Graduate Subdisciplines
Archaeologists study past human societies, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind. The archaeology department at CU-Boulder provides continuous geographic coverage of ancient societies from the Plains of North America through the Southwest and Mesoamerica to the Intermediate Area. Numerous faculty areas of expertise include:
- human ecology
- agency and social theory
- disasters in ancient and modern times
The graduate program in biological anthropology at CU Boulder offers training in several areas, including primatology, human biology, and paleoanthropology. We share an interest in human ecology, the broad integrative area of anthropology that focuses on the interactions of culture, biology and the environment. We also share an interest in the processes of globalization, which are rapidly changing many aspects of the modern world.
Cultural anthropology is the subfield of anthropology concerned with cultural variation and universals among past and present human societies. At CU-Boulder, regional expertise extends from the Arctic to East Africa, from the Caribbean to Tibet. Faculty interests are wide-ranging and include:
- culture and power
- post-colonialism
- racial constructs
- religion and ritual