What's your Hockey Nickname?
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/hockey-nicknames-heavy-metal-band-names New research on hockey nicknames, heavy metal bands and...
Our Research Papers on "People’s Names: Identities and Inequalities"
Sharing UWO Anthropology research on names: Dr. Karen Pennesi's keynote address and a paper by PhD candidate Federica Guccini, both...
To Name, or Not to Name
Do you think the names of criminals should be made public? A new book compares journalistic practices in several countries revealing a...
Do you look like your name?
Research shows people can look like their name! https://theconversation.com/do-you-look-like-your-name-74781 our-name-74781
Culturally sensitive ways to learn names that are unfamiliar to you
This article offers some suggestions for teachers to learn unfamiliar names of their students. For more do’s and don’ts, check out my...
She knows you think her name is different. But Dr. Marijuana Pepsi's work speaks for itself.
I can't wait to read Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck's dissertation on Black names in white classrooms! https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/21/us/marijua...
The Fascinating Research Behind Baby-Naming
This article summarizes some interesting research findings. For instance, research by Phil Erwin has shown that a first name cannot only...
Changed Names, Changed Identities
Why do some people change their names? This article discusses some of the reasons people in Canada choose to adopt another name and...
The Science Behind Naming Your Baby
This research from the Columbia Business School investigates the "science" of naming children. Some of their findings are that female...
Canada's Project Naming: Identifying the unidentified
"When you acknowledge people have names, it lends more credence to their life experience." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-383336...