Assistant Professor Ayesha Omer, from the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in the School of Social Science for the 2025-26 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas […]
Four 91亚色 community members were recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their contributions to equity, social justice and Indigenous engagement. One of the honorees was Ana Speranza (BA 鈥18, MA 鈥21), a social anthropology and law graduate, who received the Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella Prize. This award is presented each year […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies聽welcomes 10 new full-time, permanent members this fall.
Canada鈥檚 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $5,786,741 in federal funding to 91亚色 researchers as part of the Insight Grants program. The funding supports 34 projects and builds on an additional $1.7M in funding that 91亚色 researchers recently received through SSHRC Insight Development Grants, supporting scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Half […]
Canada鈥檚 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $1.7 million in federal funding to 91亚色 researchers as part of the Insight Development Grants program. The program will provide funding for projects lasting up to two years, supporting a broad range of topics and disciplines as researchers investigate key societal challenges. A number […]
On May 1, 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Anthropology hosted an engaging and hands-on Anthropology Day workshop for 75 students from Bur Oak Secondary School. Held in the new CoLearn Active Learning Classrooms on the Keele campus and supported by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), the event introduced students to the discipline […]
Department of Anthropology Professor David A.B. Murray has published an anthology on the history of queer anthropology, a subfield of sociocultural anthropology with both activist and academic origins. Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of sociocultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades and responses to emerging challenges. […]
Emma Feltes, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been involved in an important project documenting the ways in which Indigenous communities are providing emergency responses to a landslide in the T艥ilhqot鈥檌n territory in central B.C. Feltes worked in collaboration with researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) to document emergency responses to […]
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the 2025 Anthropology Annual Lecture with distinguished lecturer and anthropologist, Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins. Join us on Thursday, March 20, as Stamatopoulou-Robbins traces Palestinians鈥 experiences of鈥痺aste in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.鈥 This lecture will offer an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine, beginning with the environmental, infrastructural and […]
The Department of Anthropology would like to give a warm welcome to Kennedy Opande, PhD. He is a LA&PS postdoctoral fellow at 91亚色, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, which he earned in 2024. For his PhD, he conducted a study on anthropology of life under the title […]