Department of Anthropology

Welcome to the Department of Anthropology

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.

For information on the 2012 IU/IUPUI Joint Field School in Archaeology at Angel Mounds, please click on the link to the following website: http://www.angelmounds.info.

To see photos of our Summer Field School for 2010 please check out the following link: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/anthropology/index.php/news/summer_field_school_2010

Catch up on  Anthropology faculty and students have been doing at the Anthropology Department News page, including:

• Larry Zimmerman received the inaugural Peter Ucko Memorial Award at the 2008 World Archaeological Congress in Ireland
• Chris Glidden directed the archaeology field school in Sheridan, Indiana
• Ian McIntosh hosted the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) conference in Belgium
• Gina Gibau‘s paper "Cape Verdean Diasporic Identity Formation" was published in Transnational Archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora
• Liz Kryder-Reid presented a paper at the conference "Archaeologies of the Everyday" in Sheffield, England
• Sue Hyatt‘s Inside/Out class was taught for the second year, with 24 students meeting at the Indiana Women’s Prison
• Paul Mullins’ book Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut was published.

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.