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 International Research at TrentDr. Anne Keenleyside, Anthropology Dr. Keenleyside has recently begun exploring the diet of past populations using stable isotope analysis. She has conducted fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic, Siberia, and Romania, and is currently conducting a bioarchaeological study of skeletal remains from a Greek cemetery (5th to 3rd centuries BC) on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, and a Roman cemetery (2nd to 4th centuries AD) on the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia. In the new bioarchaeology lab of the recently opened DNA Building, she will be studying the health and diet of past populations. Dr. Robert Wright, History Dr. Wright has been examining the close relationship between former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro that lasted for more than thirty years. A specialist in Canadian-Cuban relations, Prof. Wright began investigating the nature of their enduring friendship following Castro’s rare appearance outside of Cuba to serve as an honorary pall-bearer during Mr. Trudeau’s funeral in 2000. Also, Dr. Wright was invited by the Canadian Embassy in Cuba to give the keynote address during the University of Havana’s National Canadian Studies conference. Dr. Gavin Fridell, Politics Prof. Fridell is known as an expert in global politics. His areas of interest include global political economy, international value chains, the politics of Latin America and the global South, development theory, and world history. He has conducted research on the politics and history of fair trade coffee and is currently working on a new project dealing with international commodity agreements in coffee and bananas. Dr. Brad White, Biology Dr. White’s research focuses on integrating ecological field data and individual organism DNA profiles in geographic data bases. Some of his specific research is essential in determining if the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, found on the west coast of Taiwan, is distinct from those found off the coast of Hong Kong and in other Chinese waters. Thanks to research conducted by Trent University conservation biologists in the Biology Department, a small group of pink dolphins on the west coast of Taiwan are now recognized as a critically endangered population by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dr. Tim Stapleton, History Dr. Stapleton’s research areas connect to Botswana’s development priorities and include indigenous knowledge, peace and culture, HIV and tourism. He is also a historian of Africa with specific research interests focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, and the themes of resistance to colonial conquest, the development of ethnic identity, oral tradition as historical evidence, and war and society. Dr. James Conolly, Anthropology Dr. Conolly’s project involves cataloguing faunal evidence, such as the remains of pigs, cattle, goats and sheep, from hundreds of archaeological sites into one master database and linking this data to digital maps of the continent. This will allow him to interrogate and interpret the different patterns and rates of spread of domestic animals across Europe. Dr. Conolly’s studies of the agricultural history of Antikythera, a remote island of Greece, will be examining the ancient remains of agricultural terraces built over the last 5,000 years to determine the underlying causes of agricultural intensification related to demographic pressure. **These profiles are meant to illustrate the range of ongoing projects among faculty at Trent and are not meant to be a comprehensive list of international research projects currently underway.** |