2025

Prof. Matthew Liebmann M 12-2:45pm This graduate-level seminar takes a comparative view of colonialism through the consideration of case studies from around the world, with a focus on encounters and interactions between peoples of different cultural...

Prof. Shayla Monroe M W 10:30-11:45am Laboratory course on the fundamentals of faunal analysis, including skeletal anatomy, species identification, acquisition and quantification of primary and secondary osteological data, and interpretation of data using...

Dr. Elisa Tamburo M 3-5:45pm The course aims at introducing students to the ethnographic study of cities and the urban environment. The course is divided into two parts: the first will introduce theoretical approaches, derived from sociology and...

Dr. Damina Khaira W 3-5:45pm “Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs are in my song The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then Makes no difference what group I'm in I am everyday people, yeah, yeah” “Everyday People” (1968) by Sly and...

Profs. Amy Clark and Joe Henrich Th 9-11:45am Jointly offered as HEB 181 Humans are a cultural species. Unlike other species, we are heavily reliant on learning from others to acquire many important aspects of our behavior, and this capacity for cultural...

Dr. Chengrui Zhang T Th 1:30-2:45pm Description: What are the origins of Chinese civilization? What was society like before the development of the large states that would eventually merge to form the Chinese empire over 2000 years ago, essentially forming...

Prof. Christina Warinner M W 6-7:15pm All good research begins with a strong foundation. This course is aimed at providing you with the foundational knowledge and basic tools you need to succeed as a professional archaeologist. Aided in part by guest...

Prof. Gabriella Coleman T 9-11:45am This required seminar offers an overview of theoretical trends in social anthropology and situates these trends within longer genealogies of social thought. Required of candidates for the PhD in Social Anthropology. Not...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness M W 10:30-11:45am This course introduces undergraduate students to the discipline of Sociocultural Anthropology. Lectures will develop and explain sociocultural anthropology’s central questions and discoveries, concepts and...

Prof. Shayla Monroe T 9-11:45am Survey of African Archaeology from 12,000 BCE to present.