Department of Anthropology
About the Department
Contact Information
Department of Anthropology
University of Rochester
440 Lattimore Hall
Rochester, NY 14627
Phone: (585) 275-8614
Fax: (585) 273-5331
Department Chair
Robert J. Foster
445 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8741
Email: Robert.Foster@rochester.edu
Department Overview
Anthropology is the comparative study of humanity. At its broadest, it seeks to understand the origin and diversification of human adaptations to the natural and social environment. Thus physical anthropologists study the evolution of human anatomy and archeologists study the artifacts left behind by human manipulation of the natural world. But the most complex and diverse products of human activity are the languages, social relations, and cultural meanings humans have developed. It is these invisible artifacts that linguistic, cultural, and social anthropologists study. The Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester specializes in this aspect of humanity: the comparative study of contemporary human cultures and societies.
Department Web Site
http://www.rochester.edu/College/ANT/
Department Faculty
Anthony T. Carter, PhD (Cambridge) Professor of Anthropology
Robert J. Foster, PhD (Chicago) Professor of Anthropology and of Visual and Cultural Studies; Chair of the Department
Thomas P. Gibson, PhD (London School of Economics) Professor of Anthropology
Ayala Emmett, PhD (Rochester) Associate Professor of Anthropology
Signithia Fordham, PhD (American University) Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ernestine McHugh Piskáčková, PhD (University of California, San Diego) Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
Eleana J. Kim, PhD (NYU) Assistant Professor of Anthropology
John Osburg, PhD (Chicago) Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Daniel Reichman, PhD (Cornell) Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Edward E. Calnek, PhD (Chicago) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Grace Harris, PhD (Cambridge) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Religion
Rene Millon, PhD (Columbia) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Walter Hinchman Sangree, PhD (Chicago) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
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