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
The Department of Anthropology Celebrates the Graduating Students of Spring 2021
For the second year in a row, the Department of Anthropology held their annual Graduation Reception virtually to celebrate the graduating students, their friends, and family. https://www.anthropology.wisc.edu/spring-2021-virtual-graduation-event/
May 18, 2021- More UW-Madison Anthropology News posts
Event Calendar
- September
- September 24"An Archaeology Led by Strawberries: Reclaiming, Storywork, & Indigenous Wellbeing"A talk by Dr. Sonya Atalay, University of Massachusetts-Amherst12:00 PM, Online
- September 28
- October
- October 18Department of Anthropology Co-Sponsored Colloquium"The Natural History of Tool Use in Wild Bearded Capuchin Monkeys" by Dr. Dorothy Fragaszy, Dept of Psychology, University of Georgia3:30 PM, 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
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