Yale University’s Department of Anthropology is home to over thirty faculty, affiliates from many other corners of the University, and scores of graduate students. Our research and teaching interests span the globe, many millions of years of prehistory and history, and the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Our Ph.D. graduates go on to teach in universities around the world and to pursue research in a wide variety of academic and non-academic settings. Our undergraduate major draws students with a passion for the study of humanity, both in the broadest terms and in the specific social, cultural, historical, and/or biological contexts that have shaped human pasts and presents–and that will shape humans’ collective futures.
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Dr. Jenny Tung: the Social Genome in Nonhuman Primates
Studies in nonhuman primates help put the evolution of our own species in context—both as models for deep time evolution and as current sources of insight into the social determinants of health.
Jenny Tung is the Director of the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology at Duke University.
Yale Anthropology welcomes new faculty Christen Smith
Dr. Christen Smith joins the Anthropology faculty as Associate Professor with a dual appointment in African American Studies. She is a Black feminist and African diaspora anthropologist whose work explores the multi-sided dimensions of race, gender, violence, performance and Blackness in the Americas.
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The legacy of James Scott, pathbreaking scholar in the social sciences
Arrow Up Right (link is external)James Scott, professor emeritus of Anthropology, died on July 19. He was passionate researcher and teacher who contributed deeply to Yale scholarship.
Yale Anthropology Welcomes Fall 2024 with New Website!
Feedback encouraged during soft opening
The Department of Anthropology is launching a new website! If you are reading this message, you are already visiting the new site. Maintaining the familiar color schemes and fonts of our previous site, the new version boasts updated staff, student, and faculty profiles, improved organization, and scores of updated images representing department life. The site also meets the highest ADA standards and allows more user-friendly navigation across a broad range of modern devices.
News
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Paul Kockelman's new book on Large Language Models and the AI apocalypse published by Prickly Paradigm Press
Arrow Up Right (link is external)The book, entitled Last Words, provides a critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence
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Chang Liu awarded the Trainee Research Excellence Award by the American Society of Human Genetics
Chang Liu, postdoctoral researcher in the Tucci lab, receives award for research to be presented at the American Society of Human Genetics.
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James Scott posthumously awarded Wilbur Cross Medal
Arrow Up Right (link is external)Former Anthropology professor is awarded Yale’s highest Alumni honor in recognition of his exceptional scholarship, teaching, and public service.
