Culture, health & inequality
A concern with inequality brings together scholars across anthropology's fields whose research highlights the social, cultural and historical context of inequalities of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, racialization, health and wealth. Faculty seek to bring the tools of anthropology to enable ways of achieving more equitable futures in the context of the legacy of colonialism, capitalism, financialization and industrialization.
With faculty expertise on capitalism, finance, political economy, alternative monetary forms, health and social inequality, a prominent focus in this thematic area is the critical analysis of disparity and creative efforts to redress it. This theme likewise draws special attention to struggling, agency, imagination and thriving among marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Faculty researchers
Recent publications
2026 - Haw J, Senga J, Dordunoo D, Tinga B. Transfusion Medicine. 2026; 1-9.
2025 - Epp H, Dordunoo D, Dompierre KA, Cundiff V, McBride C, Magassa M.
. Rev. Enferm. Contemp., Salvador, 2024;13:
e5770.
2024 - Brown, Rachel. Religious Minorities Online. De Gruyter.
2024 - Brown, Rachel. A Remembrance of Dishes Past. In Fabricating Authenticity, edited by Jason W.M. Ellsworth and Andie Alexander, 34-38. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox.
2023 - Brown, Rachel and Aldea Mulhern. "Muslim Foodways and Pop Culture: Beyond Halal, Boundary Maintenance and SAME Cuisine." Co-authored with Aldea Mulhern. In , edited by Kristian Peterson and Hussein Rashid, 113-128. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2023 - Cowgill, L., Harrington, L., MacKinnon, M., Kurki, H. . American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 182: 177-193.
2022 - Brown, Rachel. ’To Be or Not to Be’ Religious: Minority Religion in a Region of Nones. In Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Paul Bramadat, Patricia O’Connell Killen, and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, 203-221. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2022 - Kurki, H., Holland, S., MacKinnon, M., Cowgill, L., Osipov, B., Harrington, L. . American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(2), 291-306.
2021 - Brown, Rachel. Cooking up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s). In Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics, edited by Amélie Barras, Jennifer Selby and Melanie Adrian, 223-240. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.