University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Anthropology
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Program University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Anthropology Name
The Department offers four field training, with programs in sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and cultural heritage management. In social/cultural anthropology, research and teaching are focused on the cultural construction of politics and law, history, General economy, medicine, gender, art and consumption; psychological anth; visual anthropology, urban anthropology, applied anthropology. Linguistics Description research focuses on sociocultural linguistics, rhetorical practices, performance studies, language and power, language and gender. Regional / Special specialization includes Europe, Latin America, Melanesia, North America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, Central Asia. Topical areas in Programs archaeology and biological anthropology include historical archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, human evolution, paleoanthropology, and behavioral biology. Archaeology and primate skeletal emphasize taphonomy, archaeobiology, electronic imaging and lithic analysis. Many graduate students work with faculty in other departments in the field of paleoecology.
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City Minneapolis
Address 395 Hubert H Humphrey Ctr Line 1
Address 301 19th Ave South Line 2
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Website http://cla.umn.edu/anthropology Program Details
Degrees Offered Anthropology PhD, MA, BA major
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Highest Degree Offered PhD
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Anthropology Archaeology Biological Anthropology BA/BS Field Areas Cultural Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology
Students must complete at least 120 credits to graduate, including 35-44 credits within the Anthropology major. Students who major in the field are expected to take courses in the four sub-fields of anthropology. Students planning a professional career in anthropology general specialize in one of the sub-fields: biological anthropology (the evolutionary history of human and nonhuman primates), archaeology (the study of prehistoric and historic societies through their material culture), sociocultural anthropology (the study of the behavior of BA/ BS Requirements recent people in settings that range from unindustrialized societies to modern urban centers), and linguistic anthropology (the comparative study of languages and communication). Students complete required preparatory classes, at least 3 foundation courses among the four sub-fields, and five or more upper-division training elective courses. All majors complete a senior capstone, which consists of either a year-long capstone project or an extra upper-division course with a related capstone project attached to that course.
MA/ MS Requirements Plan B: 33 credits, oral examination
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Anthropology Archaeology Biological Anthropology PhD Field Areas Cultural Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology
Approximately 36 credits (includes any MA work), and 24 thesis credits, written Phd Requirements and oral examinations, fieldwork preferred but not required for dissertation
Departmental Labs, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, Ames Library for South Asia, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Institute for Global Studies, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, Museum Studies, Research Facilities Communication Studies, Medical Social Science, Ethnomusicology. A wide array of supporting programs in agriculture, child development, cognitive science, environmental studies, health sciences, paleoecology, and psychology
Graduate: Teaching assistantships, up to 50% time per 9 months. Research assistantships. ICGC fellowships. Departmental Graduate Fellowships. Support Opportunities University of Minnesota fellowships, including Diversity of Views and Experience (DOVE) Fellowships, IDF, DDF, and Hella Mears. Current and former students have also been successful at obtaining Leakey and NSF funding.
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PHD Degrees Granted To Males 1
PHD Degrees Granted To Females 3
Percentage OF FULL-TIME GRAD STUDENTS receiving funding 90
Number of Female Undergrad Students 114
Number of Male Undergrad Students 46
BA/BS DEGREES GRANTED TO FEMALES 37
AA/AS DEGREES GRANTED TO FEMALES 0 2016-17 AA/AS Degrees Granted To Males 0
MA/MS Degrees Granted To Females 2
MA/MS Degrees Granted To Males 1
Number of Male Grad Students 18
Number of Female Grad Students 32
Number of New Grad Students 5
BA/BS Degrees Granted To Males 16
PHD Degrees Granted To Males 3
PHD Degrees Granted To Females 2
Percentage OF FULL-TIME GRAD STUDENTS receiving funding 93
Number of Female Undergrad Students 117
Number of Male Undergrad Students 44
BA/BS DEGREES GRANTED TO FEMALES 58 2015-16 MA/MS Degrees Granted To Females 5
MA/MS Degrees Granted To Males 0
Number of Male Grad Students 21
Number of Female Grad Students 38
Number of New Grad Students 9
BA/BS Degrees Granted To Males 24 Program Contacts
Geographic Areas of Geographic Area(s) of Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Expertise Expertise International
Christina [email protected] Wiencke
Sociocultural anthropology, science Europe / Karen-Sue and technology (genetics, [email protected] Europe, US Eurasia,Western Taussig biotechnologies) medical Hemisphere anthropology, power, knowledge, work
Matthew [email protected] Collections management Edling
East Asia and the Biopolitics, covereignty, cyberculture, Pacific,South Hoon Song [email protected] capitalism, modernity, critical theory US, South Korea Korea,Western and psychoanalysis Hemisphere
Political ecology, colonialism, practice Steve theory, subjectivity, religion, Western [email protected] Mesoamerica, Andes Kosiba preshistoric and early modern Andes Hemisphere and Mesoamerica
Anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and Aisha Ghani [email protected] environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory, Islam and Muslim communities in the U.S.
Primate behavior and ecology, Michael chimpanzees, territorial behavior, [email protected] Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Wilson aggression, communication, conservation
Cultural anthropology, medical Jean anthropology, science studies, East Asia and the [email protected] South Asia Langford postcolonial theory, politics of Pacific representation
Social and cultural theory, anthropology Stuart Europe / [email protected] of modernity, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union McLean Eurasia,Ireland anthropology of landscape
Cultural/linguistic anthropology, gender David Western [email protected] and sexuality, embodiment, Urban US, the future Valentine Hemisphere transgenderism
Paleoanthropology, primate and Kieran [email protected] human evolution, ontogeny, geometric East Africa, Europe Sub-Saharan Africa McNulty morphometrics, evolutionary theory
colonialism/imperialims, LGBTQI studies, political anthropology, social movements, human rights, Western Erin Durban [email protected] transnational feminisms, critical theory Haiti/Caribbean Hemisphere (queer, trans*, feminist, black, decolonial, postcolonial, Marxist), transnational American studies
Culture contact, economic behavior, Prehistoric and medieval Peter Wells [email protected] Europe / Eurasia signs, symbols, meanings Europe
Lower and Middle Paleolithic archaeology and systematics, history Gilliane [email protected] of Paleolithic research, lithic typology, Western Europe Europe / Eurasia Monnier cognitive basis of technology, lithic microwear analysis
Social anthropology, cultural studies of late capitalism, anthropology of Wall Street, finance, and the stock market, globalization and global financial Western Karen Ho [email protected] US restructuring, anthropology of work, Hemisphere urban anthropology, political economy, comparative race/ethnicity, Asian American studies Geographic Areas of Geographic Area(s) of Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Expertise Expertise International
Katherine Archaeological and historic Western [email protected] North America Hayes anthropology, identity Hemisphere
Paleolithic archaeology, paleoanthropology, prehistoric Gilbert [email protected] technology, Old World Prehistory, Europe Europe / Eurasia Tostevin material-culture studies, culture-contact studies
political-legal anthropology, social East Asia and the Serra theory, human rights, political violence, Pacific,Middle East [email protected] Turkey, Middle East Hakyemez "war on terror", courtroom ethnography, and North Kurdish freedom movement Africa,Turkey
Social/cultural anthropology, politics of culture in India (gender, caste, Gloria India,South and [email protected] colonialism) and in Appalachia (music India Raheja Central Asia and industrial capitalism in the early 20th century)
Cultural, political-legal and East Asia and the David Lipset [email protected] Melanesia/Pacific psychological anthropology, gender Pacific
Linguistic anthropology, East Asia and the sociolinguistics, discourse, ethnicity, Middle East, South Asia, North Pacific,Japan,Middle William gender, peasant and tribal societies, [email protected] America, contemporary US, East and North Beeman performance traditions, mass media, Japan, Germany Africa,Western computers and society, economic Hemisphere systems, theater, music
Human evolution, taphonomy and Martha [email protected] zooarchaeology, paleoenvironments, Tappen Early Stone Age
Zobeida [email protected] Bonilla
Mark Pedelty [email protected]
Sima [email protected] Gender, women and sexuality studies Shakhsari
Medieval music theory, iconography, Gabriela [email protected] ethnographies of Byzantine and Balkan Currie and Ottoman musical traditions
North Indian classical vocal music, hand gesture, the harmonium, Matt Rahaim [email protected] comparative vocal technique, music history
Human biology of saliva and dental Joel Rudney [email protected] plaque, dental anthropology, Nubia Sub-Saharan Africa paleopathology, epidemiology
East Asia and the Ellen Biomedical anthropology, [email protected] Melanesia, US Pacific,Western Demerath growth/development, obesity Hemisphere
How environment, age, socioeconomic status and food insecurity influence Chery Smith [email protected] nutritional status, dietary behavior, health of selected populations
David Political economy, health, informal [email protected] Karjanen economies, migration
Ethnographic studies of New York and Scott Currie [email protected] Berlin avant-garde jazz practices, master musicians in Morocco
Jean O'Brien [email protected] History
Amy Sheldon [email protected] Communication Studies
Margaret Cultural anthropology, performance East Asia and the [email protected] Polynesia Werry studies, historical ethnography Pacific
Joanne Cultural and visual anthropology, [email protected] Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Eicher gender
East Asia and the Thomas Media, communications, discourse, [email protected] Russia, Soviet Union, Europe Pacific,Europe / Wolfe history Eurasia,Russia Geographic Areas of Geographic Area(s) of Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Expertise Expertise International
Vicente Diaz [email protected] American Indian studies
Polly [email protected] Szatrowski
Riv-Ellen Cultural, gender and ethnicity, [email protected] Prell American Jewish culture
Anthropological linguistics, Native John Nichols [email protected] American languages, Algonquian
American Indian history, Brenda Child [email protected] multiculturalism, native culture
David Fox [email protected] Geology, geophysics
Aren [email protected] Gender, women and sexuality studies Azaizura
Anthropology of migration, gender, M work, consumption, transnationalism, Western [email protected] Latin America Castellanos indigenous cultures in the Americas, Hemisphere Latino studies
Karen [email protected] Chicano and Latino studies Davalos
Joshua Earth sciences, geology and [email protected] Feinberg geophysics
Field methods, languages of the world, Nancy language contact, bilingualism, [email protected] Stenson language endangerment/revitalization, Irish and Celtic languages
Filipino culture, seafaring, Kale Fajardo [email protected] masculinities, globalization
Cindy Garcia [email protected] Anthropology of performance
Lisa Horticulture, community-based [email protected] Philander conservation, ethnomedicine
East Asia and the Peter [email protected] Educational anthropology, class culture US, Papua New Guinea Pacific,Western Demerath Hemisphere
Carol Klee [email protected] Spanish, Portuguese
Vinay [email protected] Geography Gidwani
Genevieve [email protected] English language and literature Escure
Greta Economic and medical anthropology, Western Friedemann- [email protected] health services research, international Latin America Hemisphere Sanchez development, gender
Eric Bangs [email protected]
Anthropology of religion, Afro-Cuban Diana Dean [email protected] religions, race and ethnicity in US, kinship, gender, social justice
Archaeology, material culture, North Ed Fleming [email protected] America
East Asia and the Peter Harle [email protected] Folklore, material culture, religion Tibet, US Pacific,Western Hemisphere
Lois [email protected] Yellowthunder
Jennifer [email protected] Museum studies, North America Stampe
European modernity, immigration, engineering and information Leonore Europe / [email protected] technology, computing, science and Western Europe, Germany Phillips Eurasia,Germany technology studies, imagination, nationalism and globalization Geographic Areas of Geographic Area(s) of Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Expertise Expertise International
Small mammal taphonomy, animal Aaron [email protected] utilization by Stone Age humans, Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Armstrong prehistoric humans
Kristen [email protected] Jenkins
European archaeology, ritual and Katherine religion, identity, archaeology of natural Erdman places
Steven [email protected] Medical anthropology, public policy Foldes
Theories of change, development Middle America, North Western Frank Miller [email protected] strategies, applied anthropology policy America Hemisphere analysis, research methods
Timothy Semantic anthropology, linguistic Middle America, North Western [email protected] Dunnigan acculturation America Hemisphere
Psychological anthropology, symbolic Western John Ingham [email protected] Middle America anthropology, American culture Hemisphere
Cultural, ecological and natural Luther [email protected] resources anthropology, social North America, East Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Gerlach organization, social movements
Stephen Social, structural, economic Western [email protected] Latin America Gudeman anthropology Hemisphere
Maria Nieves- [email protected] Colón