Ongoing research projects in the Department engage a range of critical themes including: medicine and culture; politics, inequality and sovereignty; migration and borders, economy, finance, corporations and law; materiality and aesthetics; gender, personhood and identity; ethics and humanitarianism; humans and animals; colonialism and post-coloniality.
Explore Anthropology Research
Student Research Opportunities
The Department of Anthropology has many partners on campus and around the world that enable our students and faculty members to explore collaborative research opportunities. Students can work with faculty but are also encouraged to develop their own skills at imagining, designing and executing individual research projects.
The Freedman Fund for Undergraduate Research, funded by an endowment established by Randy ‘75 and Howard ‘74, MBA ‘75 Freedman, supports undergraduate students in undertaking anthropological research.
Anthropological research is engaged with local communities. It is committed to empirical observation. And it is shaped by advanced theoretical understandings of practice and process, tradition and transformation. These are a few highlights of our current work:
Faculty Research Spotlights
Upcoming Events
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Friday 03:00 PM
Anthropology Colloquium: David Carballo
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
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Tuesday 05:00 PM
Power and Public Memory
Location: Morrill Hall, 107
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Friday 03:00 PM
Anthropology Colloquium: Emily Hayflick
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
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Monday 05:00 PM
A New Era of Political Mobilization: Who were the Yellow Vests in France?
Location: Uris Hall, G08
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Monday 04:45 PM
The Terror and the Time and In the Sky's Wild Noise I Victor Jara Collective - Film Screening and Discussion
Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum
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Friday 12:00 PM
Media Studies Colloquium: Natasha Raheja
Location: Uris Library, 311