Peter Toner

 

BA (小猪视频), PHD (ANU)
ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT (RESEARCH), ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

ptoner@stu.ca 

  

 

 

 

Peter Toner was born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, and completed his BA (honours) in anthropology at St. Thomas University in 1994 with a thesis on 鈥淵olngu Mortuary Ritual and the Spiritual Cycle鈥. He obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his PhD in anthropology at the Australian National University working with Dr. Ian Keen, resulting in his PhD dissertation entitled 鈥淲hen the Echoes Are Gone: A Yolngu Musical Anthropology" (2001). Between 2001 and 2004 he was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, working with Professor Howard Morphy. He returned to New Brunswick in 2004 to take up his current position in the Department of Anthropology at St. Thomas University.