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Anthropology
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Recent News
Three LSA Professors Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows
LSA professors Regina Baucom, Daniel Forger, and Raven Garvey have been named recipients of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most distinguished fellowships for scholars, scientists, writers, and artists.
Anthropology Subfields
What does it mean to be human? Where have we come from? How do we live and communicate? What forces have shaped human physiology and social life?
Anthropology Is About:
Understanding how we produce goods and power, make kinship and gender, decide what is right and wrong, build and destroy environments -- all in such a variety of ways;
Studying language and other forms of communication, such as new media, technology, and the arts;
Through archaeological excavations, examining big picture changes in society, culture, and biology over time -- from the deep human past to the fraught realities of lives unfolding today;
- Investigating the evolution of human and non-human primates through study of adaptation, genetics, behavior, and ecology -- confronting the contours and limits of human uniqueness.
Events
Featured
Apr
30
Anthropology Honors Research Poster Symposium
10:30 AM
Titiev Library (Room 211)
West Hall
Upcoming
Apr
24
When Ancestorship Isn’t About Descent: The Inka corporate groups as a house society
Isabel Yaya McKenzie, Associate professor of Historical Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
12:00 PM
2218
School of Education
May
01
Anthropology Graduation 2026
1:30 PM
Auditorium 3
Modern Languages Building
