Jocelyn S. Williams PhD
Bio
I am an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and co-direct the Mummies as Microcosms project in Lima, Peru, alongside Andrew Nelson of Western University and Lucía Watson of University of Wrocław. As a human bioarchaeologist, my research explores how imperial expansion and colonial processes materialize in the body and influence diet and movement. I integrate osteology, paleopathology, and stable isotope analysis, with expertise in mummies and the reconstruction of short-term diet and mobility, with a primary focus on Peru during the Inca period.
Currently, I serve as the Vice-President of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology.
Education
HonBA McMaster University (1998) (Summa Cum Laude)
MA University of Western Ontario (2000) "The People Who Ate the Sea: A Stable Isotopic Analysis of Diet at Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro, Belize" supervised by Christine D. White and Fred J. Longstaffe
PhD University of Calgary (2005) "Investigating Diet and Dietary Change Using the Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen in Mummified Tissues from Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru" supervised by Anne M Katzenberg
Employment
Associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University and director of the Trent Human Bioarchaeology Research lab (THumB). Former director of the Trent Anthropology Graduate program, Trent University Archaeological Research Centre and President of Trent University Faculty Association. I teach in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.