Programs

• Our major and minor in anthropology provide the opportunity to explore anthropology’s four subfields in cultural, linguistic, and biological anthropology and in archaeology.
• Our Anthropology of Peace and Human Rights Master’s degree is one of the only programs with an explicit focus on peace and human rights, preparing students for careers and future academic work in addressing the complex challenges of our world today.
• Our interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage StudiesOpens an external link. prepares students for careers in various fields, including museum studies and Cultural Resources Management (CRM).
• We have two minors that permit in-depth exploration of topics of interest:
  • Anthropology’s Peace, Justice and Ecology Minor;
  • The interdisciplinary Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies MinorOpens an external link.
• Our collaboration with the Institute for Human Rights provides hands-on learning about cutting-edge human rights issues and approaches to their study.

Resources

The department offers many resources to our students, including:

• an impressive collection of artifacts, hominin casts, and human and non-human primate osteological material for use in biological anthropology and archaeology courses.
• community with fellow students and professors in small classes as well as through the Anthropology Club and the Lambda Alpha National Honor’s Society.
• a speaker’s series, through the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities, that brings one or more major speakers to campus each year.
• opportunities for faculty-directed research and professional presentation.
• Internships within the city and campus.
• faculty with active research agendas who are committed to excellence in the classroom.