The Baltimore Banner has profiled Anthropology faculty member Anand Pandian and his work on Jones Falls 2076, a public art project asking Baltimore residents to envision the city’s buried Jones […]
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.
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Sabine Mohamed co-edited an Open Book on Capture/Connect/Shift with Jatin Dua (U. of Michigan)
This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the directorship of AbdouMaliq Simone. The eight original inquiries in this collection […]
Sujung Kim Featured in The New York Times on South Korea’s First Robot Monk
Sujung Kim was recently featured in The New York Times discussing the ordination of South Korea’s first robot Buddhist monk. The article, titled “Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk […]