University of Manitoba Anthropology

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01/10/2023

Meet sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor Dr. Lara Rosenoff-Gauvin. She teaches a few courses in cultural anthropology and is interested in relational repair, and living through and after violence and conflict. When she is not involved with community-led projects, she is probably with her 2 young kids and husband in the woods near their home in Lorette.

“I am honoured that my time can be spent as co-chair of the University of Manitoba's Respectful Repatriation Ceremony – seeking peace and home for Indigenous Ancestors, belongings, biological materials, and tangible and intangible cultural expressions that have been stewarded by the University without proper and ongoing consent from Indigenous families, Nations, and communities. I also continue longstanding relationships with one extended family in Acoliland, Northern Uganda, working together on public dialogues about Acoli indigenous governance and law after the recent period of prolonged displacement and violence. Wherever I am, I am most interested in being useful to the families, Nations or communities I am working with.”

Check out the following links if you are interested in learning more about the collaborative projects she is involved in:

UBC Transformative Memory International Network: https://omeka.irshdc.ubc.ca/s/Transformative-Memory/page/welcome

CHRR at UM: https://chrr.info/

12/13/2022

Meet sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor Dr. Warren Clarke! He teaches a couple of courses in cultural anthropology and has an interest in anti-colonialism, youth outreach, and race and ethnicity.

Dr. Clarke focuses on sociocultural anthropology, with research in youth cultures, social citizenship, neoliberalism, gentrification, race & ethnicity, anti-colonialism, social justice, and masculinity. Dr. Clarke is also a consultant who leads anti-oppression and anti-racism(s) programs and workshops to create and sustain a more inclusive work environment and corporate diversity for Canadian organizations that seek to understand the complexity of managing diverse teams of different social identities and lived realities.

Check out his website here! https://warrenclarke.ca/ 
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11/29/2022

Meet archaeologist and associate professor Dr. Kent Fowler! He teaches several courses in archaeology, specializing in ceramics and the social organization of ancient populations. When he is not in the field or the lab examining pottery, he is watching movies or football, attempting to golf, looking after a pond full of fish, or spending time with family.

“My research examines social complexity in food producing societies. My particular interest is in how we use pottery function, style and technology to understand past lifeways. My main current project examines the fiscal foundation of precolonial autocratic African states through a multidisciplinary study of the nineteenth century Zulu kingdom in South Africa (Zulu Kingdom Archaeology Project). A second project investigates fingerprints on ancient pottery to identify the age and s*x of pottery makers and inform us about the organization of labour and learning crafts in ancient societies (Ancient Prints Project).

A range of other projects are being conducted in the Ceramic Technology Laboratory (CTL). CTL was founded in my research on precolonial pottery in southern Africa and my ethnographic and materials science research on modern Zulu and Swazi pottery. Research at CTL pursues interdisciplinary approaches to the study of pottery through combinations of ethnoarchaeology, ethnography, experimental archaeology, geochemistry, in addition to conventional pottery analysis methods to improve inferences about social behaviour through the study of pottery function, style and technology. Recent work has been focused geographically in South Africa, Europe, the Near East and central Canada.”

Check out his websites! https://anthctl.wordpress.com and
https://zulukingdomarchaeology.com

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11/15/2022

Meet bioarchaeologist and assistant professor Dr. Julia Gamble! She teaches several courses in human evolution and skeletal anatomy and specializes in health and disease in past populations. Her use of teeth to look at stress links to collaboration on ancient DNA, proteomics, and geochemical projects. When she is not looking at medieval teeth under a microscope, she is walking her dog Willow or cuddling with her cat, drinking tea, doing medieval re-enactment, or reading.

“My research investigates past health using a life course approach. I am interested in understanding the interactions between early life experiences (as represented by periods of developmental disruption captured in dental tissues) and later life health (as seen in human skeletal remains). This investigation includes a microscopic approach, as well as virtual recording. I am also interested in understanding diverse aspects of population health and demography through different methodologies. This led to work on pathogen DNA in medieval Denmark and to proteomics work for s*x estimation from dental enamel. Our recent publication in ‘Nature’ of findings from the pathogen DNA project identified significant natural selection from Black Death that impacted immune genes in ways that still affect modern populations (Klunk et al. 2022)! Recently, I’ve been collaborating with colleagues at the Naturhistorisches Museum (Vienna) on a project involving Avar period populations.

I also bring my skills as a human osteologist and archaeologist to the table towards repatriation efforts and assistance on residential school work with communities. This is all part of active engagement with reconciliation and of moving forward in positive ways with Indigenous communities and peoples.

My projects involve collaboration internally with the Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology, Earth Materials and Archaeometry Research Centre, and externally with McMaster University (McMaster Ancient DNA Centre), University of Southern Denmark (ADBOU), University of Waterloo, University of Alberta, Naturhistorisches Museum (Wien), and the Assiniboine Park Conservancy.

Nature article in bio!

04/20/2022

"The colour of someone’s skin doesn’t equate to definitive sameness" -- An article by one of our faculty members, Warren Clarke

04/20/2022

"Famine, tea, and bread in Ireland: C282Y and modern human microevolution" -- Check out Stacie Burke's free access article at the link below

The HFE gene variant allele C282Y connected with hereditary hemochromatosis occurs at a frequency of about 10%–11% in Ireland, the highest known frequency in the modern global population. In this syn...

04/20/2022

One of our grad students featured in UM Today!

When a loved one goes missing the search for closure can last a lifetime. Currently the RCMP have more than 700 unidentified human remains in their national database with no way to link these victims