The Department of Anthropology has vibrant graduate and undergraduate degree programs. Undergraduate students may earn an anthropology degree through either a B.A. in Anthropology or B.S. in Human Health & Biology. Depending on the program, undergraduate degrees in anthropology require courses in one or more subfields, as well as course requirements in research methods, resulting in a well-rounded understanding of people in this country and around the world, both past and present. The department offers fieldwork opportunities and is active in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Honors College, so that undergraduates who so desire can obtain actual experience in anthropology. We maintain close ties with the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, and we encourage international study to augment these opportunities. Mobility, subsistence, and territoriality of Paleo Indian and Archaic hunters of the Plains, faunal analysis (Bement)
Bioarchaeology, archaeology of death, osteology, human remains, cremations, forensic anthropology, embodiment, social identity (Cerezo-Romn)
Contemporary challenges in human health require interdisciplinary approaches to understand the complex interplay of social and biological processes. Our graduate program in Human Health and Biology is designed to prepare students to engage in work at the interface of biological and medical anthropology.
Across our program, faculty have expertise in: Community engaged research, Ethics (bioethics, ethics and death, ethical, legal, and social implications), Infectious disease (emerging and evolving), Anthrozoology (human-animal interaction, contemporary and ancient)
Death and dying, Life course development (childhood and aging), Reproduction and fertility, Anthropological demography, Food and nutrition
