Prof. Makihara and Rodríguez publish book with Berghahn Press
September 2025
Prof. Makihara and Rodríguez recently published their new book “Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela” with Berghahn Press. They present an ethnographic and historical perspective on how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expand over sociohistorical changes and struggles in the transformation of Chilean democracy and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
Welcome back to the Fall 2025 semester
September 2025
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Prof. Plummer and team publish on earliest raw material transport in Oldowan tool production
September 2025
Prof. Thomas Plummer and a team of researchers working on the Homa Peninsula publish on the earliest evidence of raw material transport used in the production of Oldowan tools dating back nearly 3 million years. The article, led by Dr. Emma Finestone (Cleveland Museum of Natural History) can be found here: Science Advances and is summarized in AP News, ScienceNews, and Popular Science.
Karen Strassler receives a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
April 16, 2025
Professor Karen Strassler is a 2025 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellows are selected based on their existing body of research and exceptional research promise as well as their devotion to work that responds to timely themes and issues.
Thomas Plummer receives QC Research Award
April 1, 2025
Professor Thomas Plummer recently received the 2025 Queens College School of Social Sciences Research Award for his work documenting the earliest tool use by hominins (~3 million years ago).
Thomas Plummer's research featured on CBS Saturday morning
Jan 6, 2025
Research by Professor Thomas Plummer and his team was recently featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Professor Plummer’s work demonstrates compelling evidence for the earliest tool use by our hominin ancestors 3 million years ago on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya, findings that were also recently published in Science. This work has also been featured in Nature and PBS News.
Welcome back to the Fall 2024 semester
August 28th, 2024
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Thomas Plummer receives NSF Award
August 21st, 2024
Thomas Plummer receives NSF Award for his ongoing research project “Collaborative Research: Early Emergence of Tool Use”. The goal of this collaborative project is to understand the significance of tool technology in the human lineage by investigating a site that dates between approximately 3 and 2.6 million years ago. Findings from this research promise to provide a more comprehensive understanding of early hominin behavior at the dawn of stone tool technology.
Explore our specialized minors
August 16th, 2024
In addition to an Anthropology major and minor, students may sign up for specialized minors including Human Ecology, Power Inequality, Cultural Heritage, and Health in Culture. For more information on our majors and minors, click here.
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General | Human Ecology | Power and Inequality | Cultural Heritage and Memory | Health and Culture