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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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
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.
Recipients of the 2023 Sally Weaver Award
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Aparajita Bhattacharya and Evengeline Strickland are the recipients of this year’s Sally Weaver Award.