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Bianca Dahl

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Affect/emotion
  • Africa
  • Anthropological demography
  • Botswana
  • Children
  • HIV & AIDS
  • Human rights
  • Humanitarianism and international development
  • Kinship and childhood
  • Medical and sociocultural anthropology
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Social stigma
  • Sociocultural Anthropology

Office: 416-208-2699
Languages: French
Website
Email: bianca.dahl@utoronto.ca
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Bonnie McElhinny

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critiques of Settler-Colonialism
  • Great Lakes
  • Language politics
  • Water and environmental justice

Office: +1 (416) 978-3297
Languages: English
Website
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Sellen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioral ecology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Global health
  • Human ecology
  • Human evolution
  • Human nutrition
  • Infant and young child feeding practices

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: dan.sellen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Print/Online

David Begun

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Anatomy
  • Ape evolution
  • Comparative primate anatomy
  • Europe
  • Functional anatomy
  • Human and primate evolution
  • Human origins
  • Miocene apes
  • Paleoanthropology
  • Paleobiogeography
  • systematics
  • West Eurasia
  • Western Asia

Office: +1 (416) 978-8850
Mobile: +1 (647) 854-6597
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: begun@chass.utoronto.ca
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Dylan Clark

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental issues
  • Foodways
  • Gender studies
  • Gifts and commodities
  • Indonesia
  • Popular culture
  • Reciprocity
  • Urban studies
  • Youth studies

Office: 416-946-8975
Home: 416-778-9057
Mobile: 647-774-4184
Website
Email: dylan.clark@utoronto.ca
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Edward Banning

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Achaeological survey
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Built environments
  • Chalcolithic Early Bronze
  • Jordan
  • Levant
  • Microarchaeology
  • Microrefuse
  • Middle East
  • Neolithic
  • Networks
  • Prehistory
  • Radiocarbon
  • Southwest Asia

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ted.banning@utoronto.ca

Genevieve Dewar

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age
  • Adaptive plasticity
  • Africa
  • Archaeology
  • Bio-Archaeology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Hunter-gatherers
  • Late Woodland Period of the Great Lakes
  • Lesotho
  • Marginal environments
  • Middle Stone Age of Africa
  • Origins of modern human behaviour
  • Settlement patterns
  • South Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Subsistence strategies

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-985-0366
Website
Email: genevieve.dewar@utoronto.ca
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Hilary Cunningham

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal studies
  • Animals
  • Environmental studies
  • Multispecies Research
  • Posthumanism

Office: +1 (416) 978-0472
Website
Email: hilary.cunningham@utoronto.ca

Hy Van Luong

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • East and Mainland South East Asia
  • Family and gender
  • ideology and political economy, gender and social structure
  • Language
  • Migration
  • Political economy
  • Sociocultural Anthropology
  • South and Southeast Asia
  • Vietnam

Office: 416-946-8985
Home: 416-481-5185
Mobile: 416-481-5185
Website
Email: vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca
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Laura Bolt

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behaviour
  • Conservation biology
  • Forest fragmentation
  • Primate behavioural ecology
  • Primate communication

Office: N/A
Website
Email: laura.bolt@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Marcel Danesi

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Europe
  • Linguistic anthropology
  • Millennial culture
  • North America
  • Popular culture
  • Pressure to set resolutions
  • Research Keywords, Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, youth culture
  • Research Region, Italy, France, North America
  • Semiotics
  • Youth culture

Office: N/A
Home: 416-247-5909
Mobile: 647-408-5909
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca
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Nicole Novroski

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Forensic biology
  • Forensic DNA analysis
  • Human identification
  • Missing person(s) and human remain(s) identification using DNA
  • Population genetics

Office: (905) 569-4627
Mobile: 315-709-2424
Website
Email: nicole.novroski@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Evil
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Psychopaths
  • Serial killers
  • violence

Office: (647) 575-4196
Languages: English, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
Website
Email: rosenberg.larsen@utoronto.ca
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Sandra Bamford

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural anthropology
  • Embodiment
  • Europe
  • Foster care
  • Gender
  • Kinship
  • Kinship studies
  • North America
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Science and technology
  • Sex and gender
  • The anthropology of science
  • The Pacific

Office: (416) 287-7301
Languages: Tok Pisin
Website
Email: sandra.bamford@utoronto.ca
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Shawn Lehman

Professor

Shawn Lehman

Areas of Expertise

  • Primate conservation

Office: +1 (416) 978-4003
Languages: English
Website
Email: shawn.lehman@utoronto.ca
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Stephen Bede Scharper

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ecological worldviews
  • Environmental ethics
  • Environmental worldviews
  • Liberation theology and ecology
  • Religion and ecology
  • Sustainability

Office: 416-588-2764
Website
Email: stephen.scharper@utoronto.ca
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T. Bence Viola

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient DNA
  • Central and North Asia
  • Central and Northern Asia
  • Central Europe
  • Europe
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Human evolution
  • Modern Human Origins
  • Neanderthals
  • Palaeoanthropology

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,German,Hungarian
Website
Email: bence.viola@utoronto.ca

Tracy Rogers

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Body search
  • Forensic anthropology
  • Human remains

Office: (905) 828-5449
Website
Email: tracy.rogers@utoronto.ca
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