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.
News
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Michael Dove featured in the Yale News
Yale anthropologist Dove argues that a more holistic approach to the study of natural history would help counter growing skepticism of science
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PhD candidate Sarah Martini publishes chapter on the Neolithic of Serbia
Sarah Joy Martini recently co-authored a chapter in collaboration with an international team of researchers from Serbia, Germany, and Poland
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Marcia Inhorn featured in the Atlantic
Professor Marcia C. Inhorn explains hypergamy, hypogamy, and American dating culture.
