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.
Rick Bribiescas elected to Polish Academy of Sciences
For two decades, Yale anthropologist Richard Bribiescas, a leading expert on human evolutionary biology and a PI of the Yale Reproductive Ecology Laboratory (YREL), has collaborated with scholars at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland — the country’s flagship research institution. His election recognizes his long partnership with these colleagues.
Kathryn Dudley wins Conrad M. Arensberg Award
Dudley, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, received the lifetime achievement award in honor of her outstanding contributions to the anthropological study of work. Some of the reflections in honor of Professor Dudley can be read about here, published in Volume 47, Issue 1 of Anthropology of Work Review.
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Professor Richard Bribiescas elected to Polish Academy of Sciences
His election recognizes his long partnership with Jagiellonian University colleagues in Krakow, Poland — the country’s flagship research institution.
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Recent graduate Dr. Sarah Joy Martini and current PhD student Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo publish article on excavations they led in the foothills of far northern Peru
The article summarizes the chronology of site occupation, and identifies contemporary social groups around the Andes.
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Recent graduate Dr. Sarah Joy Martini receives Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Prehistoric or Protohistoric Archaeology
The award was presented at the XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences held in Poznań, Poland.
