Professor Gloria Goodwin Raheja has worked in archives across Appalachia and conducted oral history interviews to explore the ways American vernacular music registered transformations in the social and economic landscapes of coal mining communities in the 1920s and 1930s.

Updates on the activities of the Department of Anthropology by Chair Karen-Sue Taussig

“I’m using every facet of what I’ve learned.” By combining the skills learned in her anthropology degree, design, and her interest in health care, Monica Looze has found her ideal profession at Mayo Clinic.

Anthropology involves the comprehensive study of human experience. The most basic questions anthropologists ask are “How are humans the same, and how are they different in all times and in all places on earth?” but also “What distinguishes the human from other species and how do different humans understand that difference?” Anthropologists explore these questions by examining people through biological, archaeological, linguistic, and social lenses.

How is homophobia measured in Haiti? Cultural anthropology assistant professor Erin Durban-Albrecht has spent a decade studying LGBTQ rights in the Caribbean nation and found that there is still progress to be made.

Kat Hayes and anthropology students are working with Gordon Parks High School to bring archaeology to the classroom. They have the perfect location for their teaching and research: the green space right next door.

December 4, 2017, 4:00pm Cowles Auditorium--Dame Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, "Time’s Challenges: Abrupt transitions and future imaginings"

What would it take to make a life in space? Cultural and linguistic anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota David Valentine has spent years researching the space settlement movement, and the complications of relocating the human race into space.

Through a summer field school course at the University of Minnesota, students have been collaborating with Ed Fleming, Curator of Archaeology at the Science Museum of Minnesota to explore and excavate an ancestral Native American village.