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UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL

  1. Institution Name:
    Université Laval, Québec, CANADA
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Historical Sciences
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology:
    1. Allison Bain (Ph. D Laval, 2000) environmental archaeology (archaeoentomology), landscape archaeology, historical ecology, urban archaeology, archaeology of hygiene and sanitation. Current Fieldwork: Quebec City with collaborations in Labrador, Iceland and Barbuda and Antigua.
    2. James Woollett (Ph.D. CUNY, Graduate Center, 2003) zooarchaeology, palaeoeconomy, historical ecology, archaeology of the sub-arctic and arctic regions, maritime adaptations and economy. Labrador and the North Atlantic (Iceland).
  4. Other faculty members:
    1. We offer co-supervisions with Faculty members in ethnology, history, museum studies, physical geography, anthropology and architectural history. We also have a number of graduate students in co-supervision with scholars from North America and Europe.
  5. General Statement:
    Université Laval in beautiful Quebec City offers an undergraduate degree in archaeology and both master’s and doctoral degrees in historical archaeology within the archaeology program. The master’s program includes advanced field training combined with theoretical seminars and a master’s thesis. The doctoral program requires coursework, comprehensive exams, language exams and a dissertation. There is no residency requirement and a modest faculty and departmental funding is available for all doctoral candidates. A new scholarship competition in place offers funding for the first year of graduate studies on Canadian research. We have outstanding laboratory spaces that include two laboratories in historical archaeology with reference collections and a reading room, as well as other laboratories in environmental archaeology (archaeoentomology and archaeobotany), zooarchaeology, and research on lithic technology (http://www.laboarcheologie.ulaval.ca/accueil). Laboratory and office space is guaranteed for all graduate candidates, and the current enrolment in M.A. and Ph.D. programs is 30 students. The historical archaeology field school has been supported by the City of Québec and the Québec Ministry of Culture since 1982 and, candidates in archaeology are also affiliated with the CELAT research center (http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/), one of the largest social science and humanities research centers in Canada, providing access to further funding, research opportunities and postdoctoral funding. The language of instruction at Université Laval is French, however, masters and doctoral theses may be written, with permission, in English. The university also has a renowned (and reasonably priced) language school (http://www.elul.ulaval.ca/).
  6. For more information on historical archaeology:
    Allison Bain, CELAT, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, CANADA, G1V 0A6, phone (office): 418-656-2131 ext.4014589, email: Allison.Bain@hst.ulaval.ca