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If you are excited by the idea of rummaging for million-year-old fossils; talking to people about food, television, and health care; or finding out when people built the first cities of Europe or migrated to the Caribbean, you will find a home in the Department of Anthropology.
Using a four-field approach—sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology—the department combines the sciences with the humanities to understand the biological, social, and cultural factors contributing to the commonalities and differences of human behavior, past and present.
Anthropology is the study of people, how we evolved physically and differ cross-culturally, and how we live and interact with one another. Anthropology combines the social and natural sciences in unique ways to study humanity in the broadest sense. Anthropologists study:
Undergraduate majors in our department have ongoing opportunities to pursue hands-on research in the lab and in the field alongside full-time faculty members, here and abroad. Graduates are equipped to go on to many different endeavors, especially those benefitting from an appreciation of diversity and the human experience, the ability to do independent research and work in groups, and capability of bridging the gap between social and biological dimensions that define our lives.
Our courses present the richness in human variation and cultural diversity, and offer the anthropological perspective as a way of thinking, a way of problem solving, and as a model for future learning.
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An important and vital part of the Anthropology Department is our highly qualified faculty.
Kelly M. Britt, Ph.D., RPA focuses on community-based historical and contemporary archaeology of ...
Jillian Cavanaugh grew up in Colorado and lived in Italy and Indonesia for extended stretches, wh...
Stephen Chester is a biological anthropologist and paleontologist who studies the evolution of pr...
Shahrina Chowdhury is a biological anthropologist who studies the behavioral ecology of nonhuman ...
Meghan Ference is assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College. She teaches undergradu...
Katherine (Katie Rose) Hejtmanek is a cultural and psychological anthropologist. She has a joint ...
Rhea Rahman is assistant professor of anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on transnatio...
Naomi Schiller is associate professor of anthropology. Schiller’s research and teaching foc...
Advocacy and Archaeology: Present Thoughts—New Books by BC Faculty Series
Anthropology Professor takes first place in age, weight class at 2024 USA Weightlifting Masters National Championships.
Professor of anthropology will serve in role through November 2025 then serve as president for another two-year term.
A professor and a student from Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center have pruned a branch off the primate tree.
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