I joined the University of Victoria in 2010 as a Senior Instructor in Anthropology. I am now an Associate Teaching Professor and I teach Introduction to Anthropology – our four-field survey course, alongside a range of upper level archaeology courses.

I hold a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.  My main areas of interest are the Viking North Atlantic, funerary ritual, gender identities, material culture, migration and Medieval Archaeology. My current research explores the theme of childhood in burial practices in Scandinavian Scotland. My secondary research interests revolve around the scholarship of learning and teaching, with a particular focus on universal design for learning, inclusivity, and decolonisation.

I have received several teaching awards including: UVic’s Excellence in Teaching for Experiential Learning Award (2016), Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (2021), Harry Hickman Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Leadership (2021), and the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award (2023). 

UVic Anthropology: Profile

Selected publications

 2019 – McGuire, E. Whim rules the child: The archaeology of childhood in Scandinavian Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 11.

2017 – McGuire, E. Burning the Midnight Oil: Archaeological Experiments with Viking Lamps. In N. Gonlin and A. Nowell (eds), Archaeology of the Night. University Press of Colorado.

2017 – Baxter, Vey, McGuire, Conway, Blom. Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Childhood in the Past. Childhood in the Past 10.

2016 – McGuire, E. Move along: Migrant identities in Scandinavian Scotland. In E. Pierce, A. Maldonado, and A. Russell (eds), Creating Material Worlds. Oxbow Books. Chapter 4 Halstad McGuire

2010 – McGuire, E. Sailing Home: Boat-Graves, Migrant Identities and Funerary Practices on the Viking Frontier. In E. Anderson, A. Maddrell, K. McLoughlin and A. Vincent (Eds.) Memory, Mourning and Landscape. Amsterdam: Rodopi. McGuire 2010 Sailing Home

2008 – McGuire, E. Students and their Digs: An experiment in enquiry-based learning in archaeology. Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 3(1), 84-101.
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