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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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.
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.
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Commemorating 500 Years Since the First Failed Spanish Invasion of Kushkatan, El Salvador 1524-2024: Symposium Proceedings Published
PhD candidate Carlos Flores Manzano leads presentation highlighting the recent publication of the June 2024 symposium proceedings
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PhD candidate Sarah Martini publishes paper on excavations in the highlands of northern Peru
Her NSF-funded research provides the first radiocarbon dates and intriguing evidence for social connections with Ecuador and central Peru
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Catherine Panter-Brick's research demonstrates a link between volunteering and empowerment in Jordan
Her research shows how Syrian refugees and Jordanian women articulated feelings of empowerment, satisfaction and the benefits of volunteering
