Department Chair: Jacqueline Urla

The Department of Anthropology was established in 1969. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Anthropology Department is a four-field program, each concerned with one of the main branches of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology.

Browse the Anthropology Collections:

Anthropology Department Archaeological Projects

Anthropology Department Dissertations Collection

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Anthropology Department Faculty Selected Works pages

Anthropology Department Field Program in European Studies

Anthropology Department Masters Theses Collection

Anthropology Department Research Reports series

Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)

Laos Project Papers