Professor Ashley Lemke Featured in History Channel Show

UWM Anthropology Professor Ashley Lemke, an expert in underwater archaeology, appears on The History Channel’s new show, “Mysteries Unearthed,” hosted by actor Danny Trejo. Professor Lemke was interviewed to provide a scientific point of view about various underwater mysteries around …

UWM Anthropology SURF Students Present at Annual MAC Conference

A new open-access archaeology lab has just dropped! UWM Support for Undergraduate Research (SURF) students Elsie Touchstone and Rachel Stewart along with their research mentor, Dr. Shannon Freire, presented their co-created Archaeological Dating Lab at the 2024 Midwest Archeological Conference …

Anthropology Department Colloquia Return Wednesday Dec. 4th

The Department of Anthropology will hold its first colloquium on December 4th at 4:00 PM in Sabin Hall, room G90 on the ground floor. Students, Faculty, and Public are all welcome to attend for free. Unfortunately, our November 6th Colloquium …

Congratulations to our Dean’s List Honor Students!

The Anthropology Department celebrates the accomplishments and hard work of our Anthropology Majors this past semester. Great job and have a wonderful summer! Ryleigh  Carroll Crystal Hernandez Keni Thiesen DeAmayiah Clayhiggs Laila Howe Elsie Touchstone Angelina Collura Heather Kluczykowski Lauryn …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.