Biological Anthropology at the University of Manitoba

A fundamental goal of Anthropology is to provide a global perspective on issues of human culture and variation. Biological anthropology seeks to understand the interactions between human behaviour and biology over the long-term evolution of the human species. Biological Anthropology at the University of Manitoba forms part of a broad undergraduate curriculum in anthropology, and strong research intensive graduate program in human osteology and biomedical anthropology. Undergraduate courses cover a variety of topics on human evolution, human diversity, growth and development, human osteology and forensic anthropology, and diseases and mortality in past populations. At the University of Manitoba, Biological Anthropology is uniquely situated to both draw from and contribute to the subdisciplines of Sociocultural Anthropology and Archaeology. For more information on specific programs, please see the Departmental website.

Currently there are four biological anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Robert D. Hoppa, and Dr. Stacie Burke. Adjunct members of the department include physical anthropologists Dr. Linda Larcombe (Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba), Dr. Jesper Boldsen (University of Southern Denmark), Dr. Emily Holland (Brandon University) and geochemist Dr. Mostafa Fayek (Canada Research Chair in Isotope & Environmental Geochemistry, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba). In addition, several other faculty members in the Department of Community Health Sciences have research expertise within the field of medical anthropology.