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Graduate Student Supervision

The following list details all of Heather M.-L. Miller's current and past graduate students as of 2025. All received degrees in Anthropology from the tri-campus Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, unless otherwise noted.

 

Current PhD Students

Savanna Buehlman-Barbeau

Alannagh Maciw, co-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson

 

Past PhD Students

2018 - 2025   Dr. Rachele Andrea Bianchi co-supervised with Prof. Liye Xie

Morphological Style, Technological Style of Alloying, and Cultural Interaction: Insights from Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Objects from Central Asia and west-central North China.

Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Univ. of Toronto, 2018 - 2022

 

2014 - 2020    Dr. Andrew Harrisco-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson

Early Theravāda Place-Making in the Shadow of Mount Meru: Negotiating the Architecture, Space and Landscape of “Buddhist Terraces”/Prah Vihār at Angkor Thom, Cambodia c. 13th – 16th Centuries.

 

2013 - 2019    Dr. Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty

Subsistence based economy and the regional interaction processes of the Indus Civilization borderland of Kachchh, Gujarat: A bio-molecular perspective.

 

2010 - 2018    Dr. Candis L. Haak

Corporeal Experience and the Material World of the Vijayanagara Sacred Landscape: 600-1325 CE.

 

2009 - 2017    Dr. Susan Jean Beckwith, co-supervised with Prof. Ted Banning

The Built Environment: Spatial and Social Interaction at Pot Creek Pueblo, New Mexico

 

2005 - 2017    Dr. Matthew Scott Mosher 

The Architecture of Mohenjo-daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Urban Neighbourhoods.

Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2006 - 2009

 

2005 - 2015    Dr. Gregory Vincent Braun

Ritual, Materiality, and Memory in an Iroquoian Village

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 2008

 

2004 - 2011    Dr. Jennifer L. Campbell

Architecture and Identity: The Occupation, Use, and Reuse of Mughal Caravanserais.

Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2004 - 2007

 

2003 - 2009    Dr. Michael W. Gregg

Organic Residue Analysis and the Earliest Uses of Pottery in the Ancient Middle East.

Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2005 - 2007

Social Science & Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Scholarship, 2009 - 11

 

Past Visiting International Graduate Students (PhD)

2016 - 2018    Shuang Wu   

Early Celedon Production and Distribution in the 2nd-6th centuries AD/CE and the Yue Kilns of Zhejiang, China

Two-year Chinese Scholarship Committee fellowship

 

Past Masters Students

2023 - 24        Nattha Chuenwattana, co-supervised with Prof. Gary Crawford 

MA: Morphological Changes in Rice Awns Due to Traditional Crop-Processing: An Experimental Archaeological Approach to Craft Production Process 

 

2020 - 21        Stéphanie Frenette

MA: Ways of Investigating the Provisioning and Internal Fish Trade of the Indus Valley: The Past Informs the Present

 

2020 - 21        Alannagh Maciw, co-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson

MA: Ancient Andean Feasting: a Comparison of the Symbolic Power of the Chicha Serving Vessels of the Moche and Inka

 

2014 - 15        Erika Johannsen, co-supervised with Prof. David Smith

MA:  Experimental Study of Firing Methods by Iroquoian Potters at the Keffer Site, Ontario

 

2012 - 2013    Steffan Gordan

MA: Building with Earth in Shang China: An Exploratory Investigation of the Production and Organization of Mudbrick & Wattle-and-Daub Construction

 

2010 - 2012    Jessica Thiele 

MSc: Draft and Architecture: the role of architecture in the production of draft in ancient metal working

 

2007 - 2008    Amanda Pollock

MA: Burial Practices of the Indus Valley Tradition, from the Neolithic to the Integration Era