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Our department supports an interdisciplinary approach to the study of global, urban, historical, and cultural experience, practices, and change. Our faculty are scholarly experts in archaeology, cultural anthropology, economics, education, folklore, psychology, and sociology which represent academic disciplines dedicated to the understanding of human social life, past and present.

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News & Events

Conference: "The Uses and Abuses of History in the Trump Era"

March 28, 2019 - 8:30AM to March 29, 2019 - 8:00PM

RIT Campus Center

"The Three Deadliest Words in the World: It's a Girl"

Sociology Professor Rachel McGinnis will participate in a panel discussion following this film, which examines the murders, abandonment, and abuse of girls worldwide

October 18, 2018 - 6:00PM

1400 Golisano Hall (Xerox Auditorium)

"Deaf Identity, Self, and Personhood in Guatemala"

Guest lecture by Monica Rodriguez, Sept. 28, 2019

September 28, 2018 - 11:00AM to 12:30PM

1310 Eastman Hall

Equal Pay Day and data equality for Native American women

September 27, 2018 - 12:02PM

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Faculty Scholarship

Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory

Robert Ulin

"Mediated Hostility", in Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (ed. A. Hinton)

Conerly Casey

The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Politics of Bible Translation in Mexico. In: Pluralizing Ethnography

Christine A. Kray

Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell, eds.

Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader

Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith, editors

A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Conerly Casey and Robert B. Ederton, editors

The We and the Us: Mentoring African-American Women

Kijana Crawford

Resistance to What? How?: Stalled Social Movements in Cancun. In: City and Society

Christine A. Kray

German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler

Uli Linke

A God for the Poor: Folk Catholicism and Social Justice among the Yucatec Maya. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice

Christine A. Kray

The Pentecostal Re-Formation of Self: Opting for Orthodoxy in Yucatán. In: Ethos

Christine A. Kray

Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass

Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin, editors

Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer

William D. Middleton

Antropología y teoría social

Robert C. Ulin

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race

Uli Linke

The Sense of Tranquility: Bodily Practice and Ethnic Classes in Yucatán. In: Ethnology

Christine A. Kray

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Alumni Spotlight: Angela Stallone

Alumni Spotlight: Angela Stallone

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