Department of Anthropology

 

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Above:  Carrie Kissell and Ken Spencer give a tour of the Evans-Deschler Site on the IUPUI campus.

Welcome to the IUPUI Department of Anthropology web page. Anthropology is a broadly based discipline that focuses on a vast range of aspects of human culture and biology. We are interested in many different aspects of the human experience across time and space: our faculty research interests include museum studies, human osteology, historical archaeology, and Greek, South Pacific, and Cape Verdean cultures. The IUPUI Anthropology Department focuses on training student to apply anthropological insight to non-academic settings. This means our graduates become practicing anthropologists in such diverse settings as hospitals, state and federal agencies, zoos, museums, archaeological contracting firms, and almost any context in which an understanding of human culture is essential. Many of our students acquire graduate degrees and have been admitted to some of the most competitive graduate programs in the country.

Anthropology majors have many opportunities to develop their own research. We have a physical anthropology lab and skeletal comparative collection as well as an archaeology lab for students whose interests are in either physical anthropology or archeology. We also conduct an ethnographic field school in Greece and archaeology field schools here in Indianapolis and in Mexico.  Indianapolis is home to many community organizations representing many different constituencies and many of our students conduct research and work in one of these local organizations.

Left:  The 2007 Archaeology Field School with Dr. Watson at Casa Grandes.  Click on the Summer Report  (PDF) for more on the Field School.

 

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you have about the IUPUI Department of Anthropology, and you are certainly welcome to visit us anytime.

 

Above:  Museum Studies students confer during the first annual "Ethics Bowl" as part of their Introduction to Museum Studies class.
RIght:  Dr. Gibau and A104 students engaged in the cross-cultural, co-curricular activity of ethnic restaurant dining.
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Last update March 11, 2008