ronald Niezen (PhD, Cambridge U, 1987; Prof; Canada Research Chair) Legal and political anthropology, religious conversion and social change, international movement of indigenous peoples, globalisation and identity, history of anthropology; West Africa, North America, especially Canadian Subarctic

Kristin Norget (PhD, Cambridge U, 1993; Assoc Prof) Popular religion, globalisation and religion, popular culture, semiotic theory, discourse and representation, festivals/rituals, aesthetics/performance theory; Mexico, Latin America, Caribbean

Jérôme Rousseau (PhD, U Cambridge, 1974; Prof) Evolution of societies, simulations of societies, social inequality, epistemology; Borneo

Philip Carl Salzman (PhD, U Chicago, 1972; Prof) Nomadism and pastoralism, tribal society and its transformations, peasant and post-peasant society, mass media; Middle East, Mediterranean

James M Savelle (PhD, U Alberta, 1986; Assoc Prof) Archaeology, zooarchaeology, hunter-gatherers; Arctic

Colin H Scott (PhD, McGill U, 1983; Assoc Prof) Indigenous ecological knowledge, land and sea tenure systems, resource management, political discourse, aboriginal rights; Algonkian Subarctic, Torres Strait Islanders

Lisa E Stevenson (PhD, U California, Berkeley, 2005; Asst Prof) Medical and psychological anthropology, narrative and anthropology, violence and subjectivity, social and political theory, ethnographic film; Inuit, Canadian arctic

Ismael Vaccaro (PhD, U Washington, 2005; Asst Prof; jt appt with McGill School of Environment) Environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology/development, conservation policies; Southern Europe, Mexico, Pacific Northwest

Allan Young (PhD, U Pennsylvania, 1970; Prof, jt appt with Social Studies of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine) Comparative medical systems, anthropology of science, anthropology of psychiatry; Ethiopia

Retired Faculty

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

Margaret Lock

Toby Morantz

Associate Member

Ellen Corin (PhD, Louvain, 1970; Professor) Psychological anthropology, cultural psychiatry, culture and psychosis, figures of otherness, limit- experiences and spirituality; Africa, India

Adjunct Faculty

Nadia Ferrara PhD, U de Montréal, 2002; First Nation issues in health, policy and traditional values, ways of healing, art therapy, transcultural psychiatry, community cohesion and cultural resilience; Canada

 Vinh-Kim Nguyen (PhD, McGill U, 2001; MD, U de Montréal, 1990; Assoc Prof) medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS; West Africa

Chair:  Michael S Bisson

Administrative Assistant: Rose Marie Stano

Anthropologists in Other Departments, Schools or Institutes

Ludger Müller-Wille (DrPhil, Münster, 1971; Assoc Prof, Geography) Northern peoples, socioeconomic development in circumpolar regions, geographical perceptions and toponymy of indigenous people; circumpolar region, Canada, Finland

George Wenzel (PhD, McGill U, 1980; Prof, Geography) Inuit, hunter-gatherers, kinship and social organisation, cultural ecology; Arctic

Special programmes

Our department has six concentrations: social systems and sociocultural change; development studies with reference to Canada, Africa, Asia and Latin America; symbolic and cognitive anthropology; cultural analysis; prehistoric archaeology; primatology. Medical anthropology with special reference to cultural aspects of health and illness is offered jointly with the Department of Social Studies of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine.

Special resources and facilities

The interdisciplinary Centre for Society, Technology and Development, STANDD) provides financial assistance, office space, computers and other facilities for students working on development-oriented topics.  The department has new archaeological laboratory facilities offering analytical space and equipment for graduate students.