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MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

  1. Institution Name:
    Memorial University of Newfoundland
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Archaeology
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology:
    1. Gaulton, Barry (Ph.D., Memorial 2006; Associate Prof.) Historical archaeology, vernacular architecture, material culture, military archaeology, transhumance, historic petroglyphs, Eastern North America and Newfoundland
    2. Losier, Catherine (Ph.D., Laval 2012; Assistant Prof.) Historical archaeology, French colonies, Atlantic colonial world, material culture studies, cultural interaction, colonial economies
  4. Other faculty members:
    1. Blaser, Mario (Ph.D., McMaster 2003; Associate Prof.) Indigenous politics, ontology, the study of science and technology
    2. Burchell, Meghan (Ph.D., McMaster 2013; Associate Prof.) Coastal landscapes, isotope analysis,sclerochronology, geochemical applications in archaeology, climate proxies, hunter-gatherers, mortuary archaeology, gender and archaeology
    3. Forbes, Veronique (Ph.D., Aberdeen 2013; Assistant Prof.) Human-environment interactions in the circumpolar north, biogeography, conflict, environmental archaeology and palaeoecology, Quaternary entomology, Newfoundland, Alaska, Iceland
    4. Grimes, Vaughan (Ph.D., Bradford 2007; Associate Prof.) Archaeological science, biomolecular archaeology, human skeletal biology, isotope-based analytical methodologies (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium); influence of culture, biological adaptations and climate change on subsistence, settlement, migration and mobility patterns in the past
    5. Moro, Oscar (Ph.D., Cantabria 2006; Associate Prof.) Prehistoric Art, Art History, Indigenous Arts, Science and Technology, Philosophy of Science, History of Science
    6. Neilsen, Scott (Ph.D., Memorial 2015; Assistant Prof.) Indigenous people of Eastern Quebec and Labrador, the long-term history of small-scale societies around the world and the impact that climate, environment and policy has had on them Rankin, Lisa (Ph.D., McMaster 1998; Prof.) Post-medieval cultural encounters in the archaeological record between Labrador Inuit and Europeans, and interactions between Northeastern Indigenous populations over the past several Millennia; hunter-gatherers, ethnicity and identity, landscapes, settlement patterns, eastern Sub-Arctic 
    7. Whitridge, Peter (Ph.D., Ariz State 1999; Prof.) Embodiment, place and landscape; hunter-fisher-gatherer social and economic relations; human-animal relations; imaginaries; childhood; sport; contemporary archaeology; Arctic
  5. General Statement:
    Archaeology at Memorial has a growing international reputation founded on the breadth and quality of faculty research, excellence in teaching and state-of-the-art facilities. We have unique strengths for student opportunities in historical archaeology, archaeological sciences, and the ancient indigenous past. State-of-the-art laboratories specializing in applied archaeological sciences, archaeobotany, archaeoentomology, archaeological conservation, prehistoric, historical and aboriginal archaeology integrate researchers into community-university research initiatives from Northern Labrador and the Arctic, to French Guiana and from British Columbia to Northwest Europe. As one of the largest Archaeology departments in Canada, we train our graduate students to become effective researchers, critical thinkers, and active stewards for our shared archaeological heritage.
  6. For More Information Contact:
    Vaughan Grimes, Graduate Officer, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada; phone: 709.864.8861; fax: 709.864.2374; email: vgrimes@mun.ca; Web page: https://www.mun.ca/become/graduate/programs/archaeology.php