The University of Arizona has a long legacy of anthropological research in the Southwest region that spans all subfields of anthropology and involves numerous other campus units. This theme promotes ...

I am a historical and environmental anthropologist and have held a joint appointment as Research Anthropologist at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology of ...

David Killick and Frances Hayashida (2022). Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru,ca. 1030–1180 cal AD. Journal of Archaeological ...

I am a socio-cutural and medical anthropologist. In my scholarship I draw on insights garnered from over two decades of field-based research that has centered on multi-dimensional aspects of violence, ...

The School of Anthropology internship program began with the founding of the school over 100 years ago when Byron Cummings started a teaching curriculum in the classroom and in the field. Find out how ...

Intersections of Health, Environment, and Human Rights; Peru (Lima, El Callao, La Oroya and the Mantaro Valley); Epistemic Politics of Toxicity; Science and Activism; (Neo)-Extractivism and Political ...

My research concerns the constitutive role of language in contexts of social change and globalization. Specifically, my work has dealt with the entanglements of linguistic practice and rapid ...

Mario Macías is a student of sociocultural anthropology at the UA. He obtained his degree in Anthropology from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico, and his master’s degree in ...

Sociocultural anthropology combines theoretical and methodological innovation with a strong commitment to fieldwork and to ethnographic writing.

Dr. Mamadou serves as the chair of BARA (Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology) which is responsible for many successes in research and outreach presences in sub-Saharan Africa. He is an ...

John Douglass is an archaeologist with decades of experience conducting household, settlement pattern, and colonial era research in Mesoamerica, the US American Southwest, and California. His current ...

Vance Holliday is both an archaeologist and geologist who has spent much of his career reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which past societies lived, and how these ...