S.P.A. (Sean) Desjardins, Dr PhD

Current courses:

• Towards Humanity: Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution (FoA/GGW, BA minor)
• What We Leave Behind: Anthropological Archaeology (FoA/GGW, BA minor)
• Inhabiting Cultural Worlds: Introduction to Anthropology (co-taught with P. Berger) (FoA/GGW, BA/minor)
• Introduction to Arctic Archaeology (GIA, BA)
• Archaeological Theory (co-taught with L. de Jong) (GIA, ReMA)
• Inhabitants of Polar Areas (co-taught with M. Loonen and others) (Arctic and Antarctic Studies Minor, BA)
• Exploitation of Polar Areas (co-taught with M. Loonen and others) (Arctic and Antarctic Studies Minor, BA)

Previous courses:

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (GIA, BA)
• The Anthropology of Domestic Spaces (GIA, ReMA tutorial)
• Classic Arctic Ethnography and Ethnohistory (GIA, ReMA group tutorial)
• Our connection with a Fast-Changing Arctic (co-taught with M. Loonen and others) (Rudolf Agricola winter school)
• Zooarchaeology with labs (McGill U., BA)
• Human Evolution with labs (McGill U., BA)

Certification:

• Dutch University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) (Ducth: Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs [BKO]), 2020

Current PhD supervision:

• E.J. (Emily) Ruiz Puerta: PhD supervision (daily supervisor) with P.D. Jordan (Lund U.) and M.T. Olsen (U. Copenhagen). Part of the EU Horizon 2020 innovative training network (ITN) SeaChanges (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 813383).
• L.R. (Linde) Draissma: PhD supervision (2nd supervisor) with E.K. Wilson and S. Heron (James Cook U.).
• F. (Fanny) Sikström: PhD supervision (2nd supervisor) with M.W. Dee and M. Kuitems.

Previous PhD supervision:

• M.I. (Matilda) Siebrecht: PhD supervision (daily supervisor) with P.D. Jordan (Lund U.) and A. van Gijn (Leiden U.). Matilda carried out use- and micro-wear analyses of Tuniit (Dorset Paleo-Inuit/Pre-Inuit) organic artifacts. Successfully defended in October 2023.