Welcome
The Department of Anthropology at UAF is the only anthropology program
in the United States that maintains a holistic approach to circumpolar
studies, providing instruction and research in all aspects of northern
anthropology, with a major emphasis on Alaska and the Russian North.
UAF Anthropology offers programs leading to a BA, BS, MA, and PhD.
We publish an internationally recognized, refereed journal, the Anthropological
Papers of the University of Alaska. UAF was recently home
to the secretariat of the International
Arctic Social Sciences Association.
We have more than 70 undergraduate majors and 50 graduate students, and serve over 900
students per year. The department offers approximately 40 courses each
year.
Please browse our web site to learn more about the Department of Anthropology
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
See and read about Rainey Cabin, a historic building on the UAF campus that is integral not only to the history of the Anthropology Department, but to the history of UAF's prominence in arctic and norhtern research.
Anthropology Colloquium
Usually Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in Eielson 304
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
3:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Bldg
Anthropology Colloquium
Title: Privatizing the Right to Fish: Challenges to Livelihood and Community in Kodiak, Alaska
Courtney Carothers
Assistant Professor of Fisheries
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
3:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Bldg
Anthropology Colloquium
Title: The Story of Asdiwal Inverted – Challenges of History, Concept and Consciousness
David Koester
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UAF
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
3:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Bldg
Anthropology Colloquium
Title: Places, Property and People: Revisiting the Columbia Plateau from an Australian Perspective.
Bruce Rigsby
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
click here to see a list of recent past colloquia.
News and Events
Annual Grad Mixer
Graduate students are encouraged to attend the Anthropology Department Annual Grad Mixer, held on Friday, Sept 19, from 5-7 PM at the Rainey Cabin, on UAF campus, just west of the Hess Commons off of Kuskokwim street.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Student Presentations
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
11:00 a.m. -340 Rasmuson Library
Historical Archaeology of Marion Creek, Alaska: Placer Gold Mining and the Capitalist World-System
M.A. Thesis Defense
James Whitney
M.A. Student/ UAF Department of Anthropology
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
3:30 p.m. -304 Eielson Bldg
A 2000 Year View of Human Settlement Patterns in Shelikof Strait as Inferred from Archaeological Avian Remains from the Mink Island Site (49-XMK-030)
M.A. Research Prospectus
Bjorn Iverson
M.A. Student/ UAF Department of Anthropology
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
1:30 p.m. -304 Eielson Bldg
Millennial-Scale Interactions among Fish, Humans and Climate in Amalik Bay, Alaska.
Ph.D. Dissertation Research Prospectus
Holly McKinney
Ph.D. Student/ UAF Department of Anthropology
Information: fyanth@uaf.edu, 474-7288
Graduate Program Quick Links
Graduate Student Manual
Online - find out about requirements, procedures, etc.
Current Student Research Projects - find out about what our students are doing.
Comprehensive List of Graduate Student Theses/Projects (1968-2007) - learn about the wide breadth of graduate student research in the Anthropology Department.
For further information on the UAF Department
of Anthropology or to request application materials:
UAF Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
PO Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720
907-474-7288 - phone
907-474-7453 - fax
fyanth@uaf.edu
Photo caption: Field camp in Egypt - professor Joel Irish
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