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The Department of Anthropology was founded in 1935 as part of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alaska. The first undergraduate degrees in Anthropology were given in 1959, the first MA degrees in 1968 and the first PhD degrees in 1988. We are the only anthropology program in the United States that maintains a holistic approach to circumpolar studies, providing instruction and research in all aspects of anthropology.
News and events
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From Anthropology of Art to Art and Anthropology
Friday January 22, 2021 3pm Alaska Time (Zoom)
Igor Pasternak
University of Alaska Fairbanks
From Anthropology of Art to Art and Anthropology
Presented by an artist who collaborates with culturally diverse communities and multidisciplinary teams, this talk shares a framework for doing artist-led ethnography. At the core of this approach is working collaboratively toward an art show on a topic that speaks to a local lived experience, has a materially expressed dimension, and is of mutual interest to the researchers and community members. While providing a prolific mode for ethnographic engagement, a jointly conceived art co-production fuels a certain form of agency. This agency enhances the critically minded involvement by the participants, generating broadly illuminating and critical ethnographic insight on the role of everyday aesthetics in social-cultural practices.
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Indigenous Star Knowledge Symposia: Adisokan: Winter Solstice, Stars and Storytelling
December 21, 2020 11am to 1pm Alaska Time
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Alaskan Museums & Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Basketry
Lynn Walker PhD Prospectus Defense, Thursday, December 10, 10:00am, via Zoom
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Anthropology Colloquium: Blackfoot Early Origins: Community-based Paleoindian Archaeology
Francois Lanoe and Maria Neives Zedeno
University of Arizona
Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 03:00 PM Alaska, via Zoom -
The Yup'ik Relationships of Qiluliuryaraq (Processing Intestine)
Ellen Carrlee PhD Dissertation Defense, Friday, October 23, 9:00am, via Zoom
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Ethnoarchaeology of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska
Gerad Smith PhD Dissertation Defense, Friday, September 25, 3:30pm, via Zoom
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The Water and Environmental Research Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks has two funded PhD positions (both include tuition, stipend, and insurance for 3 years) in isogeochemistry and paleoecology. Our research team seeks students who are interested in interdisciplinary, convergence research in marine science and ecology, archaeology, fisheries, and iso- and bio-geochemistry.
Both positions will research isotope ecology of historic and archaeological bone of sea mammals and fish. Students can be housed in a department of their choice, including Anthropology. Ideally students would be enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer or Fall 2021. Students must have a Master’s degree in hand at the time of enrollment.
For more detail on the two PhD positions, please see the full announcement. If you are interested in applying to be a part of the research project, please contact Nicole Misarti (nmisarti@alaska.edu) to learn more about the projects and discuss possible departmental affiliations as soon as possible.
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Chukotkan Communities of the Bering Strait Region, a Hundred Years after Bogoras
Eduard Zdor PhD Dissertation Prospectus Defense, Thursday, May 7, 10am, via Zoom
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April 18, 2020
Join Zoom Meeting Apr 18, 2020 11:00 AM Alaska: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/793299802
Meeting ID: 793 299 802
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Our Whole Gwich’ in Way of Life Has Changed. Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih.
Stories from the People of the LandLeslie McCartney Anthropology Colloquium
Leslie McCartney
Anthropology Colloquium Series
April 17, 2020, 3 pm, via Zoom -
Firday, March 6, 5:30-7:30pm, UAF Murie Auditorium
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"S" in Odes(s)a: Ukraine's Multinational Mama-City In a Layered National Dress
February 7, 2020Sveta Yamin-Pasternak PhD Colloquium -
January 31, 2020Kevin M. Sippel MA Thesis Defense, Friday, Jan. 31, 3pm, Bunnell 402Kevin M. Sippel MA Defense
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Visual Anthropology of the North - A New Global Paradigm
January 24, 2020Len Kamerling - Anthropology Colloquium Series, Friday, Jan. 24, 3pm, Bunnell 402Len Kamerling Anthropology Colloquium
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Patrick Plattet
Office: 307D Bunnell Building
Phone: 907-474-6608
Email: pplattet@alaska.edu
Department of Anthropology
Email: uaf-anthropology@alaska.edu
Phone: 907-474-7009
Physical address:
405A Bunnell Building
1790 Tanana Loop
Mailing address:
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Fairbanks, AK 99775