Anthropology Faculty
Please see below to find out more about our exciting sociocultural anthropology faculty, who have a range of backgrounds and research and teaching interests.
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Dr. Carolyn Ramzy Publishes New Book “Taslim: We Are the Prophets”
We’re excited to share that Dr. Carolyn Ramzy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has published a new book of poetry titled Taslim: We Are the Prophets…
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Prof. Blair Rutherford Wins 2025-26 FASS Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Professor Blair Rutherford on being selected to receive the Arts and Social Sciences 2025–2026 Research Excellence Award! The FASS Research Excellence Awards (REA)…
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SOAN Anthropology Faculty Co-Author New Article: “From Ottawa, for Palestine: Nadia Abu-Zahra’s poetry against genocide”
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is proud to announce the recent collaboration of faculty members Carolyn Ramzy, Danielle Dinovelli-Lang, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, and Vivian Solana…
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Anthropology Professor Vivian Solana Publishes New Article in American Ethnologist
Anthropology Professor Vivian Solana’s latest article, “An Imperial Meantime: The Invisible Violence of a Humanitarian Peace in Western Sahara,” has been published in American Ethnologist.…
Anthropology Faculty and Their Research Interests
| Name, Contact Information, and Research Interests | |
|---|---|
 | Virginia Caputo* virginia.caputo@carleton.ca Gendered childhoods; girlhood; children’s rights; feminist theories and methodologies; transnational feminism; globalization; schooling; youth and media; violence; health |
 | Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan* marieeve.carriermoisan@carleton.ca Feminist and visual anthropology; political economy and governance of care, sexuality, intimacy; affect and emotion; sexual and gender politics; infrastructures of care and disability |
 | Danielle Dinovelli-Lang* danielle.dinovelli@carleton.ca Human-Animal relations; value theory; posthumanism; natural resource economies; U.S./Indigenous politics; Alaska |
 | Matthew Hawkins matthew.hawkins@carleton.ca Soccer supporters; political uses of memory, emotion and affect; social movements; urban anthropology; Argentina |
 | Beatriz Juárez-Rodríguez** beatrizjuarezrodriguez@cunet.carleton.ca Political anthropology; race and racialization; ethno-racial social movements and the state in Latin America; black feminism; African diaspora studies; memory studies |
 | Jean-Michel Landry* jeanmichel.landry@carleton.ca Political anthropology; critical theory; postcolonial studies; religion; gender; migration; the Middle East |
 | Bernhard Leistle* bernhard.leistle@carleton.ca Phenomenological anthropology; phenomenology; psychiatric anthropology; anthropology of performance; semiotics; Morocco |
 | Donna Patrick* donna.patrick@carleton.ca Linguistic ethnography; Indigeneity; transnationalism and urbanization; Arctic, language endangerment and revitalization |
 | Jen Pylypa* jen.pylypa@carleton.ca Medical anthropology; health and well-being of women and children; transnational adoption; single parenthood; immigrant health; global migration of health workers; Southeast Asia, especially Laos and Thailand; immigrants in North America |
 | Carolyn Ramzy* carolyn.ramzy@carleton.ca Feminist and anti-racist ethnomusicology; Egyptian Coptic Christian music; popular musics of the Middle East and connected diasporas; politics of citizenship and belonging; gender and the sounding of religious subjectivities; virtual ethnography and field research; decolonizing music scholarship; critical race and diversity studies |
 | Daniel Rosenblatt* daniel.rosenblatt@carleton.ca Indigeneity; middleclassness; electronic media; identity; cultural theory |
 | Blair Rutherford* blair.rutherford@carleton.ca Politics and possibilities of international development; civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa; anthropology of citizenship, gender, state and globalization; colonialism and post-colonialism; migration; public anthropology |
 | Vivian Solana* vivian.solana@carleton.ca Political and feminist anthropology; postcolonial studies; forced displacement; anti-colonial revolutionary movements; gender; generation and transnational activism |
Anthropology Faculty in Other Departments
| Name and Contact Information | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Melanie Adrian* melanie.adrian@carleton.ca | Minorities rights in religiously, ethnically and culturally diverse societies |
| Logan Cochrane** logan.cochrane@carleton.ca | Food security; climate change; social justice; governance and collective action |
| Cati Coe Cati.Coe@carleton.ca | Transnational migration, Care, Aging, Social Protection Policy, West Africa |
| Lyndsey Copeland* lyndsey.copeland@carleton.ca | Music, sound, and performance; cultural heritage; environment; indigeneity; collaborative methodologies; sub-Saharan Africa |
| Chiara Del Gaudio** chiara.delgaudio@carleton.ca | Decolonising design; gender and design; participatory design; political design; speculative and critical design; strategic design for social innovation |
| Sandra Fahy* sandra.fahy@carleton.ca | Refugees; migration; famine; food security; disease; incarceration; oral history; online media; populism; misinformation and state crimes; geographies including East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East |
| Karen Hébert* karen.hebert@carleton.ca | Environmental politics in the subarctic North; resource industries and commercial fisheries; struggles over sustainability |
| William Hébert** william.hebert@carleton.ca | Critical criminology, prison studies; gender and sexuality studies; legal and medical anthropology |
| Kahente Horn-Miller* kahente.hornmiller@carleton.ca | Indigenous methodologies; Indigenous women; identity politics; colonization; Indigenous governance; consensus-based decision making |
| Hollis Moore** hollis.moore@carleton.ca | Criminal law and marginalization; incarceration and critical carceral studies; police violence in the Americas |
| Monica Patterson* monica.patterson@carleton.ca | Children/childhoods; memory; violence; race and racialisation; visual culture; heritage; museums, curating; sub-Saharan Africa |
| Megan Rivers-Moore* megan.riversmoore@carleton.ca | Intersections of sociology, gender studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies; how sexuality operates transnationally; gendered affective labour, travel and tourism; race and ethnicity; postcolonial and transnational feminisms; qualitative methods |
* May supervise both MA and PhD theses
** May supervise MA theses and co-supervise PhD theses until granted tenure, when will have full supervision status.
*** May co-supervise MA and PhD theses with the permission of Graduate Studies
Supervision status is granted based on rank. If you have questions about supervisory status, please consult the Graduate Administrator. The legend above is meant as an indication only. Please make sure to consult with the faculty you’re interested in working with. This table indicates which types of professors, instructors, and adjunct faculty are eligible to serve as Supervisors, Co-Supervisors, and Committee members for M.A. and Ph.D. student theses.
Meet our Sociology Faculty Members
Meet our Adjunct Professors & Adjunct Research Professors
