From prehistoric humanity all the way to contemporary cultural diversity, anthropologists engage with a wide range of issues and phenomena that affect individual and public life.
Waterloo's anthropology research and teaching expertise covers three major sub-fields of the discipline: sociocultural anthropology, archaeological anthropology, and biological anthropology.
Events
Brown Bag Series: Protest, Crisis, and Media Freedom in Serbia
Join us for a talk by Emma Brandt to learn about media freedom in Serbia and how growing political dissatisfaction is reshaping public discourse.
Book Talk: Violent Intimacies - The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World by Asli Zengin
Join us for a talk by Asli Zengin on her award-winning book.
This event is co-hosted by the Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics cluster and the Conflict and Security cluster at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Please RSVP here.
News
Recipient of the 2024 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Undergraduate Paper Award
Congratulations to Bel Cairns, winner of the 2024 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Undergraduate Paper Award in the Course Paper category for their Anth 221/GSJ 221 paper: "Cis is a Slur": Twitter Takes on Performative Language Ideology
Convocation feature: Aparajita Bhattacharya
Public Issues Anthropology graduate found meaning in interdisciplinarity scholarship to expand her research interests and forge an exciting future
Latest Franklin Expedition discovery makes international headlines
Doug Stenton, Robert Park and team match living descendant's DNA to remains from ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition - and the media can't stop writing about it.