There is still room in Professor David Valentine's Talking Evidence course this fall! Held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:45am-11am! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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There is still room in Professor David Valentine's Language, Culture, and Power course this fall! Held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1pm-2:15pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Maria Nieves-Colón, tells us about her research in the Caribbean and Latin America. Maria's laboratory uses ancient DNA and modern genomics to study human population history in the Caribbean and Latin America! #umncla #umnproud

There is still room in Professor Kat Hayes's Archaeological Ceramics course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30pm-3:45pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Erin L. Durban, tells us about their research "I have been working on 2 collaborative projects in the last 5 years: an oral history project with disabled anthropologists and another about the UMN's contribution to inequality in housing."

There is still room in Professor Hoon Songs's Symbolic Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm-3:15pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Peter Wells, tells us about her research in Temperate Europe, especially Germany and United Kingdom "Study of Bronze and Iron Age lifeways and visual culture" #umncla #umnproud

There is still room in Professor Hoon Songs's Art, Aesthetics and Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-11:15am! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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There is still room in Professor David Lipset's Great Controversies in Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays from 10am-12:30pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Aisha Ghani tells us about her research, which "combines her interests in the anthropology of religion, political theology, and philosophies of violence, in order to theorize the relationship between Islam and secularism." #umncla #umnproud

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Kat Hayes, tells us about her research Right here! In the University's collections. "I study the university as a collecting institution in order to create new pathways of restoration to concerned communities. " #umncla #umnproud

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Sofía Pacheco-Forés, tells us about her research in Mexico "I use bone and tooth chemistry to study ancient migration and reconstruct the role of immigrants in the emergence of state civilizations in ancient Mesoamerica" #umncla #umnproud

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Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Michelle Brown, tells us about her research in Uganda "I study feeding competition among primates to better understand how it drives social variation. For more info, visit www.NgogoMonkeys.com #umncla #umnproud

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Congrats to our graduates! So proud of you all! #umncla #umnproud

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How do you read an animal's energetic condition from the way it moves? PhD candidate Leonie Gussone has been awarded a Bell Museum Fellowship and Natural History Award to support her research on the links between movement ecology and energetics in red-tailed monkeys in Uganda. #umncla #umnproud

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Please join the Department of Anthropology as we congratulate our 2025 Anthropology Undergraduate Prize Winners! More info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

Anthropology Undergraduate Prize Winners Calendar Year 2025

Each year, the Department of Anthropology recognises the best papers submitted by undergraduate students for a class or a capstone in the fields of archaeology (Elden Johnson Prize), biological…

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