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Academic Year End Message from the Department
Head, Dr. Alexia Bloch
UBC DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY NEWSLETTER
anthropology
As we wrap up this academic year and look toward the next I am inspired by the
resilience, resourcefulness and sense of community among faculty, students, & staff in
the Department of Anthropology. Our year was defined by the familiar rhythm of
academic rituals and annual professional events. The year began with a transition of
Headship in the Department. November brought the joint CASCA-AAA meetings to
our city for the first time and with these we had a chance to showcase Vancouver,
UBC, and our Department. Early in the year we also bid farewell to Prof. Pokotylo as he retired from the
University after 40 years. Now, as the year concludes, we say goodbye to three more colleagues who
are retiring after decades of service, teaching, and research; Profs. Shaw, Barker, and Blake have been
integral to UBC’s intellectual community. We look forward to marking our colleagues’ rites of passage
and celebrating their contributions face-to-face, hopefully in spring 2021.
Just as the academic year was winding down our classroom learning, research, and broader intellectual
pursuits were thrown into disarray. In mid-March with the onset of a global pandemic of Covid-19, UBC,
like institutions of higher education across the world, turned to online teaching. This “pivot” in such a short
time on the part of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students was truly heroic. The university
announced the switch on a Friday afternoon, and by the following Monday we had all moved into a
new virtual reality. Faculty and students valiantly worked out ways to wrap up the remaining weeks of
the term, even as many struggled with working from home. B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry’s
no nonsense dictum, “Be kind, be calm, be safe” became an essential daily cadence.
Even as we became more adept with teaching, holding meetings, and celebrating our graduates on-
line, we also came together to consider how the Department can meaningfully engage with the
movement to decry police violence and systemic racism perpetrated against Blacks, Indigenous
peoples, and other racialized groups across North America and beyond. As we look toward 2020-2021,
we are committed to expanding departmental initiatives in teaching, research, and public scholarship
to address questions of injustice and racialized inequalities.
We are fortunate to be joined in these endeavors by three new colleagues. Prof. Hugh Gusterson, a
dedicated public intellectual with expertise in the culture of militarism and science and technology
studies, comes to the Department from George Washington University. Prof. Tracey Heatherington joins
us from the University of Wisconsin, bringing her deep knowledge of environmental anthropology and
her wealth of expertise on the Mediterranean. And Dr. Amirpouyan Shiva, a recent graduate of the
University of Minnesota, and an expert on the Persian blogosphere, takes up an appointment as a
Lecturer.
Finally, I wish to congratulate students, staff, and faculty on all your accomplishments this past year. I
wish you well as you recharge over the summer months, pursue research, or begin preparing for the
coming academic year.
NEWS
Summer 2020 VOLUME 14, ISSUE 7, 2020
Announcements
Awards, Grants and Recognitions
Congratulations!
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Dr. Andrew Martindale has been promoted to
the rank of Full Professor (effective July 1). On behalf of the Department, we wish to
congratulate Andrew for his well-deserved accomplishment. Being granted Full Professor
is true recognition of Dr. Martindale's stellar scholarship, dedicated and rigorous teaching
and graduate supervision, and tireless service to the Department, the University, and a
number of Indigenous communities, especially the Musqueam and Kwantlen Indian Bands,
and the Saik’uz First Nation.
On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and writers. “Appointed on
the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were
chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-sixth
competition." It is a pleasure to announce that Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann was among those
awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for 2020-2021. The
official announcement, can be accessed at: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shaylih-
muehlmann/
Congratulations to Evan Koike, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department, who is shown in this
photo (front row middle) receiving a medal from the America-Japan Society for his research
on Japanese young peoples’ attitudes about modern fathering and masculinity. Evan Koike
was also one of the recipients of the Klaus Pringsheim Graduate Student Paper Prize awarded
at the last JSAC annual meetings held at Mt. Allison University.
Front row, left to right: Keiko Packard, Committee of Visit & Study Japan Program, Evan Koike, (Supervisor: Millie Creighton),
Kazuo Okamoto, Executive Director of the America-Japan Society (AJS). Back Row: left to right: Nana Yamamoto,
America-Japan Society student intern, Toshie Komatsu, member of the America-Japan Society, Takashi Watanabe,
Director of the America Japan Society, Chitoo Bunno, member of the America-Japan Society, Nanaka Nishimura,
America Japan Society student intern.
Congratulations Graduates of 2020!
First Ever Virtual graduation ceremony for the Anthropology Department (MAs, PhDs, BAs,
Majors, and Honours)
The Anthropology Department is
pleased to congratulate the Class of
2020 on its achievements. Despite an
unprecedented pandemic, UBC
students adapted quickly to the
necessary educational changes
required to ensure the safety of
physical distancing and self-isolation
while completing their studies.
The UBC Anthropology Department
celebrated its first-ever virtual
graduation ceremony Wednesday,
June 17, 2020, in an effort to
recognize graduates for their
accomplishments.
Over 165 Anthropology students,
faculty, staff, parents, friends and
family members joined from around
the globe for the virtual graduation.
ANTH News From The Field
COVID-19 and my field research in the Rohingya Refugee Camps: Field notes from Cox’s Bazar.
By Sultan Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate
respondents via telephone, Skype or Zoom. Over the last 3 weeks, I have observed many
changes in the aid work. One important change was that most aid agencies have reduced
the number of aid workers and frequency of their visits to the camps. Aid workers now visit
the camps mostly to deliver the most essential aid commodities such as food, fuels, medicine,
etc. but for other camp- based intervention, they use local and Rohingya volunteers to do
work for them in the camps. Overall, the coronavirus has greatly impacted the lives of aid
workers and the Rohingya refugees in the camps.
Until today, no COVID-19 cases have been reported among the Rohingya refugees. This does
not mean that the Rohingya refugees are not infected or affected by the pandemic. It simply
means the circovirus testing facilities are still not available for the Rohingya. Even for the host
population, this testing facility has only recently been established in the government hospital
in Cox’s Bazar, about 25-40 km from the camps. Many health experts urged government and
aid agencies to take immediate action to set up medical and isolation facilities for the
Rohingya camps but this has yet to happen. I have seen both local and international media
publishing alarming news and views on this. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR,
the UN Refugee organization, have already conducted a situation assessment indicating the
Rohingya refugees as a vulnerable group, and organizations have launched an appeal for
immediate funding.
I am doing my Ph.D. research
on humanitarian aid agencies
working in Cox’s Bazar, a district
in southeastern Bangladesh
which is now hosting one million
Rohingya refugees. I started my
fieldwork five months ago. I
have been busy collecting
data in Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar,
and the Rohingya camps. The
COVID-19 outbreak has put a
sudden pause on my fieldwork
in Cox’s Bazar, as I am now
back in Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, observing the field
situation and interviewing
‘How are you?’ Maintaining wellness during a
pandemic...
By Ezra Greene
Sending a couple pics from life in Nunavut during the pandemic. My family and I are waiting
the surge out from up North where luckily there are no confirmed cases so far. I’m working on
writing my thesis and getting out on the land when the weather is nice.
Millie Creighton - - From Wisteria
Growing to Dragon Boating
Beyond simply providing leisure
engagements, many interests and
activities people pursue help inspire
them in their work, relations, and
other arenas. Some pursuits I
engage in are wisteria growing and
dragon boating. I have trained a
purple wisteria along one complete
side of my house, and used a cutting
from it to grow another purple one
across the reverse side of the house
that meets and mingles with a white
wisteria coming to greet it from the
other side. The house was christened
at one of the Fuji-kai (wisteria
viewing gatherings), Millie-sensei no
Fuji no i.e. (Prof. Millie's wisteria
house). I include a photo from a
previous year's blooming.
By Eleanore Asuncion - - Virtual Support
It doesn’t matter where we are or what the situation is.
Life goes on... and our work continues. Anth support staff meet regularly with the Head and
discuss how we can assist you, including with virtual department meetings, trainings and
workshops, and appointments.
By Erika Balcombe
Clockwise from top left:
deformed yet yummy pancakes
for the kids (gotta keep them
alive); reading, reading, reading;
how I teach/learn/socialize now;
DIY home gym; side research
project: deep cleaning recipes;
clean laundry and tired feet.
Department of Anthropology: Return to Research
Training Session
The University is in a multi-stage approach to slowly bringing people back to campus.
Stage 1: Return to Research (ANSO started June 23, 2020) maximum 30% occupancy
Stage 2: Building Re-opening (starting 1 month after Stage 1) 60% occupancy
Stage 3: Business Operations Resume (most likely Aug – Sept) uncertain % occupancy
* Everything is contingent on Provincial Guidelines and the status of the pandemic
Department Brochure
You may access the Department Brochure here.
Awards, Grants, and Recognition
Students
Jad Brake
⚫ 2020. Graduate Fellowship in Applied Ethics for 2020-2021. The W. Maurice Young
Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC. https://ethics.ubc.ca/graduate-fellowship-in-applied-
ethics/
⚫ 2020. Dissertation Writing Award 2020, Department of Anthropology, UBC.
Emma Feltes
⚫ 2019. Dr. Alice E. Wilson Award, Canadian Federation of University Women.
Evan T. Koike
⚫ 2019. “Seeking Alternative Spaces: Japanese Fathers and Community Engagement,”
Klaus Pringsheim Student Award Competition 2019 Best Paper/Presentation Prize,
Japan Studies Association of Canada.
Emily Leischner
⚫ 2019. Public Scholars Award 2019-2020, UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/ubc-public-scholars-award
Mikayla Milne and Joshua Sarazin
⚫ 2019. Undergraduate students selected and granted funding to attend the AAA-
CASCA Conference. UBC Department of Anthropology
Fumiya Nagai
⚫ 2020-2021. The Uehiro Foundation of Ethics and Education Research Fellowship.
⚫ 2020. Jamaloddin Khanjani Family Scholarship, UBC School of Public Policy and Global
Affairs. https://support.ubc.ca/projects/jamaloddin-khanjani-family-scholarship/
Patrick Morgan Ritchie
⚫ 2019. Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship for Archaeology.
https://students.ubc.ca/enrolment/finances/award-search/vancouver/faculty-
2019 – 2020 Department Milestones
arts/department-anthropology/409
⚫ 2019. Killiam Doctoral Scholarship 2019-2020, UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/killam-doctoral-scholarships
Christopher Smith
⚫ 2020. The Michael Ames Scholarship in Museum Studies.
https://students.ubc.ca/enrolment/finances/award-search/vancouver/faculty-
arts/department-anthropology/1296
⚫ 2019. The Kate C. Duncan Travel Award to attend the Native American Art Studies
Association biennial conference.
Sessional Instructors
Paula Pryce
⚫ 2020-2021. The Project Grant for Researchers to pursue research on the relationship
between North American Christian contemplatives and Hindu ashrams in South India.
The Louisville Institute
Ana Vivaldi
⚫ 2020. 2-year Researcher position at the ESRC project: "Cultures of Antiracism and
Racism in Latin America", School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
Faculty Members
Millie Creighton
⚫ 2019. Grant for special workshop/conference on “East Asia and North American
Interconnections via Korea and Korean Descent Communities with Comparisons to
Japan and China”.
Julie Cruikshank
⚫ 2019. Polar Knowledge Canada Northern Science Award, Canadian Polar Commission.
Hugh Gusterson
⚫ 2020. The American Anthropological Association's 2020 Anthropology in Media Award.
https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1722
Jennifer Kramer
⚫ Jennifer Kramer 2019. SSHRC Faculty of Arts Visiting Speakers Grant for Solen Roth to
present in the Department’s Colloquium series, March 2020.
Sabina Magliocco
⚫ 2019. "Fairy Tale Justice in Old and New Media: Transforming Wonder,” SSHRC Insight
Grant 2020-2022, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
R.G. Matson
⚫ 2020. R.G. Matson and William D. Lipe. SSHRC-Partnership Engagement Grant for
“Mapping by drones of Chaco-era (AD 1050-1150) Roads on Cedar Mesa, SE Utah”.
⚫ 2020. R.G. Matson, William D. Lipe, Jonathan Till, and Winston Hurst. Award from the
University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) for “Mapping
Chacoan Roads in SE Utah Woodlands”.
William McKellin
⚫ 2020. Co-Principal Investigator in a project to implement physical activity and social
support programs for children with neurological developmental disabilities and their
families in Indigenous and non-indigenous communities across Canada. The project is
funded by a grant from the Michael Smith Health Research Foundation to study the
implementation of these programs in BC.
⚫ 2020. Collet, JP, L. Olsen, W. McKellin, M. Gitimoghaddam, S. Glegg, T. Nault, L. McNary.
Physical activity and family support programs for children with neurodevelopmental
disabilities and their families: Community partnerships to implement the New Physical
Activity Coaching (New-PAC) intervention. Kids Brain Health Network (National Centre
of Excellence). 2020-2023, $600,000.
⚫ Collet, JP, W. McKellin, A. Miller, S. Glegg Developing and implementing physical
activity programs for children with developmental delays in Indigenous and rural
communities of BC. BC Ministry of Health 2019-2021, $655,20
⚫ Olsen, L. L. McNary, JP Collet, T. Nault, W. McKellin, S. Glegg Implementing physical
activity programs in communities for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. 2020-2023, $500,000.
Bruce Granville Miller
⚫ 2020. CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award for Applied Anthropology.
Shaylih Muehlmann
⚫ 2020-2021. Guggenheim Fellowship 2020–2021, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shaylih-muehlmann/
Sara Shneiderman
⚫ 2019. in collaboration with Dr. Rina Pradhan and the Nepal Cultural Society of
BC, ”Understanding Nepali-Canadian Experiences in BC: Immigration,
Intergenerational Change, and Well-Being,” Fostering Research Partnerships Award,
VPRI.
⚫ “The Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths”. Interview, Global News TV.
https://globalnews.ca/ video/6198932/disaster-preparedness-what-can-we-do-better)
Mark Turin
⚫ 2019. “Relational Lexicography: New Approaches to Community Informed Dictionary
Work,” SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
⚫ 2019. “Mapping Linguistic Diversity in a Globalizing World through Open Source Digital
Tools,” Wall Solutions Initiative, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Presentations
Basant Ahmed-Sayed
⚫ “Japan and Egypt: Connections via Anime and Other Forms of Popular Culture,” Japan
Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) annual conference, Mt. Allison University,
Sackville, NB, Canada. October 5, 2019.
Elias Alexander
⚫ “Gay Men in South Korea, Image and Sexual Identity”, AAA-CASCA Conference,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 21, 2019.
⚫ “Conducting Ethnography on Space, Place, and Urban Locations Linked to Gay Male
Subcultures in Seoul, Korea,” Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea. July 25,
2019.
John Barker
⚫ “Eco-Politics in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea” Department of Anthropology
Brown Bag Talk Series. University of British Columbia. January 21, 2020.
⚫ “Anthropological Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea,” Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan.
May 9, 2019.
Carole Blackburn
⚫ “The Challenge of Reconciling Legal Orders: Concurrent Jurisdiction and the Right to
Self-Government in Contemporary Treaties”, “Indigenous Sovereignties and Self-
Determination: Tiayoriho'ten'” workshop, sponsored by the Faculty of Law, Laval
University, hosted by the Huron-Wendat First Nation in Wendake, Quebec. October
2019
⚫ “Reconciliation and Its Discontents: Current Indigenous Policy in Canada”, “Victims and
Perpetrators in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity” workshop, Weatherhead Center for
Internation Affairs, Canada Program, Harvard University. May 2019.
Alexia Bloch
⚫ “Of Borders, Babies, and African Refugee Women’s Resilience in Russia,” 2019
International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) panel on “Exploring
self-making projects among refugees in Europe: Opportunities, Restrictions and
Strategies,” Malmö, Sweden. June 26, 2019.
Jad Brake
⚫ “Friendship in Autism: Incomplete and Undeveloped Understanding or Different
Cultural Model of Friendship?”, AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
November 20-24, 2019.
Millie Creighton
⚫ Invited and funded speaker. “Performing Korean Wave Fandom at Florida’s Comicon,
Cairo’s Egycon, and Vancouver’s K-Pop Events”, 7th WAHS (World Association of Hallyu
–transnational Korean Popular culture) World Congress, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel. December 3, 2019.
⚫ “Indigeneity, Identity, and Internationalization: Ainu and Okinawan Movements
Including North American Involvements”, “For the Establishment of a Network for
Indigenous Studies in North America” session, AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC,
Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ “Curating Asia: A Roundtable Discussion on Cultural Consumption and Performance”
panel, AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 21, 2019
⚫ Chair, ”(Dis)Embodying Gender Through Material Culture” panel, AAA-CASCA
Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 21, 2019.
⚫ “Art and Architecture Places, Japan: The Seto Inland Sea Triennial International Festival
as Tourism and Forum for Social and Environmental Issues,” Japan Studies Association
of Canada (JSAC) annual conference, Mt. Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada.
October 4, 2019.
⚫ “Consumerism and the Socialization of Modern K-Kids: Dual Orientation Towards
Children’s Cosmopolitan Futures and Traditional Korean Identities,” Pusan National
University, Pusan, South Korea. July 25, 2019.
⚫ “Inter-Asian Transnational Giving Between Shikoku, Japan and Bagan, Myanmar: From
Memorializing One's Dead to More Generalized Philanthropy with Peace and War
Reflections,” Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity,
Gottingen, Germany. June 13, 2019.
⚫ Role as Judge for Major Art Competition: 2019 Vancouver Arts Carnival Paintings
Exhibition, International Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 14, 2019.
http://artsbridge.site/events-artcarnival-2019-news-room/
⚫ “Historical Context and Contemporary Social Movements Showing Japan’s
Constitutional Peace Clause (Article 9) as Emblem of Worldwide attempts to Eliminate
or Deter War,” The International Conference on War and Social Movements, CUNY
Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater. May 10, 2019.
Raphael Deberdt
⚫ “Industry Associations as Transnational Law-Makers: The Case of the Responsible
Minerals Initiative”, The Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting. Virtual
Conference, May 28, 2020.
Ezra Anton Greene
⚫ “Bringing the Outside In and the Inside Out", AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC,
Canada. November 20, 2019.
⚫ Clayton Tartak and Ezra Anton Greene. “Inuit Perspectives on Caribou Management:
Rankin Inlet Workshop”, Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, Arviat,
NU, Canada. November 7, 2019.
Vinay Kamat
⚫ “Conservation, Extraction and Environmental Justice in Tanzania”, Department of
Anthropology Brown Bag Talk Series. University of British Columbia. February 25, 2020.
⚫ Organizer and host. 5th Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver,
BC, Canada. 2019.
Evan T. Koike
⚫ “Creating Family-Friendly Workplaces in Japan: Outreach to Middle Managers by
Japanese Nonprofit Organizations Focused on Fathering”, Anthropology of Work panel,
AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ “Seeking Alternative Spaces: Japanese Fathers and Community Engagement,” Japan
Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) annual conference, Mt. Allison University,
Sackville, NB, Canada. October 4, 2019.
⚫ “Nuxalktimutaylayc-Transforming Museum Object Engagement into a Nuxalk Way of
Being through a First Nation, Museum, University Art Nexus”, Council for Museum
Anthropology Biennial Conference panel, Santa Fe, NM, USA. September 19-21, 2019.
⚫ “Venturing into the Local: The Effect of Japanese Parenting Organizations on Men's
Community Engagement,” Japan Society of Family Sociology, Kobe Gakuin University,
Kobe, Japan. September 15, 2019.
⚫ “The Third Place における家族観と育児:FJ の事例 [The Third Place in Family Values and
Childcare: The Case of FJ],” FJ アカデミア:⽗親に関する研究勉強会(⼤阪会場), FJ
Academia: Meeting on Research Related to Fathers, Osaka, Japan. September 13,
2019. 12
⚫ “The Third Place における家族観と育児:FJ の事例 [The Third Place in Family Values and
Childcare: The Case of FJ],” FJ アカデミア:⽗親に関する研究勉強会(東京会場), FJ
Academia: Meeting on Research Related to Fathers, Tokyo, Japan. September 6, 2019.
Jennifer Kramer
⚫ “Indigenous and Local Collecting: Remembering What Museum History Forgets” panel,
AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ Organizer. “(Ir)reconcilable Museology: Towards Generative not Extractive Relationality”
executive panel, AAA-CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23,
2019.
⚫ “Shaking Up What Is Valued: Indigenous and Museological Seismic Aftermaths”,
“Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths: Temporality and Transformation” panel, AAA-
CASCA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ Co-moderator. “Earthquake & Tsunami Aftermaths” Roundtable Discussion, UBC,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 21, 2019.
⚫ Mentor. Student museum methods workshop, Council for Museum Anthropology, MOA,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 20, 2019.
⚫ “In Order to Survive, We Create’: Re-Mobilizing Colonial Archives as Arts of Resistance”
panel on “Writing Indigenous Art Histories Out of Bounds: Circulation, Archives,
Afterlives,” Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, USA.
October 3, 2019
⚫ Roundtable organizer and participant of “Nuxalktimutaylayc-Transforming Museum
Object Engagement into a Nuxalk Way of Being through a First Nation, Museum,
University Art Nexus,” Council for Museum Anthropology Biennial Conference, Santa Fe,
NM, USA. September 19, 2019.
Emily Leischner
⚫ “Legacy Collections and Enduring Obligations: The E. Pauline Johnson Collection at the
Museum of Vancouver”, “Indigenous and Local Collecting: Remembering what
Museum History Forgets” panel, CASCA-AAA, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 20-
24, 2019.
⚫ Chair of “Collaborating for Change: Closed Brainstorming Session for All Students and
Early Career Professionals,” Council for Museum Anthropology Biennial Conference,
Santa Fe, NM, USA. September 19-21, 2019.
⚫ “Nuxalktimutaylayc-Transforming Museum Object Engagement into a Nuxalk Way of
Being through a First Nation, Museum, University Art Nexus,” Council for Museum
Anthropology Biennial Conference panel, Santa Fe, NM, USA. September 19-21, 2019.
⚫ Co-presenter with Nicole Kaeschele and Nununta Iris Siwallace. “Platforms: Centering,
Sharing, and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge. HASTAC Decolonizing Technologies”
panel, Reprogramming Education, The Nuxalk Ancestral Governance Project,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 16-18, 2019.
⚫ Workshop Instructor of “Tides Canada – Cedar 8 Heritage Training: Using Museum
Collections,” Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance. May 2, 2019.
Sabina Magliocco
⚫ “Vernacular Ontologies and Sustainability in the Globalized West,” Folklore Fellows
panel on "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Turns: Twenty Questions for Our Fields," American
Folklore Society, Baltimore, MD, USA. October 18, 2019.
William McKellin
⚫ William McKellin, Annette Majnemer, Maureen O’Donnell, Bahar Kasaai, and the
Advisory Committee of the Bright Coaching Project. "Parents Advising for Parents: The
Role of Parent Advisors in Patient Oriented Heath Research”, Joint Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropological Society,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 20, 2019.
Charles Menzies
⚫ 2020. Keynote Address. "The Indigenous Foundation of BC's Resource Economy." Surrey
Focus Day Professional Development for k-12 educators. Keynote organized by BC
Labour Heritage Association. February 21, 2020.
⚫ 2020. Workshop Presenter. “Capital and Labour, First Nations and the State: An example
from the fishing industry.” Surrey Focus Day. Professional Development for k-12
educators. Workshop organized by BC Labour Heritage Association. February 21, 2020.
⚫ “Learning from Lagyiget (the Old People) by Walking in the Steps of Mati (Mountain
Goats)”, Department of Anthropology Brown Bag Talk Series. University of British
Columbia. February 11, 2020.
⚫ 2020. Invited International Presentation. “Labour, Capital, and Indigenous Economics,
Laxyuup Gitxaała.” Global Labour History Conference. Organized by Swedish Labour
History Archive Centre, Stockholm. Jan. 22-25, 2020.
Bruce Granville Miller
⚫ Session co-organizer. Bruce Granville Miller and Stephen Baines. “Indigenous Peoples,
tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes” panel, CASCA-AAA Conference,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ “An Ethnographic View of the BC Human Rights Tribunal”, CASCA-AAA Conference,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 23, 2019.
⚫ Roundtable speaker. “The lifecycle of a career research record, or, estate planning for
anthropologists.” CASCA-AAA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 21,
2019.
⚫ 2019 “An Ethnographic View of Human Rights and Tribunals” Department of
Anthropology Brown Bag Talk Series. University of British Columbia. October 8, 2019.
⚫ Invited keynote speaker of “Settler-Indigenous Relations Today” and workshop
presenter of “Who are the Coast Salish?”, Indigenous Strand of Convention Conference,
Surrey School District, White Rock, BC, Canada. May 3, 2019.
Paula Pryce
⚫ Organized by John Barker and Anna-Karina Hermkens. “Sacred Drama in
Contemplative Christianity: Invoking the Divine by Perorming the Past”, Christian
Temporalities: Historiopraxy Agency and Transformation panel, CASCA-AAA,
Vancouver, Canada. November 2019.
⚫ Keynote speaker. “Why Ritual? A Human Gift”, Contemplative Outreach Chicago,
Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois, USA. November 2019.
Morgan Ritchie
⚫ “The Emergence and Development of a Large Settlement Community on the Harrison
River, Northwest Coast”, 4th Shanghai Archaeology Forum: Archaeology of
Urbanization and Globalization, The Past for the Common Future of Humankind,
Shanghai, China. December 14-17, 2019.
⚫ “Sts’ailes Community-Led Archaeology”, British Columbia Archaeology Forum, North
Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 16, 2019.
⚫ Morgan Ritchie, Emma Lowther, Francesco Berna. “Multi-scalar geoarchaeological
study of Settlement on Riverine Islands and the formation of the Harrison-Chehalis
Confluence, SW, British Columbia”, The 8th Developing International Geoarchaeology
(DIG) Conference, Hosted by the Archaeology Department at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 17 – 21, 2019.
⚫ “Sts’ailes-Coast Salish led conservation efforts of culturally important plants and places
on contested crown land”, “Indigenous Resource Management & Sovereignty in
Western North America” session, Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 7-11, 2019.
Daniel Ruiz-Serna
⚫ “When Forest Run Amok. Violence and its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian
Territories” Department of Anthropology Colloquia Series. University of British Columbia.
September 26, 2019.
Sara Shneiderman
⚫ “Anthropological Perspectives on Social Transformation in Nepal: Restructuring,
Reconstruction, and Urbanization”, Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University,
Kirtipur, Nepal. February 3, 2020.
⚫ "Deadlining: Temporality and Transformation in Nepal's Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster
Reconstruction", Sponsored by Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute;
Department of Geography and Planning, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy,
University of Toronto. December 2, 2019.
⚫ “Deadlining: Restructuring, Reconstruction and Transformation in Nepal”, Earthquake
and Tsunami Aftermaths: Temporality and Transformation panel, CASCA-AAA
Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 20-24, 2019
⚫ Co-moderator. Sara Shneiderman and Jennifer Kramer. “The Earthquake and Tsunami
Aftermaths” roundtable discussion. November 21, 2019.
https://youtu.be/RqNYmR1kdGE
⚫ “Equivocating Households: Kinship, Materiality, And The Bureaucracy Of Everyday Life
In Post-Earthquake Nepal,” The Administration of Everyday Life, 48th Annual
Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. 2019.
Eric Simons
⚫ Eric Simons and Alison Wylie on behalf of the Indigenous/Science organizers Andrew
Martindale, Dominique Weis and Rhy McMillan. “Indigenous/Science Partnerships:
Exploring Histories and Environments,” Green College Interdisciplinary Series 2019-2020.
September 18-November 21, 2019.
Dan Small
⚫ Dan Small and Sean McEwen. “Architecture, Anthropology and Social Acceptance:
Design that Created Zones of Acceptance,” Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Conference, Virtual Conference. June 4, 2020.
https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/projects/2020/06/downtown-ea
⚫ “Social Inclusion and Harm Reduction (Inclusão Social e Redução De Danos), Av
Feliciano Sodre s/n Terminal Rodoviario Roberto Silveira, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
November 11, 2019.
⚫ “Drugs, Social Inclusion and Collective Housing”, Auditório Joao Sampaio, Av Feliciano
Sodre s/n Terminal Rodoviario Roberto Silveira, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October
14, 2019.
Christopher Smith
⚫ "Northern Ambitions: US Federal Programs and the Intercultural Emergence of
Contemporary Alaska Native Art"
CASCA-AAA Joint Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 2019.
⚫ "The Worthy and Beautiful: Indian Arts and Crafts Board Programs in the Era of Alaska
Native Land Claims," 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Native American Art Studies
Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2019.
⚫ "Nuxalktimutaylayc: Transforming Museum Object Engagement into a Nuxalk Way of
Being through a First Nation, Museum, University Art Nexus," Museums Different: Council
for Museum Anthropology Association Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September
2019.
Mark Turin
⚫ “Symposium Opening Access: Writing, Reviewing, and Editing in the Social Sciences
and Humanities,” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 5-September
7, 2019.
⚫ Keynote for 2nd Annual Lecture “Language as Heritage: Indigenous Language
Resurgence in the 21st Century,” Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. May 7, 2019.
⚫ “Belonging, Transformation, and Ethnographic Predicaments in Nepal’s Himalaya,” Liu
Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 23, 2019.
⚫ “Extinction” symposium, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European
Studies, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 26, 2019.
Ana Vivaldi
⚫ "Urban Indigeneity as Bordering Practice: Shaping and Contesting the Shantytown as
an ‘Outside’ to the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.” AAA-CASCA conference.
Vancouver, November 22.
⚫ “Indigenous Warriors: Formations of Race and Indigeneity in the Argentine Military in
the Late 19th and 20th Century,” Latin American Studies Association Conference,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA. May 24-27, 2019.
Rafael Wainer
⚫ “‘I will grab a rifle and I will kill that bug!’: The role of humour in navigating painful
treatments in a paediatric hospital in Argentina”, CASCA-AAA Conference, Vancouver,
BC, Canada. November 20-24, 2019.
⚫ “The Art of Selling and Buying Rotten Fish,” Round Table Democracy, Brazil Today, Liu
Institute, UBC, BC, Canada. November 1, 2019.
Darlene Weston
⚫ “Bioarchaeological Research in the Caribbean and Greece”, Department of
Anthropology Brown Bag Series Talk. University of British Columbia. October 22, 2019.
Mentions, Exhibitions & Film
Patrick Dowd
⚫ 2019-2020. Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of
Languages and Letters. October 7, 2019 – January 4, 2020.
Nicola Levell
⚫ 2019. Role as Curator for Exhibition in the UBC Museum of Anthropology: Shadows,
Strings & Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets, Museum of Anthropology,
University of British Columbia. May 16 – October 14, 2019.
Charles Menzies
⚫ 2019 Basketball Warriors. Produced and Directed by Charles Menzies. Edited by
Jonathan Ventura. A Production of the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC. 12 minute
broadcast quality documentary.
Kisha Supernant
⚫ 2019 How Indigenous researchers are reclaiming archeology and anthropology. Kisha
Supernant, who is mentioned in the article, did her PhD in the UBC Anth department,
and Dr. Susan Rowley is also mentioned.
⚫ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-how-indigenous-
researchers-are-reclaiming-archeology-and-anthropology/
Publications
John Barker
⚫ 2019. “Converts, Christians and anthropologists: A critique of Mark Mosko’s partible
penitent thesis.” Aust J Anthropol. 2019;00:1–17. https ://doi.org/10.1111/ taja.12330
⚫ 2019. Review of “The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land”
by Pamela E. Klassen. Journal of Anthropological Research, 75(4): 549-50.
⚫ 2019. Review of “The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-
Making in Bhutan” by Jonathan Taee. Pacific Affairs 92 (3): 168-20.
⚫ 2019. John Barker, Eric Hirsch, and Will Rollason. “Missionaries in the Melanesian World,”
The Melanesian World, London: Routledge, 77-91.
⚫ 2019. John Barker, Anna-Karina Hermkens, and Katherine Lepani. Review of “Sinuous
Objects: Revaluing Women’s Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific,” Pacific Affairs 92,
184-86.
⚫ 2019. “Mixed Grammars and Tangled Hierarchies: An Australian-Papuan Contact Zone
in Papua New Guinea,” Anthropological Forum 29(3): 284-301.
Carole Blackburn
⚫ 2019. Edited by Dittmar Shorkowitz, Ingo Shroeder and John Chavez. “The Treaty
Relationship and Settler Colonialism in Canada.” Shifting Forms of Continental
Colonialism: Unfinished Struggles and Tension, Palgrave MacMillan. 415-435.
Maya Daurio
⚫ 2020. Daurio, M., Craig, SR, Kaufman, D., Perlin, R., Turin, M. “Subversive Maps: How
Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity.” Langscape Magazine
Vol. 9, Summer/Winter 2020, "The Other Extinction Rebellion: Countering the Loss of
Biocultural Diversity", online preprint at
https://terralingua.org/langscape_articles/subversive-maps-how-digital-language-
mapping-can-support-biocultural-diversity/.
⚫ 2020. Review of “Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed: Return to Tarang” by James F.
Fisher. Himalaya 39(2).
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss2/22.
⚫ 2019. Maya Daurio, Mark Turin, and Selma K. Sonntag. “The Significance of Place in
Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Spatial Variations Across the Kaike-Speaking Diaspora of Nepal,”
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 109-135. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0169
Alexander Elias
⚫ 2019. “Chong-ro: A Space of Belonging for Young Gay Men in Seoul.” Boyhood Studies.
12(2): 11-28.
Ezra Anton Greene
⚫ 2019. Ezra Anton Greene and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski. “Isummiqtauniq: Though Gift,” The
Isuma Book. http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-book/essays/isummiqtauniq-thought-gift
Lauren Harding
⚫ 2019. “‘This isn't Canada, it’s Home’: Re-claiming Colonized Space through the
HostGuest Relationship,” Ethnoscripts 21, no. 1.
Michelle Hak Hepburn
⚫ 2020. “Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A
Critical Look at Peru's Law 27811.” Human Organization 79 (1): 69-79.
Vinay Kamat
⚫ 2020. Rebecca Singleton, Edward Allison, Charlotte Gough, Philippe LeBillon, Laura
Robson, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Vinay Kamat. “Conservation, contraception and
controversy: Supporting human rights to enable sustainable fisheries in Madagascar.”
Global Environmental Change 59 : November 101946.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101946
⚫ 2019. Vinay Kamat, Justin Raycraft, Philippe Le Billon, Rosemarie Mwaipopo. “Natural
gas extraction and community development in Tanzania: Documenting the gaps
between rhetoric and reality,” The Extractive Industries and Society 6, 968-976.
⚫ 2019. “Dynamite fishing in southeastern Tanzania; Why youth perceptions matter,”
Coastal Management, 47(4):387-405.
Emily Leischner
⚫ 2019. Emily Leischner and Margaret M. Bruchac. “Review of Savage Kin: Indigenous
Informants and American Anthropologists,” Transmotion Journal, Vol 5, no. 1, University
of Kent https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/771
Andrew Mason
⚫ 2020. Andrew R. Mason and Meng Ying. “Evaluating Standards for Private-Sector
Financial Institutions and the Management of Cultural Heritage.” Advances in
Archaeological Practice, 1-14. doi:10.1017/aap.2019.44.
⚫ 2020. Maclaren Fergus T., Andrew R. Mason, Rouran Zhang and Tian Jiajia. “United
Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Their Challenges and Incorporation into
Tourism Management in China’s Proposed Maritime Silk Road World Heritage Site”.
China Cultural Heritage. Issue No.1:15-22.
R. G. Matson
⚫ 2020. Eric Guiry, Thomas C. A. Royle, R. G. Matson, Hillary Ward, Tyler Weir, Nicholas
Waber, Thomas J. Brown, Brian P. V. Hunt, Michael H. H. Price, Bruce P. Finney, Masahide
Kaeriyama, Yuxue Qin, Dongya Y. Yang, and Paul Szpak. “Differentiating salmonid
migratory ecotypes through stable isotope analysis of collagen:Archaeological and
ecological applications.” PLoS ONE, 15(4):e0232180.
Charles Menzies
⚫ 2019. Charles R. Menzies and Caroline Butler. Redefining the University-Community
Research Enterprise: Partnership and Collaboration in Laxyuup Gitxaała. In Jennifer
Hays and Irene Bellier (Eds). Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples: New Rights
or Same Old Wrongs? Pp. 266-281. London: Routledge.
⚫ 2019. Charles Menzies and Andrew Martindale. 2019. “‘I Was Surprised:’ The UBC School
and Hearsay -A Reply to David Henige.” Journal of Northwest Anthropology. Vol.
53(1):78-107.
⚫ 2019. Charles R. Menzies. “Sea Legs: Learning to Labor on the Water.” Anthropology of
Work Review. DOI: 10.1111/awr.12172.
⚫ 2019. Charles R. Menzies. At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging.
By Wendy Wickwire. BC Studies August 27, 2019.
⚫ 2019. Charles R. Menzies. Being Ts’elxwéyeqw: First Peoples’ Voices and History from the
Chilliwack-Fraser Valley, British Columbia. By the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe (producers) and
David M. Schaepe (editor). Ormsby Review, #516. URL:
https://bcbooklook.com/2019/03/26/516-from-chilliwack-to-tselxweyeq/
⚫ 2019. Charles R. Menzies. Environment, labour and capitalism at sea: ‘Working the
ground’ in Scotland, by Penny McCall Howard. Manchester: Manchester University
Press.
⚫ 2017. Pp. 248. September 2019. Journal of Agrarian Change 20(2). DOI:
10.1111/joac.12345
Bruce Granville Miller
⚫ 2020. Recent Autobiographies and Biographies of Coast Salish People. Salish
Sea Sentinel 16 (4): 40-43.
⚫ Research and publication, The Great Race of 1941, featured in three minute broadcast,
Seattle TV, KCTS, Mossback’s Northwest: When the 'boys in the boat' raced Swinomish
paddlers, with Knute Berger. May 1.
⚫ 2020. Bruce Granville Miller. “Coast Salish Review: Notable Recent Publications,” Coast
Salish Sentinel 16 (4): 40-43.
⚫ 2019. “Indigenous Responses to Domination and the Creation of Social Harmony,”
WESPIS, Centre for Cross Cultural Study, Seville, Spain.
Fuyubi Nakamura
⚫ 2019. Fuyubi Nakamura et al. “Hokkaido 150: Settler colonialism and Indigeneity in
modern Japan and beyond.” Critical Asian Studies 51 (4): 597-636.
Paula Pryce
⚫ 2020. Edited by José Zúquete. “Charisma and Charismatic Christianity.” Routledge
Handbook of Charisma , New York: Routledge.
⚫ 2020. Edited by Laura Duhan Kaplan and Harry O. Maier. “‘Unitive Being’ in the Face of
Atrocity: North American Contemplative Christian Responses to Terrorism.”
Encountering the Other, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
Morgan Ritchie
⚫ 2020. Morgan Ritchie and Bill Angelbeck. “’Coyote Broke the Dams’: Power, Reciprocity,
and Conflict in Fish Weir Narratives and Implications for Traditional and Contemporary
Fisheries.” Ethnohistory, Volumes 67, no. 2.
Sara Shneiderman
⚫ 2020. Shneiderman, Sara, Jeevan Baniya, Philippe Le Billon, and Deepak Thapa.
“Learning from Disasters: Nepal copes with coronavirus pandemic 5 years after
earthquake”. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/learning-from-disasters-
nepal-copes-with-coronavirus-pandemic-5-years-after-earthquake-134009
⚫ 2020. Sara Shneiderman. “India at a Crossroads.” Trending Globally. Podcast audio.
Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island, US. https://soundcloud.com/watsoninstitute/india_at_a_crossroads
⚫ 2020. Parajulee, Ramjee, Sara Shneiderman, and Ratna K. Shrestha. “Forging
Community through Disaster Response: Nepali Canadians and the 2015 Earthquakes”.
BC Studies 205: 11-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i205.191953
⚫ 2019. Sahana Ghosh and Sara Shneiderman. “New laws weaponize citizenship in India.”
The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/new-laws-weaponize-citizenship-in-
india-129027
Dan Small
⚫ 2019. Edited by N. Mendes, E. Merhy, and P. Silveira. “Cultural Kidnapping: State
Abductrion of Children from First Nations in Canada. In Extermination of the Excluded.”
Porto Alegre, Editora Redeunid, Brazil. 441-468.
⚫ 2019. Dan Small and Bruce Alexander. “Structural violence and Canada’s overdose
catastrophe: time for a Royal Commission.” CMAJ Blogs, Canadian Medical
Association Journal, Canada.
⚫ 2019. Dan Small, et al. Edited by N. Mendes, E. Merhy, and P. Silveira. “Breastfeeding,
Drug Use and Compulsory Adoption. In Extermination of the Excluded.” Porto Alegre ,
Editora Redeunida, Brazil. 303-310.
⚫ 2019. “From Bean to Bar: Cultural Esteem and Healing Through Chocolate.” Practicing
Anthropology 41(2):40-46.
Christopher Smith
⚫ 2020. "Coloring, Culture, & Quarantine: Indigenous Artists Create Free Coloring Designs
During Lockdown." First American Art Magazine, No. 27: 24-25.
⚫ 2020. "Tlingit Armor-Maker and Woodcarver: Tommy Joseph." First American Art
Magazine, No. 26: pp. 64-69.
Camilla Speller
⚫ 2020. Abigail Ramsoe, Vivian van Heekeren, Paola Ponce, Roman Fischer, Ian Barnes,
Camilla Speller, and Matthew J. Collins. “2020 DeamiDATE 1.0: Deamidation Site-
Specific as a Tool to Assess Authenticity of Members of Ancient Proteomes.” Journal of
Archaeological Science 115: 105080
Mark Turin
⚫ 2020. Co-wrote the Himalayan New Yorkers tell stories of COVID-19, Nepalis, Tibetans,
and other Himalayan natives in New York’s Queens neighbourhoods speak of being at
the epicentre of the epicentre https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/himalayan-
new-yorkers-tell-stories-of-covid-19/
⚫ 2020. Julia Schillo and and Mark Turin. ‘Applications and innovations in typeface design
for North American Indigenous languages’ in Book 2.0 (10)1: 71-96.
⚫ 2020. ‘Indigenous language resurgence and the living earth community’ in Living Earth
Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn
Tucker, and John Grim. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. pages 171-184.
⚫ 2020. Maya Daurio and Mark Turin. ‘“Langscapes” and Language Borders: Linguistic
Boundary-Making in Northern South Asia’ Eurasia Border Review 10(1): 21-42.
⚫ 2020. Review of “Northwest Voices: Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest”,
BC Studies.
⚫ ‘Subversive Maps: How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity’
by Maya Daurio, Sienna R. Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin,
Langscape Magazine, May 19, 2020.
⚫ ‘Himalayan New Yorkers tell stories of COVID-19’ Nepali Times, with Nawang Tsering
Gurung, Ross Perlin, Mark Turin, Sienna R Craig, Maya Daurio, and Daniel Kaufman, Issue
1014, pages 8-9.
⚫ 2020. Mark Turin. “Bridging Nepal and the US: Review of Bridging Worlds.” Nepali Times.
https://www.nepalitimes.com/review/bridging-nepal-and-the-us/
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin. “The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial
Authority to Open Access” Blog. Open Book Publishers.
http://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-shifting-politics-of-representations/
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin. “Ownership, Control, Access and Possession in Open Access
Humanities Publishing” Blog for Open Access Week. ScholarLed.
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin. “Revisiting the morphophonology of Thangmi: a Tibeto-Burman
language of Nepal.” Gipan, Volume 4: 63-79.
⚫ 2019. Edited by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin. The Politics of Language Contact in
the Himalaya, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0169
⚫ 2019. “Translation and interpretation in the United Nations Mission in Nepal,” Nepalese
Translation, Volume 3: 34-45.
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin and Mick Gowar. “Editorial,” Book 2.0, 9(1&2): 3-6.
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin and Bidur Dangol. “The changing landscape of publishing in Nepal:
Interview with Bidur Dangol,” Book 2.0, 9(1&2): 83-91.
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin and Julia Schillo. “Cree language use in contemporary children’s
literature,” Book 2.0, 9(1&2): 163-170.
⚫ 2019. Mark Turin and Bendi Tso. “Speaking Chone, Speaking ‘Shallow’: Dual Linguistic
Hegemonies in China’s Tibetan Frontier,”The Politics of Language Contact in the
Himalaya, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 137-162.
⚫ 2019. Edited by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin. “Concluding Thoughts on Language
Shift and Linguistic Diversity in the Himalaya: The Case of Nepal,” The Politics of
Language Contact in the Himalaya, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 163-176.
Ana Vivaldi
⚫ 2019. “Indigeneidades urbanas: formaciones espacializadas de raza y experiencia
Toba (Qom) en Buenos Aires [Urban Indigeneities: Spatialized Racial Formations and
the experience of Toba (Qom) in Buenos Aires],” Quid 16 Journal of Urban Studies,
“Gino Germani” Institute of Sociology (UBA), n 11.
⚫ 2019. “Indigenous Men in the Argentine Military in the 19th and 20th Century,” Oxford
Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rafael Wainer
⚫ 2020. The metropolis and mental life in the age of COVID-19: Delaying descent into
the blasé attitude. Somatosphere, url: http://somatosphere.net/2020/metropolis-
mental-life.html/
⚫ 2019. “Permeable Bodies: Children’s Bodily Boundaries When Navigating Cancer
Treatment,” Medicine Anthropology Theory.
http://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/11352/permeable-bodies
Darlene Weston
⚫ 2019. Kimberly Plomp, Keith Dobney, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Mark Collard, and Darlene
Weston. “3D shape analyses of extant primate and fossil hominin vertebrae support the
ancestral shape hypothesis for intervertebral disc herniation.” BMC Evolutionary Biology
19:226. doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1550-9.
⚫ 2019. Kimberly Plomp, Keith Dobney, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Mark Collard, and Darlene
Weston. “Potential adaptations for bipedalism in the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae of
Homo sapiens: A 3D comparative analysis.” Journal of Human Evolution 137:102693.
https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102693.
⚫ 2019. Heather Robertson, David Pokotylo, and Darlene Weston. “Testing landmark
redundancy for sex-based shape analysis of the adult human os coxa.” American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 169 :689-703.
⚫ 2019. Edited by Michael Richards and Kate Britton. “Human osteology.” Archaeological
Science: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 147-169.
Special Occasions & Events
Hawthorn Lecture: Dr. Sherry B. Ortner a distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at
UCLA was this year’s invited Hawthorne lecturer.
Members of the Department of
Anthropology shared a dinner
outing with Professor Sherry
Ortner at the restaurant East is
East.
Shown in the photograph from
the left front in clockwise
rotation: Carole Blackburn,
Sherry Ortner, Leslie Robertson,
Gaston Gordillo, Caroline Old
Coyote, and Millie Creighton.
(Photo Courtesy of Caroline Old
Coyote)
The Department of Anthropology
sponsored a reception in honor of the
joint CASCA/AAA conference held
here in Vancouver BC from November
19 – 25, 2019. We would like to thank
our student volunteers for all their hard
work in organizing and coordinating
this event.
Dr. David Pokotylo’s
Retirement Dinner: September
20, 2019, La Piazza Dario
Ristorante Italiano Restaurant
Professor David Pokotylo has
retired after 40 years of full-
time dedicated service at
UBC, including seven years as
Head of the Department of
Anthropology and Sociology.
Thank you for your years of
hard work and dedication.
Congratulations on your
retirement!
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