Welcome to the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University!
We focus on the study of humanity across time and space. Undergraduate and graduate education is organized on three principles:
(1) an understanding of human diversity requires the study of biological, archaeological, social/cultural, and linguistic anthropology;
(2) the study of humanity requires qualitative and quantitative research methods;
(3) human problems must be examined within biological, historical, environmental, political-economic, and socio-cultural contexts.
The faculty of the department is critically engaged in scientific and humanistic research, academic and applied scholarship, student-centered instruction, and public outreach.
Undergraduate and graduate students are trained in anthropological theories and research strategies. Topical foci include human evolution, human variation, complex societies, global transformations and local adaptations, ideology and power, migration, urban processes and populations, identity politics in multicultural societies, evolution and prevention of disease, and social reform.
Recent research by faculty has been conducted in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe.
In this Program we combine a holistic and comparative education with anthropological praxis: theoretically informed, politically responsible, and ethically sound applications of empirical data in professional fields that include medicine, education, the environment, forensics, and cultural resource management.