作为一门学科，人类学研究人类在时间和空间上的多样性，试图利用生物人类学，考古学和社会文化人类学等各个子领域的工具和技术来了解人类的过去，现在和未来。它利用人类/人口之间以及不同物种之间的比较方法来了解影响其生活方式的力量。我们的教授从事以下领域的研究：疾病诊断和其他生物标记，全球人类健康，生态人类学，法医人类学，化石发掘，现代玛雅文化，DNA分析，GIS，以及历史和史前考古学。研究地点包括中美洲和拉丁美洲，加勒比海，西，东和南非，东地中海附近和德克萨斯州。所有这些项目为学生提供了与他们的教授一起参与基础研
As a discipline, anthropology studies human diversity across time and space, attempting to understand the human past, present, and future using tools and techniques from various sub-fields like biological anthropology, archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology. It utilizes a comparative approach between people/populations and among different species to understand the forces that have shaped their ways of life.<br><br>We aim to educate students to address real-world problems through a combination of classroom learning, seminars and hands-on field and laboratory research opportunities. This can include, for example, examining fossil casts or modern human bones, studying at the zoo or in villages in developing countries, and digging for artifacts in the fields or just facts in the library.<br><br>Our faculty pursues research in disease diagnostics and other biomarkers, Global and One Health, evolutionary medicine, human biology, child development, applied anthropology, ecological anthropology, forensic anthropology, fossil excavation, modern Mayan cultures, DNA analyses, and both historic and prehistoric archaeology. Research sites include Central and Latin America, the Caribbean, West, East, and South Africa, near Eastern Mediterranean, South Pacific, and Texas. All of these projects offer excellent opportunities for students to participate in primary research working alongside their professors.