Anthropology studies the complexity and diversity of human and nonhuman life in an interconnected world. At Wesleyan, we offer courses on anthropological theories and methods, as well as topics including urban anthropology, globalization, media studies, consumer culture, archaeology, social movements and activism, development and humanitarianism, and race, gender and sexuality. Anthropology provides excellent preparation for a variety of careers that require an understanding of cultural difference in a transnational world, in such fields as education, journalism, law, media, medicine, development, and social justice organizing, as well as for graduate and professional studies. Social justice and ethical concerns have always been central to the discipline of anthropology.
Recent Faculty Books
Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism
Joseph Weiss, University of British Columbia Press, 2018.
Recent Faculty Books
Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, & the World
Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
Recent Faculty Books
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Margot Weiss, Duke University Press, 2011.
Recent Faculty Books
Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays
Elizabeth Traube, ANU E Press, 2012.
Recent Faculty Books
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle
Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
Recent Faculty Books
The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Trangression, and Urban Renewal in Lima
Daniella Gandolfo, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Recent Faculty Books
Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
Anu (Aradhana) Sharma, University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Recent Faculty Books
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Impoters, a Hatian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica
Gina Athena Ulysse, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
