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Yale University’s Department of Anthropology was officially founded in 1937 and traces its origins of research and teaching to work done within the Peabody Museum of Natural History (1866) and the Institute of Human Relations (1928). The Department is home to over 30 faculty and nearly 120 graduate students and undergraduate majors.

The Chair of the Deparment of Anthropology is Douglas Rogers. The Director of Graduate Studies is Erik Harms. The Director of Undergraduate Studies is William Honeychurch. Contact information for Academic Directors can be found here. 

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News

Dr. Ellery Frahm talks about fire and early humans on the Ologies podcast

October 1, 2021
Ellery Frahm is the featured guest on the Ologies podcast this week, hosted by Emmy Award-winning science correspondent and humorist Alie Ward. Each week the podcast features a different topic or field in science (or “-ology”), and Dr. Frahm discusses and answers questions about ancient... Read more
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Doctoral Candidate Caitlin Davis awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

September 17, 2021
Caitlin Reddington Davis, a doctoral candidate in anthropological archaeology, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project “Usulutan: Resist Ceramics and Politico-Religious Power in the Terminal Formative Southern Maya Region.” The... Read more

Doctoral Candidate Katherine Daiy awarded NSF Doctoral Research Grant

August 19, 2021
Katherine Daiy, doctoral student in biological anthropology, was awarded the National Science Foundation prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant. She will study the association between indus trialized ecologies and infant gut microbiome development in Samoa, with emphasis on... Read more

Dr. Richard Burger's study demonstrates Machu Picchu older than believed

August 11, 2021
New radiocarbon dates on human remains from Machu Picchu, push the founding of the iconic royal Inca retreat back minimally 20 years, from 1440 to 1420. Samples of 26 individuals recovered from four cemeteries during Yale’s 1912 Machu Picchu excavations were subject to accelerator mass spectrometry... Read more

Professor Serena Tucci publishes on genome structural variation in human evolution

August 5, 2021
Serena Tucci is a co-author of an invited review article on the role of structural variation in human evolution, published in the prestigious journal Trends in Genetics.   The article highlights human-specific structural variants involved in changes in the brain, population-specific structural... Read more
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