The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that PhD student Sophie D’Anieri has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for the 2025–2026 academic year. Sophie will conduct […]
Cultures and Traditions
The Department of Anthropology specializes in socio-cultural anthropology: the study of social and cultural forms of human life using ethnographic, historical, and comparative methods.
- Degrees Offered BA, PhD
- Major Anthropology
- Minor Anthropology
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Graduate Program
Train in anthropological theory, using regional and cultural understanding to cross-cut problems, and ethnographic research methods conducted through intensive fieldwork.
Faculty
Faculty explore themes such as the everyday, the state, religion, media, and health; focusing on the challenges of our own moment in history.
Major in Anthropology
Undergraduate coursework introduces the methodologies and theories of anthropology through discussion and directed research.
News & Announcements
Alaa Saad Receives Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship
Anthropology graduate student Alaa Saad was recently awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in support of her project “Prompting the Past, Crafting the Present: Replication Technologies and […]
Graduate Student Fernando Lopez Vega Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship
Anthropology graduate student Fernando Lopez Vega was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation in support of his project “Education and Vocational Training in […]