Anthropology
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Introduction
With a diversified faculty, the Purdue graduate program offers opportunities for courses and research in all four subfields of anthropology. Faculty specializations include the anthropology of the environment, identity, religion, semiotics, Women’s studies, gender and sexuality, popular culture, kinship, economic anthropology, African American Studies, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, South America, the Nile Valley and Central Asia, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, medical anthropology, human health and aging, women's health, reproductive ecology, nutrition, human evolution, conservation and primate and hominin diet and ecology, and cultural and applied anthropology in several regions of the world. The courses taken during the first two years develop a four-field foundation for subsequent specialized research. Our program emphasizes personalized intensive instruction and interaction with graduate student peers.
Faculty research interests include Jewish communities in Denmark; Saami pastoralists; rural communities in West Sumatra, Indonesia; lowland gorilla social organization and ecology in the Central African Republic; health in indigenous populations in the Indian Himalayas; health of older adults in the United States; settlement archaeology in Mexico; cross-cultural research; craft production, household archaeology, and provenance analysis in the Andes; comparative youth cultures and psychoactive substance use. Graduate student research has been undertaken in India, Mexico, Croatia, Italy, Bangladesh, Brazil, Morrocco, Appalachia, and Northwest Indiana.
For more information, please contact the Graduate Committee secretary, Talin Lindsay, at (765) 496-7428 or tlindsay@purdue.edu
