Category: People

Associate Professor of Landscape History, University of Leicester.

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…

Helga Vierich lived with Kua hunter-gatherers of Botswana for the better part of two and a half years and then went on to do a further six months in a drought consultancy that included them while Botswana went through the worst drought of its history in 1979. Richard Lee was her thesis supervisor.