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
- Learn more about undergraduate Sam Ropa’s summer 2018 internship with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian InstitutionCongratulations to undergraduate Sam Ropa who was awarded a 2018 Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Fellowship and who interned with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural …November 21, 2018
- Welcome to the 2018-2019 Academic Year!Welcome to all of our students, staff, friends, and faculty! We will kick off the new academic year with First Friday events on September 7, 2018: New Grad Student Meetings: Archaeology Section from noon-1 pm …August 29, 2018
- Nam C. Kim and Marc Kissel’s new 2018 book, “Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past,” publishedWhy do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This new book published by Nam C. Kim and Marc Kissel (Routledge Press) examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence …June 15, 2018