Welcome to the Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama offers training in all four traditional subfields of anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Social/Cultural Anthropology.  Click here to learn more about what anthropology is.  We offer an undergraduate minor, and B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in anthropology.  At the doctoral level the department offers two tracks: The Archaeology of Complex societies of Native Americans and Biocultural Medical Anthropology.

Please use the menu bar across the top of the page to learn more about our department, our people, our programs, our courses, or try some of the links to various anthropological web resources at the "More Resources" page.

Department News:

Congratulations to undergraduate major Daniel Turner, the 2010 C. Earle Smith, Jr. Award winner. Posted 05/15/10.

Our award winning graduate students this year include Daniel LaDu who won the 2010 Bob Work Award and Katy Groves who won the 2010 Richard A. Krause Award for outstanding graduate scholarship. Posted 05/15/10.

Doctoral student Becky Read has been elected as Student Representative to the board of the Society for Medical Anthropology. Becky is in her second year in our program. Her work focuses on stress, religious devotion, and transnational migration. Posted 06/21/10.

Graduating M.A. student Dan Mullins has been awarded a prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in the cognitive science of religion at Oxford. More info on his award is available in the July edition of the College of Arts & Sciences Desktop News. Posted 07/7/10.

Rachel Briggs has posted a photo album from the Graveline Mound Project in Mississippi, which has involved several of our grads and undergrads.  The album can be seen at Picasa. Posted 07/13/10.

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