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
Book Talk- Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders
Join us for a talk by Emrah Yıldız on his book Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders. Please RSVP here.
The Impasse: Political Logistics in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Join Greg Beckett, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western University, for our Silver Medal Lecture on "The Impasse: Political Logistics in Port-au-Prince, Haiti"
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.