Meet Our Faculty
Transformative Research
Learn more about our faculty's innovative and transformative research on the human experience and the research themes that cross-cut our program. Much of their research is supported with a wide variety of external grants and fellowships.
Award Winning Teachers
Our faculty have been recognized for their excellence in teaching, including three recipients of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. More than half of our faculty have been recognized with the UW Housing Honored Instructor Award.
Anthropology faculty, staff, and students draw on a comparative framework as we seek to understand human diversity, distinctiveness, and universality through time and across the world. Anthropology spans the humanities, the social sciences, and the biological, cognitive, and evolutionary sciences, bringing an interdisciplinary vitality to research and teaching on some of the most important issues facing humanity today: conflict and violence, human rights, power struggles, migration, environmental change, cultural identity, political and economic life, food, and understanding the ways that cultural meaning, history, and power have shaped the human experience.
Recent News
Professor Amy Stambach Appointed an International Affairs Fellow by Council on Foreign Relations
Amy Stambach, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Anthropology, was appointed an International Affairs Fellow for Tenured International Relations Scholars, part of the Council on Foreign …
September 11, 2024UW Anthro Grad Students Attend RAI Meeting in London
Earlier this summer from June 25th-28th, four graduate students in our department attended the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2024 Anthropology & Education Conference in London, England. Graduate students Zunayed …
July 23, 2024- More UW-Madison Anthropology News posts
Event Calendar
- November 2024
- November 8Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series"In the Shadow of Giants: the Earliest Ballcourt Sites in the Puuc Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands" by Dr. Ken Seligson, California State University Dominguez Hills 12:00 PM, Online
- December 2024
- December 3LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series“Perspectives on COP30 and the Role of Amazonian Governance in Brazil” 12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
Also offered online
- January 2025
- January 23The Ho-Chunk People: Planning for the Future with Lessons from the PastArboretum Winter Enrichment Lecture10:00 AM, Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum