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 Anthropology Colloquium Series: Friday, November 10, 2023

UWM Anthropology Colloquium, Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Ocomtún: A Recently Discovered  City in the Maya Lowlands  Professor Ivan Šprajc  Professor, Director of the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts …

Students Show Off Research at the Midwest Archaeological Conference

By Pete Geraci           UWM Anthropology students and faculty attended the 66th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference this month in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This year’s conference theme was Engaging With Communities, celebrating the efforts of Archaeologists to …

UWM Anthropology Colloquium Series: Friday, October 20, 2023

“Between Mobility and Control: The Production of Global Migratory Corridors across the Americas” By Professor Soledad Alvarez Velasco (Anthropology Dept, University of Illinois-Chicago) UWM Anthropology Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Friday, October 20, 2023 …

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.