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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Pamela Geller

Faculty Highlight

Dr. Pamela Geller has just published Becoming Object: the Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection with University Press of Florida, a biohistoric investigation of a controversial museum collection.

Undergrad Highlight

Anthropology major Hannah Bethel will present “Unmasking COVID-19 in Haiti: Exploring the Intersection of Funding, Politics, Trust, and Resource Allocation” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

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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