Next week (February 12th-15th) at various locations Archives on Screen (AoS) will bring rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to Minnesota! Please see mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri... for more information and to purchase tickets.

It is with sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Frank C. Miller, socio-cultural anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the UofM. Professor Miller's research focused on cultural changes in Mexico. We join the family in mourning the loss of Professor Miller.

Emily Briggs will begin a postdoc in the Department of Anthropology at Lakehead University analyzing archaeological bison samples from Ontario and Alberta to understand their diet, environment and movements. She will also participate in community engagement and mentorship #umnproud #umncla

February 12th-15th at various locations Archives on Screen (AoS) will bring rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to Minnesota! Please see mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri... for more information and to purchase tickets.

February 12th-15th at various locations Archives on Screen (AoS) will bring rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to Minnesota! Please see mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri... for more information and to purchase tickets.

Welcome back, students. We are so excited you are here!

February 12th-15th at various locations Archives on Screen (AoS) will bring brings rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to Minnesota! Please see mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri... for more information and to purchase tickets.

UMN Anthro PhD student Jaime Zolik and Prof. Maria Nieves Colón @mitopr.bsky.social were interviewed on Ep. 66 the @anthrobiology.bsky.social podcast about their aDNA research with community partners in Peru. Listen now: anthrobiology.com/episodes/ #umncla #umnproud

Happy New Year from the Department of Anthropology. What are your New Year's resolutions?

Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 5221 Anthropology of Material Culture! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 3301 Fundamentals of Anthropological Genetics! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3147 Digital Anth! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Graduate student Jaewon Byun's (Anthropology) co-authored Korean textbook, Disability: Leaving the Institutional Setting (장애, 시설을 나서다), has been selected for the 2025 Sejong Books Awards

Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3018/5018 Bioarcheology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3024/5024 Forensic Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

We’re excited to highlight our PhD Candidate Yun Feng’s new publication, Promoting Baokuan: Human-Machine “Gambling Games” between Villages and Algorithms, in the journal Ethnography (doi.org/10.1177/1466...)!

Wishing all our students good luck on finals! We know you will do great!

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Writing Intensive Education requirements? Check out Anth 4003W Contemporary Perspectives in Social Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3310 Human-Wildlife Interactions! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your writing-intensive requirement? Check out Anth 3242W Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of Non-Western Peoples in the Movies! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

Today Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.” at 7:30 pm Details: z.umn.edu/antheve

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Education requirement? Check out Anth 2006/3006 Humans & Aliens! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives and Historical Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3016/5016 African Archaeology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Anthropology PhD candidate Muhammad Osama Imran has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Condon Prize for his paper "“Through the Frayed Veil: Spectral Madness and Sufi Ethics in Pakistan".

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives, Writing Intensive, and/or Social Sciences Education requirements? We still have space in Anth 1003 Understanding Cultures! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your biological sciences liberal education requirement? There is still space in Anth 1001 Human Evolution! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your diversity and social justice, social sciences, and writing-intensive liberal education requirements? Check out Anth 3005W Language, Culture, and Power! More details schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take a new topics course focused on the queering of Europe? Check out Anth 3980! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026... #umncla #umnproud

Today Jason Read (University of Southern Maine) will be speaking about "Other Scenes: Bailbar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle Over Identity" at 3pm Details: z.umn.edu/OtherScenes

Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on December 9th at 7:30 pm about “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.” Details: z.umn.edu/antheve

Anthropology PhD Candidate, Berkant Caglar has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Association for Queer Anthropology's Kenneth Payne Prize for his paper, "The Woman Who Fell from the Window: Suicide, Moralization of Femicide and Trans Precarity."

Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...