
Joshua Dent Ph.D. (Josh)
Josh's research focus is Canadian provincial archaeological policy, heritage legislation, heritage data management, and Indigenous engagement in cultural resource management. Currently, he is a Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow at Sustainable Archaeology of Western University in cooperation with Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc. He is a licensed Professional Archaeologist in Ontario with 12 years of practical and research-based cultural resource management experience. He has supervised commercial work in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon. He is co-founder of the Archaeologist’s Almanac, Chair of the London Heritage Council, resource member on the City of London’s Advisory Committee on Heritage (LACH), and member of the LACH Archaeological Sub-Committee.
Originally from Prince George, British Columbia, Josh currently lives and works in London, Ontario.
Selected Works:
2017 Tailors-Made: Heritage Governance Customization in Late Modern Canada
2013 False Frontiers: Archaeology and the Myth of the Canadian Wilderness