5th Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge: Unhopped and Unplugged Brews

Try your hand at producing a prehistoric/early historic fermented beverage from any time period/geographic area using archaeologically/historically attested plants as hops substitutes! On Saturday April 25, 2026 from 5:00-7:00pm in the Honors College (HON 196), 3363 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, …

Latest UWM InFocus spotlights Anthropology alum, Cassie Coffey

Alum’s playful job title highlights the diversity of opportunities available to Anthropologists and Museum Professionals A recent UWM InFocus article written by Sarah Vickery spotlights Anthropology and Museum Studies alum, Cassie Coffey. Cassie is the Director of Playful Experiences at …

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 …

Congratulations to our Class of 2023!

      Anthropology successfully graduated a substantial amount of students this year and we couldn’t be more proud of them. This year we had six PhD students, seven Master’s students, and almost 20 undergraduates finish their degrees. PhD dissertations …

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.