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Anthropology

Category: Field Work

a group of Bigelgrant awardees stand together at an event

Department celebrates the 2024 Bigel Grant Awardees

October 7, 2024

a group of students stand on the sidewalk in front of a construction site. Students take notes on walking tour with University of Orange

Students Study Effects of Rapid Development in Orange, NJ

October 3, 2023

Anthropology Professor Katherine McCaffrey, far right, emphasizes the importance of listening and learning from communities that are affected by climate issues. “I focus on New Jersey to let the students understand what sustainability means in the state and to help them see the world that we live in,” McCaffrey says.

Creating Sustainable Solutions: Students Learn from Environmental Activists Fighting for Justice in Newark’s Ironbound

May 1, 2023

Farrah Fornarotto, a junior majoring in Anthropology, with minors in Archaeology and Native American and Indigenous Studies, paints a garden sign with the Munsee language word for "carrot."

Students Plant Seeds to Revive a Native American Language

April 11, 2023

Map of Dunkerhook Robinson 1903

Anthropology students present research findings at Archaeology conference

November 9, 2022

a collage of historic documents. a torn section of an old record is inlaid within a historic map of Paramus NJ

Anthropology Alumni Publishes Original Research on Slavery in New Jersey

September 16, 2022

Group of students and field school staff posed behind a square excavation pit.

Archaeology Students Expose Historical Erasures in Northern New Jersey

August 24, 2021

Students in Scotland studying artifacts

Congratulations to the 2019 Bigel Award winner: Anna Ruane

October 17, 2019

Image of a student working on a computer using story-map software.

Anthropology Students Use Digital Tools to Expose Hidden History

September 7, 2016

Julian Brash talking with Anthropology students at New York City's High Line park.

Julian Brash and Anthropology Students on the High Line

May 11, 2015