About Us

Our faculty share an interest in the holistic study of humans and a curiosity about the varieties of human experience. We believe that such an understanding forms an integral part of an undergraduate liberal education, and that the application of insights gained from such an understanding will contribute critical elements to the solution of contemporary medical, social, economic, and political problems. Our Department works across several broad areas of concentration, including Cultural Anthropology; Experimental Anthropology; Human Rights; Medical Anthropology; New World Archaeology; and Old World Archaeology. Our area strengths include Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Southwest Asia. Our faculty has also worked in Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. We offer extensive expertise in many research methods in ethnology and archaeology. Our Department is part of The Higher Education Opportunities Act. If you would like to support the Anthropology Department, please visit College of Liberal arts and Sciences.

Departmental News

Alex Brittingham our latest PhD recipient

September 24, 2021

We would like to congratulate Alex Brittingham for a successful  defense of his PhD dissertation Research on September 23rd titled:  “Stable isotopes in the Southern Caucasus:  Modern Variability, Preservation and Archaeological Applications”. Alex is a recipient of Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Earth Sciences and Institute of Archaeology the Hebrew University of […]

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UConn Anthropology Statement on the MOVE Bombing Case

June 23, 2021

In response to the realization that remains of victims from the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia were kept and used by anthropologists for a prolonged amount of time without consent from the victims’ family, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut supports the collective statement released by the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), […]

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Statement on recent acts of hatred

April 30, 2021

We are deeply disturbed that the individual arrested on April 29, 2021 for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a building at the University of Connecticut was a major in the department of Anthropology. We condemn this individual’s act in the strongest terms. Such acts go against the core values of our department and our anthropological community […]

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Richard A. Wilson named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor

April 29, 2021

Dr. Richard Ashby Wilson has been selected as one of 5 faculty members to be honored as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. In addition to being a professor with the Department of Anthropology, Wilson serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Intellectual Life in the School of Law, a Professor of Law, and is the […]

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Events Around Campus

  1. Oct 21 Archaeology Seminar Series4:00pm
  2. Oct 22 Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense - Ashley L. Graham2:00pm
  3. Oct 26 Virtual Sociocultural Seminar Series3:00pm
  4. Nov 4 Archaeology Seminar Series4:00pm
  5. Nov 16 Virtual Sociocultural Seminar Series3:00pm