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.
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Seçil Daǧtaș receives Arts Award for Excellence in Research
Congratulations to Seçil Daǧtaș on receiving a 2025 Arts Award for Excellence in Service
SSHRC CGS-M Fellowship Recipients
Congratulations to Hannah Clark and Cassie Sellers for winning Canada Graduate Scholarship -Master's (CGS-M) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)!
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