Anthropology Undergraduate Studies

Do these kinds of questions and courses interest you?

• ANTH-150 Anthropology of Life in the United States: Who speaks for America? Is United States a nation-state, an empire, and what difference does? Examine anthropological debates around civil rights, identity formation, racialization, and US community development.
• ANTH-334 Environmental Justice: How do social inequalities and political dynamics affect destruction of resources, siting of dangerous facilities, dumping of toxic wastes, and technological development? Case studies from North America, Latin America, Africa, the Arctic, Pacific, and Caribbean examine questions about history, social relations, power, connections among the world’s societies, and competing values.
• ANTH-365 Social Ecology of Food: What factors shape food production, access, and waste? Examine theory and ethnography at the intersections of food and ecology.
• ANTH 422 Neoliberation & Health (Anthropology of Global Health): Gain an understanding of the history of global health, the critiques of major international health agencies, and the political economy of social inequalities in context of contemporary issues.

Recent senior capstones include:

• The Biography of a Point: The Lifeways of Pre-Contact Indigenous Peoples in the Great Dismal Swamp
• Navigating Uncertainty: A Case Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Black Businesses in Dallas, Texas (2020-2022)
• Music, Class, and the Vietnam War: How did music affect societies’ perceptions of the Vietnam War and those who fought in it?
• Witch Talk: Neopagan Knowledge Circulation on TikTok
• Policing Is Propaganda:
  Social Media Representation of Community Policing in Washington, DC
• Archival Care: The Power of Generational Community Knowledge Building, A Case Study of the Rainbow History Project