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
- Prof. Claire Wendland Wins and ACLS FellowshipMay 16, 2019
- Congratulations to our 2019 PhD Graduates!Front row: Prakirati Satasut (PhD 2019), Kiersten Warning (PhD 2019), Prof. Claire Wendland, Qing He (PhD 2019), Brett Hoffman (PhD 2019) Back row: Prof. J. Mark Kenoyer, Prof. Maria Lepowsky, Lauren Glover (PhD 2019), Prof. …May 11, 2019