Sociocultural Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona has a distinguished reputation as one of the leading programs in the country, with a graduate program consistently ranked among the nation’s top five.
Sociocultural anthropology at the University of Arizona remains at the forefront of recent developments in the discipline while maintaining established theoretical and research strengths, and a commitment to fieldwork.
The Department’s large number of faculty are engaged in an exceptionally wide range of work, which currently includes:
- Political Ecology
- Medical Anthropology
- Globalization, Post-colonialism and Modernity
- Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
- Human Rights
- Development
- Nationalism and Ethnicity
- Gender and Sexuality
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Discourse and Practice
- Political Economy
- History and Social Memory
- Religion
- Social Movements
- Violence
- Robustness, Resilience, and Networks
- Migration and Trans-Nationalism
- Language and Culture
- Race
- Applied Anthropology
- Urbanism
- Creativity and Art
- Antiquity
- Visual Anthropology
- Anthropology of the Body
- Subjectivity
- Emotion, Memory, Biography, and Cognition
- Agent-Based Modeling
- Performance Theory
- Economic Anthropology
- Public Policy
Geographic regions represented by faculty specializations include the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe, the Maghreb, and the Caribbean. The Department has throughout its history maintained a special relationship to the peoples and histories of the Southwest and the US-Mexico border region.
Much work done by faculty members also reaches across disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries, and is done in collaboration with faculty in departments as diverse as earth sciences, religious studies, and the medical school. Alongside the broad range of academic departments at a major research university, students find a wide array of research centers and training opportunities on the U of A campus, such as:
Sociocultural Faculty
- Alonso, Ana Maria
- Baro, Mamadou A.
- Braitberg, Victor
- Briggs, Laura J.
- Colombi, Benedict J.
- De Vet, Therese A.
- Finan, Timothy J.
- Gilliland, Mary Kay
- Green, Linda B.
- Greenberg, James B.
- Griffin-Pierce, Trudy A.
- Hedlund, Ann Lane
- Henderson, Richard N.
- Hudson, Leila
- Kennedy, Elizabeth J.
- Lansing, J. Stephen
- McGuire, Thomas R.
- Mendoza-Denton, Norma C.
- Nichter, Mark
- Nichter, Mimi
- Parezo, Nancy J.
- Park, Thomas K.
- Ren, Hai
- Schlegel, Alice E.
- Sekaquaptewa, Emory
- Shaw, Susan J.
- Sheridan, Thomas E.
- Silverstein, Brian
- Stoffle, Richard W.
- Thompson, Richard A.
- Weaver, Thomas
- Woodson, Drexel G.
- Woronov, Terry
- Wright, Anne L.
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