Featured Instructors

-Associate Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz

"This innate desire to know about people pushed me to study... anthropology, and it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."

-Lecturer Annapurna Pandey

"My goal is to build an isotope lab full of happy students working on research questions related to prehistoric human populations and living primates."

-Assistant Professor Vicky Oelze 

"Anthropology allows you to be a flexible and understanding person, and to see the world's complexity from a specific point of view."

-Lecturer Guillermo Delgado-P.

"Our anthropology labs are a great space for students to try out lab work and see what there is that inspires or repulses them."

-Lab Manager Richard Baldwin

 "I love teaching anthropology majors because they push me to think."

-Associate Professor Nancy Chen

 "Anthropology cultivates a critical sensibility of questioning common misunderstandings about how the way things are or should be."

-Department Chair Mark Anderson

 "Anthropology allows you to be curious about everything, from poetry to history to climate change models."

-Associate Professor Andrew Matthews

"I strive to conduct (Indigenous archeology) that is relevant to the histories and needs of communities who have often been excluded in North America."

-Assistant Professor Tsim Schneider