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.
Professor Richard Burger and Lucy Salazar honored by the Peruvian Government
In December 2024, Richard L. Burger and Lucy Salazar were honored by the Peruvian congress for their exceptional and dedicated contributions to Peruvian history and culture.
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.
News
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PhD candidates Evan Singer, Andrés Triana Solórzano, and Shoko Yamada's research featured in Yale News
Their paper, with faculty co-author Micheal Dove, considers the social factors that keep people from evacuating during natural disasters
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Lisa Messeri's course "The Anthropology of Outer Space" featured in Yale News
For their final project, the class displayed a pop-up exhibit at the Peabody to showcase Martian artifacts they created as a world-building exercise
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Ellery Frahm publishes on early hunter-gatherer mobility patterns
This research suggests that differences in mobility and landscape use, not population turnover, are responsible for different technologies
