Category: People

Gabriella Kountourides is a DPhil student in biological anthropology and uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the menstrual cycle, drawing on both anthropological and immunological explanations. She began her academic career studying zoology at the University of Leeds and did her masters in human evolution and behaviour at UCL. She then worked as a science…

Dr Helen Cornish is an anthropologist at Goldsmiths College interested in the practices and politics of history-making and how these are navigated through official and informal sources, including the imagination. My research has focused on how modern witches and Wiccans in the UK have navigated challenges to claims about the past, and one key site has been…

Lucy Cooke is a Zoologist, National Geographic explorer, TED talker, New York Times bestselling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker and presenter. She is author of ‘Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal’.

Dr. Vivek Venkataraman is a biological anthropologist at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on the ecology and energetics of human foraging strategies. His main ethnographic fieldwork is conducted among the Orang Asli populations of Peninsular Malaysia. He is the co-director of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (www.orangaslihealth.org).

Liz Henty is Honorary Research Fellow at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom. She is co-editor of the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, and has recently edited ‘Solarizing the Moon, essays in honour of Lionel Sims’ (with Fabio Silva)

Knowledge Keeper, Elder, Lifetime of knowledge of Lac Seul First Nation topography and protocols, including local language,  former journalist and editor at Wawatay Newspaper (https://wawataynews.ca/list-newspaper ), Translator for Oji-Cree and Anishinaabe First Nations Author of the book Indians don’t cry (1977/1982/2014) and the play October Stranger (1978). Currently completing a Masters thesis in cultural anthropology at…

Michael (Mike) Makwa Auksi Has completed Dissertation at McGill University. Toronto-born, Anishinaabe-Estonian who studied at University of Toronto and Ryerson University.  Bear Clan member and a Band member of the Lac Seul FN. Currently studying Indigenous ice hockey histories, community-based participatory sport, and wellness programming.  Qualifications for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics with Team Estonia represented his…

Mary McPherson is a daughter, sister, auntie, and a mixed Anishinaabe member of Couchiching First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, where her family is from. She grew up in Thunder Bay, working as a visual artist in the community while pursuing her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts and Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University. She has since…

Raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Charlton has been a sessional lecturer in the English Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada. She obtained a BA Arts Hons in English and Music and MA in English Literature from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. Her PhD on Anishinaabe Literature from Northern Ontario from the University of Saskatchewan…

Sophie Redlin is a General Practitioner, Mental Health trainer and Masters student in Medical Anthropology at UCL. She is also an aspiring documentary filmmaker and to date has received training from George Chan, BBC Filmmaker and specialist in health and science documentary, and through the Raindance Academy.