Dawn Bari

Anthropology M.Sc. Student (2024-)

Project: Exploring the Residential Mobility at the 19th century Cemetery of Saint Louis, Quebec City

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Bio

Dawn is a first year M.Sc. student in TEAL, and her thesis will use sulfur and strontium isotopes to study the geographic origins of individuals that likely perished in an 1833 cholera outbreak in Quebec City and may have recently migrated from Ireland. While she may be new to TEAL, she is not new to Trent, having done her undergraduate degree here as a joint major in Anthropology and Biology. Dawn got in to anthropology because she is fascinated by the skeleton and all its working parts; this fascination has taken her on trips to the Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, ON (see the thesis work of Alexis Rausch for more on this) and the Kourion site in Limassol, Cyprus. At both sites, Dawn worked cataloguing skeletal remains and studying signs of disease; concha bullosa in Limassol and typhus in Kingston. Dawn is looking forward to learning more about stable isotope analysis and making new friends on campus, which we are all sure she will! In her spare time, Dawn is both an athlete (hiking, badminton, volleyball),  amateur builder (Legos), and film buff. We are thrilled to have Dawn joining us in TEAL, especially if she shares her mean charcuterie board-making skills and pictures of her adorable cats (Pebbles and Sprinkles) and dog (Austin). Bio by Rachel Dickenson. 

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TEAL Awards and Honours

🏆 2024 Best CN Analytical Session (shared with Moses Akogun)

🏆 2024 Best CN Sample Replciate (shared with 2024/25 Grad Class)

🏆 2024 Lowest δ13C Value (shared with 2024/25 Grad Class)

🥉 2025 Lab Olympics Bronze Medal: Pipette Transfer