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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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.
Recipient of the 2024 Sally Weaver Award
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Kasiah Ruddell is the recipient of this year's Sally Weaver Award.
MA student Awarded PhD Position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Congratulations to Aparajita Bhattacharya (MA in Public Issues Anthropology, 2024) for securing a PhD position in the Computational Pathogenomics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute!