Faculty Research | St. Francis Xavier University

Terry Beaulieu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Mikael Haller, Ph.D., Associate Professor

 Emergence and development of complex societies; quantitative methods and computer applications to archaeology (GIS/CAD), urban anthropology; settlement patterns; household archaeology; colonialism; gender and identity; public archaeology; Mesoamerica; Lower Central America.

L. Jane McMillan, Ph.D., former Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities – Full Professor

Legal anthropology, critical Indigenous justice studies, Mi’kmaq treaty rights implementation, Indigenous self-government, livelihood and resource management, engaged and applied participatory action research, and Indigenous research methodologies.

Susan Vincent, Ph.D., Full Professor

Development anthropology, Anthropology of globalization, Community development, Peru.

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The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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