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  • Social & Cultural Anthropology

    The Social and Cultural Anthropology faculty conduct research and offer courses in four broad intellectual clusters: Medical Anthropology, STS, Health and the Environment; Labor, Precarity, Politics; Mobility, Migration, and Citizenship; Language, Media, and Circulation.

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  • Biological Anthropology

    Biological Anthropology provides students with the background to study morphology, systematics, bioarchaeology, anatomy, paleopathology and evolution.

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  • Archaeology

    The Archaeology program emphasizes comparative study of the emergence and development of complex societies, from their initial foundations in hunter-gatherer behavior to their manifestation as states and empires.

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  • What makes us different is what makes us human

    The Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh covers a wide range of geographical and topical specialties in all four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, and anthropological linguistics). 

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Maria Lis Baiocchi Receives Sylvia Forman Prize
Pitt Undergrad Student Receives Honors Fellowship
Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) publish new book on Language with Bloomsbury Academic Press. Language and Culture in Dialogue (2019)
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