Faculty

Susanne Kuehling
Department Head; Associate Professor
PhD (Australian National University)
Office: CL 306.2
E-mail: susanne.kuehling@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4195
Current classes
Fall 2023 - ANTH 401-001
Research interests
- Gift exchange
- Place
- Personhood
- Migration
- Gender
- Ethics
- Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia)

Tobias Sperlich
Associate Professor; Associate Dean (Undergraduate)
DPhil (University of Oxford)
Office: CL 411
E-mail: tobias.sperlich@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4137
Current classes
Spring/Summer 2023 - ANTH 100-397
Research interests
- Polynesia (esp. Samoa, New Zealand)
- Museum Ethnography
- Community Museums in Saskatchewan
- History of Anthropology
- Anthropology of Art
- Material Culture
- Tourism

Gediminas Lankauskas
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Toronto)
Office: CL 306.4
E-mail: gediminas.lankauskas@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4181
Current classes
Fall 2023 - ANTH 307-001
Research interests
- Social memory
- Nationalism
- Selfhood
- Material culture
- The state
- Authoritarianism
- Colonialism
- Social change.

Carlos David Londoño Sulkin
Professor
PhD (University of St. Andrews), Título de Antropólogo (Universidad de Antioquia)
Office: CL 306.3
E-mail: carlos.londono@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5405
Current classes
Fall 2023 - ANTH 100-001, ANTH 239-001
Research interests
- Anthropology of Morality and Ethics
- Pragmatism
- Relativism
- Indigenous Amazonia
- Semiotics and Language
- Female Genital Surgeries
- Anthropology of Science

Alex Oehler
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Aberdeen)
Office: CL 306.5
E-mail: alex.oehler@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4770
Pronoun(s): he/him
Website: https://alexoehler.wordpress.com/
Current classes
Fall 2023 - ANTH 100-991, ANTH 242AO-001
Research interests
- Environmental Anthropology
- Circumpolar Ethnography
- Human-animal relations
- Interspecies communication
- Canadian Arctic Studies
- Siberian Studies

Charisma Thomson
Lecturer
MA (Carleton University)
E-mail: charisma.thomson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4766
Current classes
Fall 2023 - ANTH 100-003, ANTH 100-397, ANTH 242AB-001
Research interests
- Ritual
- Symbolic Anthropology
- Performance
- Material Culture
- Popular Culture
- North America
- Medical Anthropology
Chris Kortright
Sessional Lecturer; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology
PhD (University of California)
E-mail: Chris.Kortright@uregina.ca
Current classes
Spring/Summer 2023 - ANTH 242AJ-040
Research interests
- Anthropology of science
- Global capitalism
- Crop biotechnology
- International development
- Posthumanist anthropology
- Resource and food security
- Politics of innovation

Cheyanne Desnomie
Sessional Lecturer; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology
E-mail: cheyanne.desnomie@uregina.ca
Research interests
- Indigenous identity
- Oral histories
- Colonialism and decolonization
- Social memory
- Indigenous ways of knowing and being

Julie Mushynsky
Sessional Lecturer
PhD (Flinders University)
E-mail: julie.mushynsky@uregina.ca
Current classes
Spring/Summer 2023 - ANTH 242AK-397
Research interests
- Conflict archaeology
- Archaeology of colonialism
- Museum studies
- Landscape and seascape archaeology
- Heritage studies
- Applied anthropology
Staff

Bettyann Paterson
Administrative Assistant
Office: CL 306.1
E-mail: bettyann.paterson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4189