Welcome to the UW Department of Anthropology
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New Track in Anthropology
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)
This brand new program provides undergraduate and graduate training, including a concurrent MPH/PHD track, in the anthropology of human health and well-being in the 21st century.
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Graduation 2008 Photos
This year's graduation ceremony took place in Kane Hall on June 13. To see photos, click on the link below
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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington was launched in the 1920s by Leslie Spier and
Melville Jacobs. Both were students of Franz Boas, as was Erna Gunther who took the reins in 1929 and under whose
lively leadership the department grew for a quarter of a century.
Today, we are a large, and still lively, department that includes 35 faculty members and houses three academic subdisciplines into which our undergraduate and graduate programs are apportioned: archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. In addition we offer a concurrent MPH/PhD program, and specializations in environmental anthropology and medical anthropology and global health.
While pursuing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, we all work toward a common goal,
namely to document and understand our many interconnected ways of being human in a world now inhabited by six
billion people speaking five thousand languages.
For a brief summary of our program view the Anthropology Department Fact Sheet.
At the heart of anthropology research, theory and practice lies a shared appreciation of and commitment to understanding all aspects of human difference. View the Anthropology Department Diversity Mission Statement.
Anthropology makes a world of difference.
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