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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Biology in Context: A 30-Year Partnership in Northern Argentina
Professor Claudia Valeggia began working with the Qom in 1996, when an interest about breastfeeding and fertility brought her to the community.
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Yale Peabody Museum and the University of Alaska Museum of the North recently agreed to an important specimen exchange
Famed Alaskan sled dog Togo was exchanged for a collection of many small mammals from Cambodia, creating new opportunities for each institution.
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Professor Eduardo Fernandez-Duque part of team advocating that there is a biological substrate to being a dad and that we should tap into it
They suggest that tapping into the biology of fatherhood can provide a path forward with clear benefits to men, women and children.
