Roger Lohmann

Roger Ivar Lohmann is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trent University specializing in Melanesian ethnography. His research examines cultural dynamics, religion, dreaming, and human ecology with fieldwork expertise in Papua New Guinea.

Current laboratory projects focus on Asabano material culture documentation, linguistic analysis of the Asaba language, and ethnographic film production. He supervises students in cataloging artifacts, developing language resources, and creating films from fieldwork recordings.

His theoretical work explores ritual dream sharing, autotheory-phenomenology connections, and cultural mechanisms for peacebuilding in Pacific societies.