Dept. of Anthropology
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Maya Daurio, PhD Candidate
- Wildfire
- disaster
- disaster recovery
- flooding
- Lived experiences of wildfire
- Cascading hazards and consequences of disaster
- Human-environment dimensions of wildfire and disaster
- Member of the UBC Disaster Resilience Research Network
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Dr. Michael Blake, PhD
Professor Emeritus
- Archaeology of Mexico and Central America
- Origins and spread of agriculture–especially maize (corn) and cacao (chocolate)
- Archaeology of the First Nations peoples of British Columbia (especially in the Salish Sea and Fraser River regions)
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R.G. Matson
Professor Emeritus
- Prehistoric Archaeology of B.C.
- Southern Coastal B.C.
- Southern Interior B.C.
- Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest
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Dr. Charles Menzies
Professor
- Fisheries crises
- traditional ecological knowledge
- local ecological knowledge
- social inequality
- neo-liberalism
- Tsimshian
- Brittany
- Ireland
- maritime communities
- coastal communities
- ethnoecology
- First Nations land claims
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Patricia A. Shaw
Professor
- First Nations languages
- endangered languages
- language revitalization
- community capacity-building for language sustainability
- archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages
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Zhichun Jing, PhD
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Pacific Asia Archaeology
- archaeology
- ancient China
- ancient technologies
- jades
- geoarchaeology
- prehistory
- bronze
- Shang civilization
- early Chinese civilizations
- Bronzes
- material culture
- anthropocene
- early urbanization
- ancient cities
- ancient globalization
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Susan Rowley, PhD
Associate Professor and Curator
- Museums
- collaboration
- archaeology
- material culture
- repatriation
- Arctic
- the North
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Bruce Granville Miller
Professor Emeritus
- Aboriginal peoples of North America
- Coast Salish peoples
- aboriginal law
- aboriginal politics
- concepts of indigeneity
- human rights and Indigenous peoples
- law and society
- oral history evidence in court
- comparative studies of aboriginal-state relations