Studying anthropology prepares you for a world where nearly every challenge we face, from public health to environmental change to technology to conflict, is a human one. Anthropology gives you the tools to understand people across cultures, across continents, and across millions of years.
Anthropologists don’t just read about the world, they go out and experience it firsthand. You might excavate an ancient city, analyze fossils that trace human evolution, preserve an endangered language, study how communities experience illness and healing, or examine how wildlife tourism affects both visitors and the species they come to see. Along the way, you’ll gain:
- A wider lens – You’ll learn to question assumptions, including your own, and see familiar things from unfamiliar perspectives.
- Real research skills – Fieldwork, interviewing, data analysis, lab methods, and critical writing, often through hands-on experience beginning as an undergraduate.
- Skills that transfer – Cross-cultural understanding, careful observation, and clear communication are valued in health care, education, museums, government, nonprofits, tech, business, and beyond.
Our faculty and students work across cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, studying everything from human evolution and ancient cities to language, health, and heritage today.
The Department’s mission is to maintain the vision of anthropology encapsulated in these strengths among its faculty, graduate students, undergraduate majors and other students taking anthropology courses and to foster an understanding of anthropology within the university community and beyond. For more information, please review our mission statement.
