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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

  1. Institution Name:
    Simon Fraser University
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Archaeology
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology
    1. Burley, David V. (Ph.D., Simon Fraser 1979; Prof.) traditional history, northwestern North America, South Pacific, 18th-20th centuries.
    2. D’Andrea, Catherine (Ph.D., Toronto 1992; Assoc. Prof.) archaeobotany, New and Old World domesticates.
    3. Driver, Jonathan C. (Ph.D., Calgary 1978; Prof.) zooarchaeology, domesticated faunas.
    4. Hayden, Brian D. (Ph.D., Toronto 1976; Prof.) European/Native contact, ethnoarchaeology, theory, northwestern North America.
    5. Jamieson, Ross W. (Ph.D., Calgary 1996; Asst. Prof.) historical archaeology, Spanish Colonialism, domestic architecture, material culture, ethnohistory.
    6. Nelson, Eric (Ph.D., McMaster 1972; Prof.) applied archaeometry, stable-isotope analysis.
    7. Skinner, Mark M. (Ph.D., Cambridge 1978; Prof.) osteology, forensics, historic cemeteries.
    8. Yang, Dongya (Ph.D., McMaster 1998; Asst Prof.) molecular bioarchaeology, osteology, forensics.
    9. Yellowhorn, Eldon (Ph.D., McGill 2002; Asst. Prof.) Plains and fur trade archaeology, oral history, traditional knowledge, indigenous archaeology.
  4. General Statement:
    The department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in archaeology with the potential to specialize in historical archaeology through thesis study. The full department has 14 faculty appointments holding a range of theoretical and methodological interests. Many of these crosscut historical archaeology, and those listed above are willing to supervise or sit as committee members for historical archaeology students. Students entering the Ph.D. program must have completed the M.A. degree with a written thesis. The department maintains a small museum of Ethnology and Archaeology and has close working relationships with other museums and historic sites in British Columbia. Graduate student support is limited to seven semester fellowships as well as teaching assistantships. University-wide entrance scholarships are also available.
  5. For More Information Contact:
    Merril Farmer, Graduate Secretary, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada. Faculty contact for historical archaeology is David V. Burley; phone: 604-291-4727: fax: 604-291-5666; email: burley@sfu.ca; Website: http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology.