The School of Anthropology enjoys a long tradition of academic excellence, and today is ranked one of the top five programs in the United States.

David Killick and Frances Hayashida (2022). Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru,ca. 1030–1180 cal AD. Journal of Archaeological ...

The University of Arizona has a long legacy of anthropological research in the Southwest region that spans all subfields of anthropology and involves numerous other campus units. This theme promotes ...

The School of Anthropology celebrates its graduate alumni as they continue on their riveting careers! Our alumni, reaching all the way back to 1928 when the first M.A. degrees in archaeology were ...

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language as a social and cultural practice.

I am a socio-cutural and medical anthropologist. In my scholarship I draw on insights garnered from over two decades of field-based research that has centered on multi-dimensional aspects of violence, ...

Vance Holliday is both an archaeologist and geologist who has spent much of his career reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which past societies lived, and how these ...

Applied archaeology is an emerging field of study within Anthropology that creates and uses knowledge in the context of application. The M.A. in Applied Archaeology at the University of Arizona is a ...

Professor Terry Hunt focuses on human and environmental histories of the Pacific Islands, where he has conducted field research throughout the region for more than four decades. Dr. Hunt has conducted ...

The University of Arizona School of Anthropology offers opportunities for concentrated graduate study in all principal sub-disciplines of anthropology: archaeology, biological, linguistic, and ...

This course introduces the student to anthropological perspectives on cultural diversity. The course focuses on gender, race, ethnicity and class through readings by and about peoples of the ...

The School of Anthropology offers a graduate certificate in medical anthropology for motivated health science professionals, scholars from the developing world, and social scientists in the U.S. who ...