2024

Prof. Amy Clark Buried beneath modern cities, Roman amphitheaters, and Medieval churches lie subtle traces of Europes earlier occupants: campsites littered stone tools and animal bones, human bodies preserved in bogs and frozen in ice, and cave walls...

Dr. Damina Khaira By Arrangement This is a full year research and writing seminar limited to senior honors candidates. The course is intended to provide students with practical guidance and advice during the thesis writing process through structured...

Dr. Damina Khaira By Arrangement This individual tutorial is for anthropology students intending to write a senior thesis, and is normally undertaken with an advanced graduate student during the second term of junior year. Students will have weekly...

Prof. Malavika Reddy T Th 10:30-11:45am This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to social/cultural theory in light of anthropological methods, arguments, concerns, and writing. As a discipline, anthropology is rooted in conveying and...

Prof. Christina Warinner W 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM This course will focus on archaeological thinking, the cognitive skeleton of the discipline of archaeology, the principles and the logic that are the foundation of all archaeological conclusions and research...

Prof. Michael Puett M W 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM What is the best way to live a fuller and more ethical life? Concretely what should we do to begin to live in a more flourishing and inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical...

Prof. Jason Ur M W 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM In a time when histories are being contested, monuments removed, and alternative facts compete with established orthodoxy, how do we evaluate competing narratives about what really happened in the past? What happened...

Profs. Matthew Liebmann and Daniel Smail T Th 12:00-1:15pm Who are we, how did we get here... and how far back in time do we have to go to start asking the question? When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is...

N/A By Arrangement For students engaged in teaching as a Teaching Fellow. Student should register for four credits per section. Not counted towards PhD requirements.

N/A By Arrangement Students enrolled in PhD in Anthropology should utilize this course to indicate time spent researching and reading outside of coursework. Oftentimes used towards maintaining full-time status, when not enrolled in coursework or writing...