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Research Themes

Our faculty members engage in innovative research with a wide mix of sub-disciplinary approaches. Geographical strengths are centered on the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa, with additional interests in Europe. The following research themes represent key strengths, specifically where faculty expertise crosscuts individual sub-fields of anthropology. These research themes are frequently reflected in course offerings; prospective graduate students are invited to use these as guides in planning coursework. In some cases, existing or planned graduate concentrations offer ways to group classes more formally.

Department faculty use a range of methods in their research, including traditional participant-observation and interviews, quantitative methods, discourse analysis, participatory action research, oral history and ethnohistory, visual methods and media analysis, archaeological science and field methods, anthropometrics, and DNA analysis techniques. This methodological expertise is reflected in the variety of courses offer