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We’re thrilled that Dr. Yana Stainova is part of the organizing team for this year’s Ethnographic Salon & Open Mic at AAA 2025! Expect a vibrant night of song, story, poetry, and creative ethnography.

📍 The Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans
Thurs, Nov 20 • 7PM
Featuring Dusky Waters (NOLA roots/Americana)
Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA)+the Music + Sound Interest Group (MSIG) present a: Creative Ethnographic Salon Thursday, November 20, 7-9 PM The Howlin' Wolf 907 S. Peters St., New Orleans AAA Annual Meeting (off-site event) Sign up with host by email: kristinajacobsen@gmail.com Free and open to the public All genres, styles, and languages welcome The image on the poster is a lightbulb with swirling, colourful brushstrokes that extend beyond the glass of the bulb
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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🎉 Congrats to @biqbal.bsky.social on receiving a SSHRC Connection Grant! His project explores how justice is imagined beyond political/legal systems, with a 2026 workshop bringing scholars together across disciplines.

Learn more via the link in bio.

#AnthroSky #McMasterAnthro #McMasterUniversity
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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🎙️ Dr. Megan Brickley, McMaster Anthropology, is featured on @hamiltonspectator.bsky.social's podcast Placeline Hamilton: “This McMaster professor has skeletons in her office.” 115 skeletons, countless insights into 1800s health & daily life.

🎧 Spotify link in bio!
#Anthropology #McMasterAnthro
Out of focus in the background, Dr. Megan Brickley holds a human molar in the foreground, examining it.
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🧑‍🔬✨ Dig into Hamilton’s past!

Join McMaster Anthropology for DIG IT! Archaeology & the 1918 Flu - a free, family-friendly event with hands-on activities: excavate sand, handle artifacts & explore flu history.

📅 Oct 18 Dundas Museum | Oct 25 Hamilton Library
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October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A warm welcome to our newest grad student cohort!

The future of anthropology is here. We’re excited to see the amazing research and contributions they’ll bring to our department.

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#Anthropology #McMasterAnthro #AnthroSky #McMaster
A group of 13 students stands in front of a stairway on the McMaster campus.
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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📘 New from @biqbal.bsky.social: The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution - out Sept 2 with @fordhampress.bsky.social.
August 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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In her USRA, supervised by Dr. Amanda Wissler, Mackenzie is investigating how mouse models can be used to support bioarchaeological stress research in identifying the causes of skeletal markers. Mackenzie is dissecting mouse skeletons and preparing histological slides of mouse femur bones.
A close-up of a microscopic image of a mouse femur.
July 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Meet Mackenzie Peplow (she/her), a recent Anthropology BA Honours grad and recipient of the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), which provides undergraduate students with the unique opportunity to conduct their own research project under faculty member supervision. #McMaster #Anthropology
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July 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Meet PhD student Sarah Oresnik, a student athlete who is creating space for queer people in sport.
June 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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⌚ Meet Dr. Cal Biruk, a professor whose research considers trans experiences with fitness wearables.
June 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Meet Victoria @clowater.bsky.social, a PhD student whose work looks at polyamory as a queer form of family and relationality.
June 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Happy Pride Month!

We're thrilled to showcase the queer-focused research and advocacy happening at McMaster.

#AnthroSky #McMaster #McMasterAnthro #Anthropology #QueerAnthropology
June 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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⛏️Meet Emily, a settler PhD student working to decolonize archaeological practice.
A photo of Emily holding flowers on a green background. Text: Emily Anson, she/her. Emily is a PhD Candidate, career archaeologist, and settler of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her PhD research looks at the deep structural inequities in archaeology that she encountered in her 13 years working as an archaeologist. Through her PhD research, she envisions an archaeology that not only serves the Indigenous people whose material culture it studies, but one which is led by Indigenous people themselves. Emily Anson, she/her. “I felt I could no longer continue to participate in such a system without attempting to change it. My focus is creating new frameworks for archaeology that involve collaborative work and the eventual rematriation (returning) of the discipline itself (including its design, practice, and implementation) to Indigenous communities.”
June 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🍵 Learn about a collaborative archaeology project with Six Nations of the Grand River exploring Indigenous foodways.
A cream coloured slide with microscopic imagery in the background. Text: Collaborative Archaeologies and Decolonized Foodways. This community-based project explores the history of Indigenous foodways in the Six Nations of the Grand River (Haudenosaunee) territory, led by Andrew Roddick, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Scott Martin, Lindi Masur (McMaster University), and Tanya Hill-Montour (Six Nations Archaeology Department). Through cutting-edge biomolecular analysis, researchers examine food residues on archaeological artifacts, reconnecting with ancestral diets to promote Haudenosaunee food sovereignty and centre Indigenous voices in heritage research. Collaborative Archaeologies and Decolonized Foodways. “The history of anthropology, the history of archaeology, have not been kind to Indigenous communities. if research is community-based, if it is community-led, then (Indigenous groups can be) the ones who are asking the questions: “What could we do with existing artifacts? What would you like to know from them?” Dr. Adrianne Lickers Xavier Assistant Professor
June 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🌿 Meet Kaeliana, an MA student from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation researching intergenerational healing for Residential School survivors.
A green slide with the Haudenosaunee flag in the background. Text: Kaeliana Smoke - she/her. Kaeliana is Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. An MA student in the Anthropology department, her research looks at intergenerational healing for Residential School survivors and their families at the individual, family, and community level. Kaeliana Smoke, she/her. “I wanted to record stories of healing, of how, despite everything that Indigenous families have endured because of Residential Schools, not only are we surviving, but we are thriving.”
June 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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June is Indigenous History Month.
We're spotlighting the work of Indigenous and allied scholars in our department who are rethinking what anthropology can be.
Supporting Indigenous scholarship and confronting the discipline’s colonial roots is work we commit to every day—not just in June. #AnthroSky
A cream cloured slide with a lightly textured background. June 2025. McMaster University Anthropology. Title: National Indigenous History Month. June is National Indigenous History Month - a time to celebrate and reflect. Today, we're spotlighting powerful Indigenous-led and Indigenous-focused research happening in the department of Anthropology.
June 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🕡 6:30–9:00 PM

🎤 Dr. Giles Morrow on mapping ancient Cambodia through landmine zones with drone-based LiDAR

🎤 Kayla Golay Lausanne on drone & radar mapping in Peru's coastal settlements

📍 Fairweather Brewing Co., Hamilton
👶 Under 18? Bring a parent or guardian!
April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🚁 No shovel? No problem.

Join us April 16 at Fairweather Brewing Co. for a public talk on how archaeologists use drones, LiDAR & radar to uncover lost cities—from Cambodia to Peru—without digging a single trench. Talks, beer, & tech!

#AnthroSky #AnthropologyMatters
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Dr. Tristan Carter & Dr. Demetris Athanasoulis reveal a rare mason’s mark from Stelida, Naxos! 🏺 This architectural block—a simple cross—raises questions about Minoan ties. Could it mark Knossian influence or serve as an altar?

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Publication Alert! A Mason's Mark from the Stelida Peak Sanctuary, Naxos. New co-authored publication by Dr. Tristan Carter. Article summary: This article reports on an architectural block from the peak sanctuary at Stelida on Naxos that is inscribed with a mason’s mark, the first such example from the island and one of only a handful outside of Crete and Akrotiri on Thera. We suggest that it originally formed part of the building’s back wall, the sign facing Thera, and Crete beyond— signaling a connection to and possibly protection from these important political places. An alternative hypothesis sees the block as an altar. The design of the mason’s mark, a simple cross, is well attested at Knossos and several other sites on Minoan Crete, plus at Akrotiri on Thera, and at Mycenae in the Argolid. This mason’s mark may provide further evidence for Knossian politico-religious influence at Stelida. American Journal of Archaeology 128(3) Carter and Athanasoulis 2024
March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Join us tomorrow, Friday Mar. 14, for our monthly Speaker Series! Dr. Travis Steffens will be talking about health and interspecies relationships.

@onehealthuofg.bsky.social @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social #anthropology #anthropologymatters #onehealth #primates
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Join us for a talk by Dr. Maya Wind about her new book, TOWERS OF IVORY AND STEEL: HOW ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES DENY PALESTINIAN FREEDOM.

REGISTER USING QR CODE OR LINK IN BIO.

🗓 Friday, March 8
📍 Chester New Hall 103
⏰ 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
February 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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📢 Speaker Series Announcement! 📢

Join us for an engaging talk by Dr. Lisa Bhungalia (@lbhungalia.bsky.social) about her book Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine.

🗓 Friday, Feb 28
📍 LRW 1003
⏰ 3:30–5 PM

#Anthropology #Palestine #WarOnTerror #Counterterrorism #USEmpire
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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📢 Speaker Series Talk today! 📢

Join us for an engaging talk by Dr. Lauren Grant (Population Medicine, University of Guelph) on:
“Advancing the Epidemiology of Enteric Illnesses: Multidisciplinary Approaches Needed”

🗓 Friday, January 31

📍 LRW 1003

⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
January 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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🎉 Congrats to Dr. Loa Gordon! 🎉
Dr. Gordon, a recent PhD graduate from McMaster University, has won the AMHIG Graduate Student Paper Prize Award 2024 for her paper The Bubble-Bathification of Self-Care: Problematizing Possibilities for Restful Mental Health.

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December 2, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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🌍✨ How do spaces shape us?

Join us for a thought-provoking talk featuring stories of place, memory, and connection—from Pokémon Go to DNA art, and more.

📅 Dec. 11, 7-9 PM
📍Fairweather Brewing Co.

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December 2, 2024 at 2:15 PM