Faculty and Staff

Marcia Calkowski

  • Associate Professor
  • Department Head
  • PhD, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

  • religion, ritual, performance, Tibet, Himalayas, transnationalism, medical anthropology

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010, ANTH 402 Theory in Anthropology II

Daniel Holbrow

Member
  • Sessional lecturer
  • MA, University of Regina

Research Interests

  • morality, economy, memory, materiality

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology, ANTH 230 Ethnography of Southeast Asia

Susanne Kuehling

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, Australian National University

Research Interests

  • gift exchange, place, personhood, migration, gender, ethics, Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia)

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 248 Ethnography of Papua New Guinea, ANTH 496AB Anthropology of Landscape

Gediminas Lankauskas

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests

  • religion, morality, social memory, "modernity", nationalism, the state, popular culture in postsocialist Lithuania, Eastern Europe

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 240 Popular Culture, ANTH 307 Anthropology of Ritual

Carlos Londoño Sulkin

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, University of St. Andrews

Research Interests

  • the anthropology of morality, performativity, contingency, indigenous Amazonia

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 333 Ethnographic Research, ANTH 853 Advanced Ethnographic Research

Tobias Sperlich

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • DPhil, University of Oxford

Research Interests

  • Polynesia (esp. Samoa, New Zealand), Museum Ethnography, History of Anthropology, Anthropology of Art, Material Culture, Tourism

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology, ANTH 313 Material Culture and Consumption

Charisma Thomson

Member
  • Sessional lecturer
  • MA, Carleton University

Research Interests

  • ritual, symbolic anthropology, performance, material culture, popular culture, North America, medical anthropology

Current Classes

  • Winter 2010; ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology