Christopher Wai

PhD Student
c.wai@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Archaeology
  • Sociocultural Anthropology
  • South and Central America

Areas of Interest

Major/minor fields: Warfare, Landscape Archaeology, Conflict, Identity, Moche, Iconography, Ritual, Violence, Gender, Colonialism, Survey and Excavation Methodology, Public Archaeology, Curation

Research Region: Peru, Andes

Working Dissertation

Title

Communities in Crisis: Conflict and Identity at Cerro Prieto Espinal, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

Supervisors

Edward Swenson

Biography

My doctoral research focuses on the rise of fortifications and practices of ritual and violence on the North Coast of Peru spanning from the Moche to Chimu-Inka periods. Elsewhere, I have participated in fieldwork in Cambodia, Jordan and Ontario. I am also an alumnus of the Master of Museum Studies program at the UofT, with a focus on curation and collections management.

Cohort

  • 2019-2020