Professor Gregory A. Reinhardt, Chair; Professor John Langdon, Professor Stephen P. Nawrocki, Associate Professor Christopher W. Schmidt, Assistant Professor Philip H. Young.
As the world's most comprehensive academic discipline, anthropology considers virtually everything that has to do with human beings — past, present, and future — everywhere in the world. Anthropology divides itself into four fields, each with its own distinctive interests. Anthropological linguistics takes a humanistic approach to describing languages and dialects. Archeology concentrates on material remains relating to living and prehistoric peoples, human ancestors, and the things they make and use. Biological anthropology considers human populations and how they vary physically and also studies monkeys and apes and their behaviors. Sociocultural anthropology examines modern groups of people and their cultures. Unifying all four fields is a focus on culture: what people use, how they act, and what they imagine. This department offers two majors, in Anthropology and Archeology, plus a minor in each of these two fields. .
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