Anthropology Department Welcome Events
New Graduate Student Orientation
Monday, August 26, 2019
8:00 am - 12:15 pm, room 5230 Social Science Building
Anthropology Colloquium
Friday, September 6, 2019
3:00 - 4:00 pm, room 8417 Social Science Building
Anthropology Fall Reception
Friday, September 6, 2019
4:00 - 6:00 pm, third floor terrace, Social Science Building (8417 if raining)
Anthropology Picnic
Friday, September 20, 2019
4:00 - 10:00 pm, Burrows Park
pay and sign up in the main anthropology office
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
- UW Research ‘Angels’ Help Find and Identify American MIAsA UW team has helped the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency find and identify three missing World War II veterans in Europe and recently returned from a trip to Belgium to look for remains …August 25, 2019
- Drawing a Bead on the Indus CivilizationAugust 23, 2019
Event Calendar
- September
- September 30Anthropology ColloquiumWhat Can I Do with a Degree in Anthropology? 3:30 PM, 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
- October
- October 10CSA Fall Lecture Series: Zulfiqar Kalhoro (Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Development Studies, PIDE, Islamabad)Memorial Stones in Sindh: Meanings, Symbols and Motifs12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
- November
- November 14CSA Fall Lecture Series: Ajantha Subramanian (Professor, Anthropology & South Asian Studies, Harvard University)Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall