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.
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.
Marcia Inhorn recognized for outstanding career by Association for Feminist Anthropology
Inhorn, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, has been awarded the 2025 AFA Career Award for her many contributions to the field of feminist anthropology.
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PhD Student Jack McBride and Professor Eric Sargis publish paper on morphological variation and sexual dimorphism in colugos
Colugos are relatively understudied mammals, despite their likely position as primates’ closest relatives.
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Professor Eduardo Fernandez-Duque discusses, "What does it really mean to be a dad?" on Terrestrials, a Radiolab podcast
Dr. Fernandez-Duque has spent decades studying owl monkey dads in the forests of Argentina.
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Postdoctoral Researcher Julia Arenson and Professor Eric Sargis part of team describing a new fossil monkey assemblage from the Pleistocene Markaytoli Site at Ledi-Geraru
These fossils add to a growing record of fossil colobines and guenons from the Pleistocene of the Afar Region.
