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 (physical) 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.
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!
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Dolson on the publication of his new book!
Street Youth in Canada: An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice by Adjunct Faculty Member Dr. Mark Dolson is an ethnography of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada.