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Joe was born and raised in Hamilton, ON, though his father’s family has deep Acadian roots in Nova Scotia where Joe visited often in the summer’s growing up. Joe completed his undergraduate degree in Anthropology at McMaster University and his M.A. at the University of Western Ontario in the former Bioarchaeology stream of the Anthropology programme. He has just recently been awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Though he considers himself to be a medical anthropologist, he strives for the well-roundedness of Franz Boas realizing the importance of all sub-fields that comprise Anthropology. Specialty Areas: Historic epidemics; ethnohistory; demography; mathematical disease modeling; agent-based models; island populations; genealogy; 19th century Research Interests: Joe’s dissertation research
started from a personal hobby of genealogy and expanded to become eventually
directed at understanding the scarlet fever epidemic of 1876-77 in Cape
Breton through ethnohistory and mathematical disease modeling. He is currently
in transition from math-based models to agent-based models. Working with
a colleague in Colorado he hopes to achieve a fluid agent-based model
on the scarlet fever epidemic soon and then expand that to include other
epidemics that happened in the late 19th century in Cape Breton. He is
also actively pursuing research on a skeletal population from his M.A.
thesis which contained individuals from the 19th century bearing evidence
of some unique physical characteristics, syndromes, and diseases. |
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