Invited Speaker

Congraulations to Dr. Janice Graham on being iinvited by the University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology to be a Lansdowne Lecturer! Dr. Graham will present on 18 March, 2010 at a Public Lecture entitled; Safer, Better, Faster: Will Drugs Be Safer or Just Easier to Get?

New Team Productivity Report

Click here to see the TRRU Team Productivity Report (April 2009).

New Members

We are pleased to welcome Amrita Mishra, Farah Huzair and Alexander Borda-Rodriguez to the TRRU team.

Dr. Emma Varley, a Killam Scholar, recently joined the TRRU team.

The Killam Scholarship recognizes the very best in graduate and postgraduate education. Dalhousie is one of only four universities in Canada to award Killam Scholarships and Prizes, which have made a huge difference in the lives and research of its recipient graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Emma Varley received her MA in Anthropology at UBC in 2002, and completed her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at the University of Toronto in September 2008, under the supervision of Dr Michael Lambek. In 2008, she published two chapters concerning her doctoral fieldwork in Pakistan's Northern Areas, its focus on women’s reproductive health amid sectarian conflict and also fieldwork methods during strife. She is currently preparing articles based on her thesis, as well as recent consultancy work in southern Thailand on behalf of CIHR, where she investigated post-tsunami health service provision. Since 1998, Emma has also authored and co-authored numerous policy reports during overseas consultancies, including research on behalf of SEVA Canada in Tanzania, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Pakistan’s Northern Areas and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan. As part of her Fellowship in Bioethics, Emma intends to produce a book and several journal articles, as well as conference and lecture, concerning the inter-relationships between Islam, women’s health and use of biomedical and traditional health services, and patient-physician interactions – both internationally and with special regard to Halifax and the Maritimes.

Christina Holmes successfully defended her dissertation entitled:
Seeds, Scientists & Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetic Engineering Practices and Global Connections in April 2008 and graduated with her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology  at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Christina is currently an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie.

Elizabeth Toller successfully completed her thesis entitled: Framing Regulation as Competitive Advantage: an Anthropological Analysis of Natural Health Product Commercialization in April 2008 and graduated with her Masters in Social Anthropology from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Elizabeth is currently working for Health Canada in Ottawa, in Strategic Horizontal Policy and Regulatory Affairs.