Welcome to Cornell Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at Cornell offers courses of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Sociocultural and Biological Anthropology and Archaeology.
Sociocultural anthropology considers the social and cultural circumstances of all cultures, from dominant societies to marginalized groups. Archaeology recovers and interprets material traces of past societies and provides historical perspective on recent cultures. Biological anthropology clarifies aspects of the physical diversity of the human species, explores the human fossil record, and studies closely related primate species in comparison to humans.
Staff & Contacts
- Nerissa Russell, Department Chairperson
nr29@cornell.edu - Kurt Jordan, Director of Graduate Studies
kj21@cornell.edu - Andrew Willford, Director of Undergraduate Studies
acw24@cornell.edu - Bruce Roebal, Administrative Manager/Personnel and Budget Manager
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263 McGraw Hall; 607-255-3505 - Donna S. Duncan, Graduate Field Coordinator Fields of Anthropology, Archaeology
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261 McGraw Hall; 607-255-6768 - Margaret Rolfe, Undergraduate Coordinator Fields of Anthropology, Archaeology
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261 McGraw Hall; 607-255-5137
Events
- Feb 13 “Repugnant to the Nature of the Straight Line:” Non-Euclidean Geometry, Conventionalism, and the Ontological Turn in Anthropology" - Paul Nadasdy, Cornell Anthropology
- Feb 13 AGSA Workshop: Lauren Hansen (City & Regional Planning) - Big Construction, Big Opening, Big Development: Liberalism and Legitimacy on China’s New Silk Road
- Feb 14 Meet the Author - Nerissa Russell
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Faculty Books
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia
Frederic W. Gleach
Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.