Anthropology Prof. Shalini Shankar is both a scholar with a deep interest in her research of sociocultural anthropology and a guide for students in her classrooms. Shankar published two books about ...

This is a list of courses that satisfy the Biological Anthropology sub-field course requirements. Several courses are listed under more than one subfield. A course may fulfill one, and only one ...

Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...

This track focuses on the role of language in social life. Students in the SAIL track will be introduced to a variety of theories and methods for analyzing language in diverse sociocultural, ...

Relationships between people-- and people and things-- are fundamental to human embodiment, identity, and political and social alignment, shaping experiences of inclusion and exclusion. How do ...

It’s been four years since I wrote for The Chronicle. Last anyone heard of me, I was a freshly minted Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology, back from the circus (really) and leaving to take up an ...

Just months after the Anthropology Department voted not to renew sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber’s contract, rumors are swirling that the department may lose as many as six ...

The growth of American anthropology is examined in terms of its beginnings in field observation, through its later place in the academic realm, to its contemporary move toward contributing to the ...

Not everyone who takes Anthropology courses is planning to major in the discipline. Any member of the Anthropology faculty will be glad to talk to you informally about the field and our class ...