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
Archaeological Site in CT Older than 10,000 Years!
Check out this excellent article on the Brian D. Jones site in Avon, CT, dated to 12,5000 years old, and read what some of our UConn Anthropology Alumni working on the site have to say. The CT Insider article can be found here.
[Read More]Exciting Courses On Offer
We have a host of exciting courses on offer for 2022, including some new ones; ANTH 3098 – The Archaeology of Resistance – explores how radical challenges to power structures are made through the perspectives, experiences, and material practices of activists, revolutionaries, and subaltern insurgent movements. Click here for more information. ANTH 3095 – Technology […]
[Read More]Medical Anthropology Conference Recording Available
On May 17 2021 Françoise Dussart co-organized, alongside Sohyun Park, an interdisciplinary conference entitled Design and Research for Healthy Communities and Healthcare Facilities. The record of this conference is still available and will be until next year, and can be found here.
[Read More]New Classes on Offer
We have a few new classes on offer this upcoming semester. ANTH 3095 – Technology and Society: Archaeological Perspectives with Professor Christian Tryon, and ANTH 3098 – The Archaeology of Resistance with Professor Nathan Acebo. Check out the attached fliers for more information! Technology_Society_Flyer_Spring_2022 Flyer ANTH3098 Arch and resist
[Read More]Events Around Campus
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Alumni Spotlight
Austin Hill is a Research Associate at Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology
Alumni Spotlight
Madelynn von Baeyer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute.
Alumni Spotlight
Sarah Sportman is currently serving as the Connecticut State Archaeologist.
Alumni Spotlight
David Leslie is a Senior Archaeologist at the Archaeological and Historical Services Inc., and a Research Scientist at UCONN
Alumni Spotlight
Jacqueline Meier is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida
Alumni Spotlight
Timothy Ives is the State Archaeologist of Rhode Island
Alumni Spotlight
Marie Brault is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute
Alumni Spotlight
Bayla Ostrach is an Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Master's Program in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice
Alumni Spotlight
Mandy Ranslow is a Federal Highway Administration Liaison at the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Alumni Spotlight
Ann Cheney is Associate Professor in Residence at School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside
Alumni Spotlight
Nathan Wales is a lecturer with the Department of Archaeology, at the University of York (BioArCH)
Alumni Spotlight
Jordan Kiper is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
Alumni Spotlight
Shan-Estelle Brown is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Yale University School of Medicine
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John Shaver is an Associate Professor at the University of Otago
Alumni Spotlight
Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University Department of Anthropology, Post-doctoral Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute
Gabriel Hrynick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of New Brunswick
Alumni Spotlight