Christine Giancarlo

Education:
Chris received her Masters Degree in Anthropology in 1995 from the University of Calgary and her Ph.D. in Human Services from Capella University of Minneapolis in 2001.

Office:  EA3187
Phone: 403.440.5990
E-mail: cgiancarlo@mtroyal.ca

For more than 11 years, Chris has worked to demonstrate to students and others how science and culture are linked together as the potential key to the future. With her side interests in biology and geography, she suggests a new worldview that is both productive and sustainable based on communication -- between individuals, between factions within society and between whole cultures. During her fieldwork in Texas, she studied a population of semi free-ranging snow monkeys. This work provided her with many insights into the common evolutionary past of primates, especially in mother-infant relationships, nurturance, aggression and dependence on social and environmental circumstances.

She now applies these lessons from non-human society to human culture in such areas as human sustainability, global population growth, the environment, gender expectations in society, multiculturalism, cross-cultural relations, team building and role playing to help corporations and government agencies forge stronger, more strategic and profitable relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and community stakeholders.

She is a frequent guest speaker, having presented at the University of Calgary, Canadian Public Relations Society, City of Calgary, Chapters Bookstores and the Alberta Nurses Association, for examples.