Research

The Department of Anthropology is committed to research that expands our understanding of humanity. Through collaborative projects, innovative scholarship, and hands-on learning, faculty and students work together to investigate the people, cultures, and histories that shape our world.

Departmental Research

Check out a few of the ways our department has been staying busy lately: 

Local human history

Archaeology students lead by Kelly Goldberg and Ph.D. student Nina Schreiner dug deep while excavating a site at Sesquicentennial State Park. 

A worldly study of cultures

Cultural anthropologist Magdalena Stawkowski has studied the human impacts of nuclear testing in remote areas of Kazakhstan. 

Humor, hostility and hospitality

John Doering-White used ethnographic fieldwork to examine how jokes and teasing play a big role along the Central American migrant trail through Mexico. 

A multicultural look at languages

Linguistic anthropologist Jennifer Reynolds produced an ethnographic film of bilingual multicultural kindergarten classes serving children ages 4-6 in a rural school located near San Martin Sacatepéquez, Guatemala.