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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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April 27, 2023
Marcia Inhorn, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and Professor in the MacMillan Center, is the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Mentor Award from Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Graduate Mentor Award recognizes faculty members who are exceptional in fostering the... Read more
April 14, 2023
Congratulations to Maurice Rippel, a third-year PhD student in African American Studies and Anthropology, who has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, for his project entitled: “The Privileged Prospects: Education,... Read more
April 11, 2023
Congratulations to Shalini Iyengar, a third-year PhD student in sociocultural anthropology, who has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, for her project entitled: “Making the Coastal Zone: Law, Livelihoods, and... Read more
April 7, 2023
Christina Carolus, a PhD Candidate in Archaeology, has been awarded a P.E.O. Schlar Award. P.E.O. Scholar Awards are one-time, competitive, merit-based awards intended to recognize and encourage academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs. These awards are based on... Read more
March 7, 2023
Professor Jessica Thompson and Yale Postdoctoral Associate Benjamin Davies, together with Justin Pargeter (NYU), have received three years of funding from the National Science Foundation to support research entitled “Cultural and environmental drivers of biological regionalization in the Late... Read more