New Medical Anthropology MA at the University of Saskatchewan

The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan is pleased to announce a new MA program in Medical Anthropology/Anthropology of Health at University of Saskatchewan, commencing fall 2010. The Anthropology graduate program is designed to provide students with leading edge training in theoretical and methodological approaches to the discipline. Graduates of the program will be well-prepared to continue their studies at the doctoral level in anthropology as well as professional health programs (such as public health), or to pursue private sector opportunites in the health and social service sector.

Strengths of the program include:

•       Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples’ health
•       Global health
•       Gender and health
•       Disability
•       Mental health
•       Traditional healing
•       Infectious diseases & syndemics
•       HIV/AIDS
•       Environmental health
•       Engaged methodologies
•       Ethnography
•       Cityscapes and urban health
•       Policy analysis

Participating Faculty Include:

Sylvia Abonyi, PhD (McMaster University)
Medical and health anthropology; cultural determinants of  population health; Indigenous people; Canada and Hungary
Michel Desjardins, PhD  (Université de Montréal)
Medical anthropology and disability studies; cultural study of the altered; politico-symbolic aspects of inclusion and exclusion processes; sexuality, reproduction and parenthood of people with an intellectual disability
Pamela Downe, PhD (York University)
Medical anthropology, gender and health; infectious diseases and syndemics; HIV/AIDS; health repercussions of violence; globalization
Paul Hackett, PhD (University of Manitoba)
Medical geography; historical and geographical patterns of the health of Western Canada’s First Nations
Sadeq Rahimi, PhD (McGill University)
Medical anthropology; Middle Eastern culture and politics; cultural psychiatry; political subjectivity; psychoanalytic theory
James B. Waldram, PhD (University of Connecticut)
Medical, psychological and psychiatric anthropology; cultural aspects of mental health and illness; anthropology of therapeutic intervention;Indigenous people; Canada; Belize
Clinton Westman, PhD (University of Alberta)
Environmental anthropology; symbolic anthropology; Cree/Métis ethnology; Christianity; Northwestern Canada

Application deadline: January 30, 2010

For more information visit:
http://www.usask.ca/medanth

or contact:

James B. Waldram ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Saskatchewan
55 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK   
Canada  S7N 5B1
(306) 966-4175