Interdisciplinary Collaboration
UConn anthropology researchers collaborate across subfields within our department and programs across the University. Several of our faculty hold joint appointments with departments, centers, and institutes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They also work with scholars at other universities in the U.S. and abroad.
Joint Appointments and Affiliations
The field of anthropology is inherently multidisciplinary, bringing together theory and methods from the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Our faculty hold joint appointments or affiliations with:
- Africana Studies Institute
- Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
- Cognitive Science Program
- El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies
- Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
- Institute for Systems Genomics
- Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)
- Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Institute of the Environment
- Sustainable Global Cities Initiative
Research Collaborations
Researchers in the Department of Anthropology collaborate closely with scholars across UConn. Examples include:
Departments and Programs
- American Studies
- Cognitive Sciences
- Earth Sciences
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Education
- Engineering
- Environmental Studies
- Geography
- History
- Maritime Studies
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Natural Resources and the Environment
- Political Science
- Psychological Sciences
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Centers and Institutes
- Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
- Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development
- El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies
- Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
- Humanities Institute
- Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy
- Institute for Systems Genomics
- Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences