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Sociology & Anthropology
The Sociology and Anthropology Department offers an array of courses on various aspects of social life worldwide. We strive to understand humanity in all its social and cultural diversity. Our courses explore the relationship between individual experience and its broader cultural and historical contexts.
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We regard our disciplines as liberatory enterprises: we seek to reveal the social structures, power relationships and prejudices that keep people from directing their own lives. As such, ours are value-laden disciplines. We emphasize the possibility of change in human society, rooted in the understanding that social conditions are constructed through human action.
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INQUIRY MEETS IMPACT
Preserving cultures through archaeology
Professor Wes Bernardini, Ph.D., gives students hands-on experience through real archaeological research. For more than 25 years, he has collaborated with the Hopi Tribe, involving students in field notes, artifact cataloging, and site documentation. Former student Jamie Nord Parra ’19 developed valuable skills as Bernardini’s research assistant. Learn more about how this experience helped launch her career as a professional archaeologist.
