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Faculty

On this page: Department ProfessorsÌý´¥ Associate MembersÌý´¥ÌýAdjunct ProfessorsÌý

Department Chair: Katherine Lemons
Undergraduate Program Director:ÌýHillary Kaell
Graduate Program Director:ÌýPeter Johansen

Department Professors

Diana AllanÌý(on leave)
Associate ProfessorÌýand Canada Research Chair in Anthropology of Living Archives
Research Interests:ÌýAnthropology 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:ÌýOffice: 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:Ìýmedical 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:ÌýEmail:Ìýsamuele.collu [at] mcgill.ca (Samuele Collu)

Nicole CoutureÌý
Associate Professor
Research Interests:ÌýArchaeology and ethnohistory, comparative urbanism, gender and archaeology, monumental space, social life of death, material culture, Latin America, Bolivian and Peruvian Andes
Contact:ÌýOffice: Leacock 737; Phone: (514) 398 4296; Email: nicole.c.couture [at] mcgill.ca (Nicole Couture)

John Galaty
Professor
Research Interests:ÌýPastoralism, 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,ÌýethnicityÌýand identity; eastern Africa
Contact:ÌýOffice: 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:ÌýMedical 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:ÌýOffice: Leacock 818; Phone: (514) 398 4292; Email: sandra.hyde [at] mcgill.ca (Sandra Hyde)

Peter Johansen
Associate Professor
Research Interests:ÌýSouth Asian Archaeology; South India; politics; space, place and landscape; social distinctions and inequalities; materiality; techno-politics; ferrous metallurgy; ceramics; archaeological theory; Indigenous archaeologies.
Contact:Ìý Office: Leacock 733; Phone: (514) 398-1278; Email: peter.johansen [at] mcgill.ca (Peter Johansen)

Hillary Kaell
AssociateÌýProfessor and William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:ÌýCultural 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 andÌýAnthropology for the Ecozoic Lead
Research Interests:ÌýAnthropology 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:ÌýOffice: Ferrier 459; Phone: (514) 398 2810; Email:Ìýeduardo.kohn [at] mcgill.ca (Eduardo Kohn)

Katherine Lemons
Associate Professor
Research Interests:ÌýCultural anthropology, anthropology of law, rhetoric and law, anthropology of religion, feminist anthropology; kinship,ÌýgenderÌýand sexuality; Islam, South Asia
Contact:ÌýOffice: Leacock 830; Phone: (514) 398 4295; Email: katherine.lemons [at] mcgill.ca (Katherine Lemons)

Setrag Manoukian
Associate Professor
Research Interests:ÌýSocial construction of knowledge, historicity, ethnography of texts, semiotics, critical theory, technology, anthropology and history of Iran, Iran
Contact:ÌýOffice: Morrice Hall 307; Phone: 514-398-4400 X09679; Email: setrag.manoukian [at] mcgill.ca (Setrag Manoukian)

Lisa OverholtzerÌý(on sabbatical)Ìý
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:ÌýMesoamerican 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:ÌýOffice: Leacock 723; Phone: (514) 398 4299; Email: lisa.overholtzer [at] mcgill.ca (Lisa Overholtzer)

Leslie Sabiston
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous futurities;ÌýAnthropology of Settler Colonialism;ÌýPolitical/legal anthropology;Ìýmedical/psychological anthropology;ÌýCrime and violence;ÌýCritical race theory;ÌýPsychoanalysis;ÌýRadical kinships;ÌýCritical science studies;ÌýConsciousness, self, and subjectivity
Contact:ÌýOffice: Leacock 722; Phone: (514) 396 1919;Ìý Email: leslie.sabiston [at] mcgill.ca (Leslie Sabiston)

Colin ScottÌý
Professor
Research Interests:ÌýEnvironmental 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:ÌýOffice: Peterson Hall 342; Phone: (514) 398 4291; Email: colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott)

Lisa Stevenson
Associate ProfessorÌýand William Dawson Scholar
Research Interests:ÌýMedical and psychological anthropology, narrative and anthropology, violence and subjectivity, social and political theory, ethnographic film, Inuit, Canadian Arctic
Contact:ÌýOffice: Ferrier Building Rm 486; Phone: (514) 398 1647; Email: lisa.e.stevenson [at] mcgill.ca (Lisa Stevenson)

Ismael VaccaroÌý(on leave)
Associate Professor
Research Interests:ÌýEnvironmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology/development, conservation policies, Southern Europe, Mexico
Contact:ÌýOffice: Leacock 723; Phone: (514) 398 5832; Email: ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro)


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Associate Members

Laurence Kirmayer
James ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ 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,ÌýDivision of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry,Ìý¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ 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, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University
Contact: 3647 Peel Street, Room 210;Ìý Email: todd.meyers [at] mcgill.ca (Todd Meyers)

Kathleen Rice
Assistant Professor andÌýCanada Research Chair in the Medical Anthropology of Primary Care
Department of Family Medicine, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University
Contact: Email: kathleen.rice [at] mcgill.ca (Katherine Rice)

Sahar Sadjadi
Assistant Professor,ÌýSocial Studies of Medicine, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ 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:ÌýIndigenous 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 Métis that are place-based and meaningful on the ground
Contact: Phone: 613 960 3425;ÌýEmail: 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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