Research

Research is a source of vitality that enhances the experience of our students, both undergraduate and graduate.

Our department members are engaged in exciting and relevant research--locally, regionally and internationally, and across anthropology's sub-fields of archaeology, biological and cultural anthropology.

A distinctive feature of our research program and graduate training is our concern to create thematic integration across anthropology's traditional sub-fields. This is an innovative and exciting approach that builds on anthropology's long-standing holistic approach at a time when fracturing along sub-disciplinary lines is becoming the norm.

UVic Anthropology is one among a small number of anthropology departments in North America that is actively fostering meaningful connections and dialogue among anthropology's traditional sub-fields.

Several thematic foci link faculty and students across traditional sub-field boundaries. These include:

• Inequality, Culture, Health
• Evolution and Ecology
• Indigenous Peoples
• Visual Anthropology and Materiality