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
Recognizing the Achievements of the Department of Anthropology’s Graduate Students in Spring 2023
The Department of Anthropology wishes to celebrate the recent accomplishments of our graduate students. Aida Arosoaie has received National Science Foundation funding to support her dissertation fieldwork in …
April 28, 2023- More UW-Madison Anthropology News posts
Event Calendar
- October
- October 6Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series"The Spatial Characterization of Early Copper Metal Production in the Bronze Age of the Southern Ural Mountains, Russia" By Dr. Bryan Hanks, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh12:00 PM, Online
- October 13Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum LectureSirikan Charoensiri, “The State of Thailand’s Human Rights and Democracy after the 2023 Election”12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
- October 23Department of Anthropology Colloquium "Social Aging in Wild Chimpanzees" By Dr. Zarin Machanda, Departments of Anthropology and Biology, Tufts University3:30 PM, 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
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