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Transformative Research
Learn more about our faculty's innovative and transformative research on the human experience and the research themes that cross-cut our program. Much of their research is supported with a wide variety of external grants and fellowships.
Award Winning Teachers
Our faculty have been recognized for their excellence in teaching, including three recipients of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. More than half of our faculty have been recognized with the UW Housing Honored Instructor Award.
Anthropology faculty, staff, and students draw on a comparative framework as we seek to understand human diversity, distinctiveness, and universality through time and across the world. Anthropology spans the humanities, the social sciences, and the biological, cognitive, and evolutionary sciences, bringing an interdisciplinary vitality to research and teaching on some of the most important issues facing humanity today: conflict and violence, human rights, power struggles, migration, environmental change, cultural identity, political and economic life, food, and understanding the ways that cultural meaning, history, and power have shaped the human experience.
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Event Calendar
- January
- January 31Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series"Tracking Indus Long Carnelian Beads: Technology, Trade and Heirlooming" by Dr. J. Mark Kenoyer, Department of Anthropology, UW-Madison12:00 PM, 5230 Sewell Social Sciences
- February
- February 6CSA Spring Lecture Series 2025Impact of Modernization on Kalash Traditions of Northern Pakistan | Sayed Gul Kalash12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
Also offered online - February 6"Uncovering Ancient Aztalan": Hybrid Badger Talks in Columbus, WIPresenter: Sissel Schroeder6:00 PM, 223 W James St, Columbus, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53925
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