On this page: Department Professors听触 Associate Members听触听Adjunct Professors听
Department Chair: Katherine Lemons
Undergraduate Program Director:听Hillary Kaell
Graduate Program Director:听Peter Johansen
Department Professors
Diana Allan听(on leave)
Associate Professor听and Canada Research Chair in Anthropology of Living Archives
Research Interests:听Anthropology of Palestine and the Middle East; refugees and migration; visual anthropology and ethnographic film; political economy; nationalism; citizenship; anthropology of the sea; fishing; archives; oral history
Contact:听Office: Leacock 922; Phone: (514) 396 1987; Email: diana.allan [at] mcgill.ca (Diana Allan)
Alyssa Bader
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous archaeology; community-based research methods; Indigenizing the lab; ethics of paleo/genomic research with Indigenous peoples; bioarchaeology of health; diet; human microbiome; Indigenous biological resilience; Indigenous peoples in Pacific Northwest of North America
Contact: Office: Leacock 715 ; Email: alyssa.bader [at] mcgill.ca (Alyssa Bader)
Samuele Collu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:听medical anthropology, anthropology of psychic life, affect theory, critical phenomenology, queer theory, anthropology of rituals and therapeutic transformation, anthropology of intimacy and abusive relationships, anthropology of screens, dispositifs, the making and unmaking of subjectivity, spirit possession.
Contact:听Email:听samuele.collu [at] mcgill.ca (Samuele Collu)
Nicole Couture听
Associate Professor
Research Interests:听Archaeology and ethnohistory, comparative urbanism, gender and archaeology, monumental space, social life of death, material culture, Latin America, Bolivian and Peruvian Andes
Contact:听Office: Leacock 737; Phone: (514) 398 4296; Email: nicole.c.couture [at] mcgill.ca (Nicole Couture)
John Galaty
Professor
Research Interests:听Pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation, legal anthropology, property and land tenure, social conflict and violence, ritual and age-organization, psychological anthropology, culture and semiotics, ethnohistory; nationalism,听ethnicity听and identity; eastern Africa
Contact:听Office: Leacock 724; Phone: (514) 398 1336; Email: john.galaty [at] mcgill.ca (John Galaty)
Sandra Teresa Hyde
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director 2017-2019 and 2023-present
Research Interests:听Medical Anthropology, critical public health, anthropology of epidemics, the body and addiction, ecological activism and health in China, HIV/AIDS and sex work in China, popular culture and film in China, feminist theory and sexuality studies.
Contact:听Office: Leacock 818; Phone: (514) 398 4292; Email: sandra.hyde [at] mcgill.ca (Sandra Hyde)
Peter Johansen
Associate Professor
Research Interests:听South Asian Archaeology; South India; politics; space, place and landscape; social distinctions and inequalities; materiality; techno-politics; ferrous metallurgy; ceramics; archaeological theory; Indigenous archaeologies.
Contact:听 Office: Leacock 733; Phone: (514) 398-1278; Email: peter.johansen [at] mcgill.ca (Peter Johansen)
Hillary Kaell
Associate听Professor and William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:听Cultural anthropology; anthropology of religion; Christianity; Messianic Judaism; material and sensory studies; capitalism and consumption; space, place and landscape; archival studies; global networks and imaginaries; North America, primarily the United States and Quebec.
Eduardo Kohn
Associate Professor and听Anthropology for the Ecozoic Lead
Research Interests:听Anthropology beyond the human, the anthropocene, experimental ethnographic methods, semiotics, human-animal relations, "nature" and ecological and environmental anthropology, self and personhood, Quichua, Amazonia, Ecuador
Contact:听Office: Ferrier 459; Phone: (514) 398 2810; Email:听eduardo.kohn [at] mcgill.ca (Eduardo Kohn)
Katherine Lemons
Associate Professor
Research Interests:听Cultural anthropology, anthropology of law, rhetoric and law, anthropology of religion, feminist anthropology; kinship,听gender听and sexuality; Islam, South Asia
Contact:听Office: Leacock 830; Phone: (514) 398 4295; Email: katherine.lemons [at] mcgill.ca (Katherine Lemons)
Setrag Manoukian
Associate Professor
Research Interests:听Social construction of knowledge, historicity, ethnography of texts, semiotics, critical theory, technology, anthropology and history of Iran, Iran
Contact:听Office: Morrice Hall 307; Phone: 514-398-4400 X09679; Email: setrag.manoukian [at] mcgill.ca (Setrag Manoukian)
Lisa Overholtzer听(on sabbatical)听
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:听Mesoamerican archaeology; Aztec and colonial central Mexico; empire; household archaeology; materiality; chronology and temporality; social identity; postcolonial theory; Indigenous archaeology; ceramics; provenance analyses; ancient DNA.
Contact:听Office: Leacock 723; Phone: (514) 398 4299; Email: lisa.overholtzer [at] mcgill.ca (Lisa Overholtzer)
Leslie Sabiston
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous futurities;听Anthropology of Settler Colonialism;听Political/legal anthropology;听medical/psychological anthropology;听Crime and violence;听Critical race theory;听Psychoanalysis;听Radical kinships;听Critical science studies;听Consciousness, self, and subjectivity
Contact:听Office: Leacock 722; Phone: (514) 396 1919;听 Email: leslie.sabiston [at] mcgill.ca (Leslie Sabiston)
Colin Scott听
Professor
Research Interests:听Environmental and ecological knowledge, indigenous cosmologies, land and sea tenure, the restructuring of rights, resource management and livelihoods; respect, reciprocity and communication among hunting, fishing and gathering peoples; James Bay Cree, Quebec, Torres Strait
Contact:听Office: Peterson Hall 342; Phone: (514) 398 4291; Email: colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott)
Lisa Stevenson
Associate Professor听and William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:听Medical and psychological anthropology, narrative and anthropology, violence and subjectivity, social and political theory, ethnographic film, Inuit, Canadian Arctic
Contact:听Office: Ferrier Building Rm 486; Phone: (514) 398 1647; Email: lisa.e.stevenson [at] mcgill.ca (Lisa Stevenson)
Ismael Vaccaro听(on leave)
Associate Professor
Research Interests:听Environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology/development, conservation policies, Southern Europe, Mexico
Contact:听Office: Leacock 723; Phone: (514) 398 5832; Email: ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro)
Associate Members
Laurence Kirmayer
James 污污草莓视频 Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry, 污污草莓视频 University
Research Interests: Cultural psychiatry, psychiatric anthropology, philosophy of psychiatry
Contact: 1033 Pine Avenue West; Phone: (514) 398 7302; Email: laurence.kirmayer [at] mcgill.ca (Laurence Kirmayer)
Michael Lifshitz
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,听Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry,听污污草莓视频 University and Jewish General Hospital
Contact: Email: michael.lifshitz2 [at] mcgill.ca
Todd Meyers
Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine
Social Studies of Medicine, 污污草莓视频 University
Contact: 3647 Peel Street, Room 210;听 Email: todd.meyers [at] mcgill.ca (Todd Meyers)
Kathleen Rice
Assistant Professor and听Canada Research Chair in the Medical Anthropology of Primary Care
Department of Family Medicine, 污污草莓视频 University
Contact: Email: kathleen.rice [at] mcgill.ca (Katherine Rice)
Sahar Sadjadi
Assistant Professor,听Social Studies of Medicine, 污污草莓视频 University
Contact: Email: sahar.sadjadi [at] mcgill.ca (Sahar Sadjadi)
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Adjunct Professors
Nadia Ferrara
Executive Director, Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
Research Interests:听Indigenous lived realities; personal narratives of trauma, resilience, healing; art therapy, diversity and social inclusion, cultural competence, victimology, sustainable community development; and the development of policies and legislation with First Nations, Inuit, and M茅tis that are place-based and meaningful on the ground
Contact: Phone: 613 960 3425;听Email: nadia.ferrara [at] mcgill.ca (Nadia Ferrara)
Research interests Indigenous law and rights; Afro-Descendant law and rights; legal anthropology (legal pluralities, anthropology of illegality, legal ontologies); activist research and ethnography; decoloniality; intersectionality; resilience and natural resources management (extractives, protected areas, common property theory and practice); environmental/climate justice; effects of armed conflict; violence; Americas; Indigenous-to-Indigenous and inter-ethnic collaboration; development policy.
Contact: Email: viviane.weitzner [at] mcgill.ca
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