Due to COVID-19, the Department of Anthropology offices will be closed beginning on March 17th, 2020, until further notice. During this time, faculty and staff will be telecommuting from home and will be most accessible via email. Please visit our Department People page for individual contact information. For general questions, please reach out to anthroinfo@mailplus.wisc.edu or (608)262-2866. Our office staff will be checking their voicemail regularly. UW-Madison will begin alternative course instruction on March 23rd, 2020, to continue through the end of Summer 2020 semester.
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
In support of racial equity
On June 4, I shared the following letter with members of our departmental community. For days now, I have been seeking words and phrases that would express the depth of sadness and horror I feel …
June 8, 2020The Department of Anthropology Celebrates Spring 2020 Graduating Students
Every Spring semester the Department of Anthropology holds a Graduation Reception, where they welcome graduating students, their friends, and family to honor their achievements. This Spring, they did things a little differently with a live …
May 12, 2020- More UW-Madison Anthropology News posts
Event Calendar
No events returned.
Connect with us! 