For More Information on the Department of Anthropology please email us at anthroinfo@gwm.sc.edu.
The faculty of the Department of Anthropology take pride in offering a four-field program in anthropology with research and teaching in cultural anthropology, prehistoric and historical archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological/biocultural anthropology.
A central focus of the Department of Anthropology, and its developing Ph.D. program, is on a broad interpretation of diasporic studies. We encourage intellectual collaboration across the subfields of our discipline on the topic of diasporic studies. We also have a strong emphasis on community-academic research collaboration, and several faculty members and graduate students are engaged in long-term community research partnerships. A majority of our faculty are either developing or have developed research programs that link translocal communities and communities in the U.S.
Our faculty have geographical specialization in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Asia and Europe. In addition to a broad focus on diasporic studies, their topical interests include medical anthropology, transcultural identities and processes, political economic anthropology, anthropology of place, visual anthropology, ethnobotany, gender, migration studies, and human/environment interactions. Every faculty member in the Department of Anthropology also participates in at least one interdisciplinary program. There are vibrant interdisciplinary conversations on this campus, and these provide many excellent opportunities for student participation.
Crosscutting topical and regional faculty interests are shared theoretical interests in inequality, globalization, gender, ethnicity, race/racialization, and class. The Department of Anthropology offers programs of study leading to baccalaureate, masters of arts, and doctoral degrees. Currently we have over 90 undergraduate majors and our masters and doctoral programs have more than 20 students enrolled.
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Department of Anthropology
Hamilton College, Room 317
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
777-6500
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