Department contact information
The Anthropology Department at Brandeis University offers a wide range of courses covering the discipline's four major subfields:
- sociocultural anthropology,
- linguistic anthropology,
- physical anthropology, and
- archaeology.
The Department also has available for students a number of special resources, including the Anthropology Colloquium Series; Symbolic Form Study Group, Working Group in Economic Anthropology; Material Culture Study Center, Archaeology laboratory; the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE); the Boston Library Consortium; cross registration at certain Boston-area institutions; and opportunities for supplemental coursework in other Brandeis departments and programs. The department is a member of the Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium (GBAC), which consists of the anthropologists on the faculties of Brandeis University, Tufts University, Olin College and Wellesley College.
Areas of faculty specialization include economic anthropology and development, gender studies, urban anthropology, sociolinguistics, symbolic and semiotic studies, prehistoric and historic archaeology, cognitive and psychological anthropology, computer-mediated communication, medical anthropology, religion, comparative methods, evolution of complex societies, and theory and method in sociocultural anthropology and archaeology.
Department Contact Information
| Campus Address: | Brown 228 |
| Mailing Address: | Department of Anthropology Brandeis University P.O. Box 549110, MS 006 Waltham, MA 02454-9110 |
| Chair: | Sarah Lamb (781) 736-2211 |
| Director of Graduate Studies: | David Jacobson (781) 736-2228 |
| Undergraduate Advising Head: | Janet McIntosh (781) 736-2215 |
| Academic Administrator: | Laurel Carpenter lcarpent@brandeis.edu (781) 736-2210 |
| Fax: | 781-736-2232 |
| E-mail: | anthropology@brandeis.edu |