Projects
Conference Presentations
1 / Alexie Roy, Meghan Pidskalny, Jocelyn S. Williams
Isotopic Insights into the Life of Irish Emigrants Following the Great Famine. CABA/ACAB 2026 Presentation slides
2 / Courtney Geddes, Jocelyn S. Williams; Lucía Watson; Sarita Fuentes; Denise Pozzi-Escot; Andrew Nelson
Bioarchaeological Investigation of Tuberculosis Using Computed Tomography: Case Studies from the Peruvian Central Coast.
CABA/ACAB 2026 Poster presentation
Computed Tomography in Bioarchaeology: Assessing Tuberculosis in Human Mummified Remains from the Central Coast of Peru.
CLLAC 2026 Presentation
3 / Maxime Petit and Jocelyn S. Williams
Dentine as a Record of Early-Life Nutrition: Stable Isotope Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen Using Micropunch Sampling.
CABA/ACAB 2026 Poster presentation.
Reconstructing Early Life Nutrition Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis in Incremental Tooth Dentine
CLLAC 2026 Presentation
Mummies as Microcosms
SSHRC Insight Grant $253,531.00. Co-Investigator with Andrew Nelson (Western University). Mummies as Microcosms II - Integrated analysis of pre-hispanic mummy bundles from Puruchuco, Peru
The project co-director, Andrew Nelson, was recently on quirks and quarks talking about the summer fieldwork season. Scroll down to the Inca mummies segment.
Diet in early Irish Immigrants
SSHRC Explore Grant - Internal $6328.00. Diet, Death and Diaspora: Stable Isotope Analysis of Irish Emigrants in the Aftermath of the Great Famine.
I currently have two undergraduate research assistants working with me on this project, both were student volunteers last year.
Facilities
Trent houses a diversity of research centres, labs and instruments that facilitate our research. Materials are prepared for isotopic analysis in the archaeological chemistry lab that is housed in the LHS building at Trent. In addition to this prep lab, our students have access to a world class human osteology, paleopathology and paleoanthropology collection, a comparative zooarchaeology collection, microscopy and a world class isotope analysis facility.
Focused on the stable isotope analysis of fauna, flora and human remains. Directed by Dr Paul Szpak, Canada Research Chair in Environmental archaeology.
Zooarchaeology & Microscopy
Trent houses an extensive comparative North American faunal collection and research lab, curated and directed by Dr. Eugène Morin . We also have a microscopy lab directed by Dr. Laure Dubreuil.
This is the most comprehensive mass spectrometry facility in Canada. They analyze a variety of heavy and light isotopes and provide training and analytical services. Directed by Dr. Paul Szpak.
Human Osteology Teaching lab
Housed in the Department of Anthropology, this lab houses a large collection of medical skeletons, pathology casts, primate and paleopathology casts and comparative materials.