Students

At the moment, I am supervising one post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Angela Silva Bessa, who is supporting the curation of a new osteological collection curated at the Department of Archaeology (please see C.O.M. Collection for more information).

I am also supervising five PhD students, Elena Sierra, Tabasom Ilkhan, Cathy Tran, and Pegah Goodarzi. Elena is exploring and developing new morphological approaches for adult age estimation based on the hip bone. Tabasom is interested in the impact of political, economic and social changes on Iranian Bronze and Iron Age populations from an auxological perspective. Cathy is exploring the potential of non-invasive ancient DNA and forensic anthropology methods to identify buried individuals for humanitarian purposes.

I am currently supervising only one MA student, Deanna Alvarez. Deanna is working on dental age estimation methods and dental development in Indigenous children for application in human rights violations investigations. 

In addition, I am co-supervising PhD student Katherine Nichols (with Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, Dr. Deanna Reader, and Dr. Dongya Yang), from the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, whose research focuses on forensic search and recovery methods, and is investigating unmarked graves at the Brandon Indian Residential School in Manitoba in collaboration with Indigenous communities.

Lastly, I am supervising Jaena MacCharles, who is an undergraduate research assistant and is providing support in a number of projects including consolidating bibliographic information about hominin/homind growth, and collection curation.

I have supervised or co-supervised over 40 post-doc, graduate and undergraduate students over the last 15+ years. More about them here soon.

I am NOT taking on new graduate students, until September of 2027.