Department of Anthropology, UMN

08/28/2026

Sign up for fall courses with the Department of Anthropology! Registration open now!

08/25/2026

Yun Feng will be defending their dissertation on Thursday, September 3rd, at 10am CST! Join us in Blegen 120, or via Zoom, to hear about Producing Rural E-commerce: Platform Capitalism and Techno-social Imaginaries of Rural China's Digital Futures. You can contact the Department of Anthropology at [email protected] for more information by Wednesday, September 2nd, at noon.

08/24/2026

Congratulations and thank you to Dr. Martha Tappen for your 30 years at the UMN!

After over 30 years of mentorship and research, biological anthropologist Martha Tappen enters retirement — electric guitar in hand.

08/17/2026

There is still room in Professor Peter Wells's Archaeology of the British Isles course this fall! Held on Wednesdays from 2:30pm-5pm! Learn more at https://schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026Fall/ANTH/5442

08/10/2026

There is still room in Professor Aisha Ghani's Religion and Culture course this fall! Held on Tuesdays from 4pm-6:30pm! Learn more at https://schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026Fall/ANTH/4049

08/03/2026

There is still room in Professor David Valentine's Talking Evidence course this fall! Held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:45am-11am! Learn more at https://schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026Fall/ANTH/4022