Banner photo: Ships on the Pasur River, Mongla Port, Bangladesh. Photo by Jason Cons.
About the Department
We offer a broad program of research, teaching, and community engagement that builds upon the historical strengths of archaeology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology and sociocultural anthropology in order to understand and address the challenges of a culturally diverse, increasingly globalized, and rapidly-changing world.
Our aim is to research and teach toward a better understanding of the world; a world in which the articulation of local cultural forms and identities with global processes is increasingly complicated and consequential; one in which the relationships among all types of social groups, from individuals to governments to multi-national corporations, are evolving and taking new forms; one in which race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and other aspects of cultural identity are forever shifting in form and significance; one in which the relationship of human beings to both the natural and constructed environment is at an increasingly critical stage.
Field Notes: Shehzad Arifeen
A photo essay by Shehzad Arifeen centered around the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh. This is part of a recurring series highlighting the anthropological fieldwork conducted by our graduate students.
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Office hours: Q&A with Jason Cons
A conversation with Dr. Cons about his new book, Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier. This is part of a recurring series highlighting the reserach of our faculty.
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Grad Student Spotlight: Gwendolyn Jones
"If you asked me 25 years ago what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d tell you an archaeologist. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania...and nothing was more exciting to me than coming across old foundations in the woods while on a hike with my family. I chose to study coal mining for much the same reason. My great-grandfather, Julius, was a coal miner and having grown up in near-poverty I have always been interested in class, inequality, and labor. So, when I decided to pursue historical archaeology, I knew I wanted to study underrepresented people’s history in a household-context, and my own poor immigrant ancestors were the perfect focus."
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Sarah Eleazar
Eleazar is a doctoral student in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Find an Artifact?
Did you find an artifact? A shard in your yard? Our recommendation is to leave these items where you find them but if you are looking for resources to help identify a found object, click here.
Land Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what now is called North America. Moreover, we would like to acknowledge the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas. Learn more here.
Contact Us
Anthropology
The University of Texas at Austin
WCP 4.102, Mailcode C3200
Austin, Texas 78712
Kamran Asdar Ali
asdar@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-4206