Graduate Student Profiles

Current Anthropology Graduate Students

Sharra Fullersmith (BA '21): The Middle-Class and Food Insecurity in North America 
Supervisor: Patrick Wilson

Lily Overacker (BA '25):  Forests, Folklore, and Landscape in Southwest Ireland 
Supervisor: Jodie Asselin

Rebeca Spencer (BA '23): Investigating a Process of Risk: Social and Historical Perspectives of Two Endangered Species
Supervisor: Jodie Asselin

Tahneen Nur-E-Taj (MA ‘22, BA ’19): Gender norms in the nexus of reproductive decision-making of Rohingya refugee women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Supervisor: Patrick Wilson

Star Hungry Wolf-Cardinal (BA '04): Beekseekseenaiks kii Naamskiiks:  Knowledge Transfer In Blackfoot Community Based Collaborative Research
Supervisor: Jodie Asselin

Past Anthropology Graduate Students

Gonzalez, Erica. 2025. An Examination of the Impact of Colonialism on Blackfoot Food Security and Sovereignty: A Landscape and Policy Approach. MA thesis.

Badger, Madison. 2025. Queering Cultural Resource Management: Defying Norms in CRM Archaeology. MA thesis.

White, Alyssa. 2023. Working Outside of “Contained Space”: Open Educational Practices in the Teaching of Anthropology. MA thesis.

Weasel Moccasin, Camina. 2023. Niitsitapii Heritage Education: A Poomiikapii Approach. MA thesis.

Mikuliak, Makita. 2022. Teachers’ Responses to the TQS5 and TRC in Southern Alberta: Translations Through Relations: A Space Between. MA thesis.

Forster, Hannah. 2020. Voices of Addiction: An Analysis of the Lives of Individuals Living with Drug Usage in Western Canada. MA thesis.

Pazmiño, Estanislao. 2019. Researching on Pre-Columbian Ceramic Production and Social Inequality in the Quijos Valley, Ecuador. MA thesis.

Guthrie, Hunter. 2017. Lived Realities: Climate Change, Neoliberalism, and Livelihood Strategies on the Southern Atiplano of Bolivia. MA thesis.

Stavig, Lucia. 2017. Feminist Assemblages: Peruvian Feminisms, Forced Sterilization, and the Paradox of Rights in Fujimori’s Peru. MA thesis.

Lanno, Kurt. 2016. Landscape, History, and Opposition among the Kainai. MA thesis.

Yunga Tacura, Marco. 2016. Reinventing Rituals and the Role of Music in the Process of Affirming Identity among the Amazonian Kichwa-Quijos from Napo, Ecuador. MA thesis.

Mack, Amy. 2015. “This Isn’t What War Is Like”: An Ethnographic Account of ARMA 3. MA thesis.

Dykin, Ashley. 2014. “Posterchild”: Notions of Community and Inclusion in a Rural Canadian City. MA thesis.

Korn, Allison. 2013. “Our Grandparents Are Buried Here; Our Grandparents Know”: Re-membering a Quijos Territory and Identity. MA thesis.

Alomari, Thabit. 2012. Motivation and Socio-Cultural Sustainability of Voluntourism. MA thesis.

Freemann, Brett W. 2011. The Social Organization of Ground Stone Production, Distribution, and Consumption in the Quijos Valley, Eastern Ecuador. MA thesis.

Stanger, James R. 2011. Comuneros: Community and Indigeneity in Saraguro, Ecuador. MA thesis.

Jenson, Jason. 2011. In Search of a Nobler Past: Incanismo and Community Tourism in Saraguro, Ecuador. MA thesis.

Jenson, Jennifer. 2011. Bringing Up Good Babies: An Ethnography of Moral Apprenticeship in Saraguro. MA thesis.

McNab, Tracy. 2009. Picnics, Potlucks and Cookbooks: Farm Women’s Clubs and the Livelihood of Community in Twentieth Century Southern Alberta. MA thesis.