Welcome to the Department of Anthropology at UAB!

Anthropology is a social science discipline committed to the comparative and historical study of humankind. It is the broadest in scope and the most methodologically diverse of the social sciences. No human group or culture, no matter where or when it existed, is beyond anthropological consideration. Likewise, the discipline exempts no aspect of the human condition from potential inquiry and analysis.

Our mission is to advance knowledge of anthropology through scientific and humanistic research, high quality teaching, professional publications, and community outreach. The faculty conducts research, teaches, and trains in each of the four subfields of anthropology: cultural, linguistics, archaeology, and biological (physical). Our graduate and undergraduate students learn, at the appropriate level, the fundamentals of the four subfields, how they interact with one another, and how they relate to other academic disciplines.

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Job openings in the Department:

We are expanding our adjunct pool, please contact the Chair for details or download the link ANTHRO_Adjunct_pool.pdf

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Careers in Anthropology

What can I do with a degree in Anthropology?

General Anthro Career Opportunities List

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News

Check out our recent and past outreach activities at the Aldridge Botanical Gardens....

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We are excited to announce a New Minor in Peace, Justice, and Ecology! Formerly this was the Environmental Studies Minor.

Directors: Loretta Cormier and Sharyn Jones (Anthropology)

The Peace, Justice, and Ecology minor, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, is an interdisciplinary program for students seeking a broad learning experience in human-ecological interactions, bio-cultural diversity, and strategies to foster social justice, peace, and environmental sustainability from  a holistic  perspective.  The peace, justice, and environmental studies minor  offers students the opportunity to examine themes of ecological adaptation and sustainability as well as environmental health and human rights in local, cross-cultural, and global contexts, and to apply scientific, philosophical, and ethical reasoning to real-world problems.
 
UAB Alumna, Melissa King: Anthropology and Humanism
Melissa King is a Doctoral Candidate of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside, and serves as Adjunct Faculty of Anthropology at San Bernardino Valley College and Chaffey College. She is currently writing a dissertation that explores Armenian American politics of memory and survivorship through a focus on activism and expression, especially among youth. Armenian American experiences and subjectivities have been underrepresented in the discipline of anthropology. Further, Armenian Americans have been called “demographic ghosts” whose distinctions are imperceptible in a variety of legal, political domains. Yet, the Armenian American community in the Los Angeles area has been called the fiercest, the most vocal perhaps of the diaspora, in the “struggle for justice” through which they demand recognition of genocide. From art galleries and coffee shops to street protests and a hunger strike, Melissa’s research provides an ethnographic perspective that speaks to ethical and theoretical questions of visibility, power, and resilience. In 2011, Melissa was honored to participate in a NEH Summer Institute at Columbia University, rethinking the ways that “America Engages Eurasia.” She recently published two poems in Anthropology and Humanism.
 
Grad Studies at UAB
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