Department of Anthropology | University of Miami

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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami aspires to teach students to appreciate the origins, implications, and challenges of all dimensions of human diversity. We seek to advance our understanding of humankind’s past, resent, and future and to equip students for research into myriad aspects of the human condition. In an interconnected and rapidly changing world, our students will graduate with the skills and cultural fluency critical for success in careers or graduate studies.
Anthropology is an interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to understand the human
experience. Through the study of human biology, culture, society, condition, and our primate
relatives, anthropologists use integrated and transdisciplinary approaches to develop an
understanding of human diversity in the past and present.

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Faculty Highlight

David Forrest was selected as an Engaged Faculty Fellow for 2025-2026. He will develop a community-engaged learning internship course for UM undergraduate students, in which students will be guided to develop critical perspectives on health, disease, medicine and health care with the goal of addressing real world problems faced by vulnerable and underserved populations.
Gabriela Sanchez Torres

Undergrad Highlight

Gabriela Sanchez Torres was awarded a Beyond the Book scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences as well as a grant from the Department of Anthropology to attend the Huari-Ancash Bio-Archaeological Research Project field school. Through this experience she learned archaeological methods and put that knowledge into practice by excavating a series of tombs in the mountains of Áncash, Peru.

Graduate Highlight

University of Miami graduate student Efrain Ocasio joined an international student dive expedition in Bulgaria this summer that uncovered the foundation of a centuries-old fortress wall buried by the shifting seas.

Alumni Highlight

Robin Morey is Collections Specialist at the future Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Latino, helping to build collections that will tell the stories of American Latinos in U.S. history and culture!
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