Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology at Penn State integrates social, ecological, and evolutionary approaches to understand variability in the human condition through time and across space. We offer an integrated program of graduate study at both the Ph.D. and M.A. level focusing on specialized training in:

  • human and behavioral ecology
  • cultural anthropology
  • anthropological demography
  • archaeology
  • archaeometry
  • genetics
  • human evolution
  • the behavioral and evolutionary biology of human and non-human primates
Degree Types: Graduate Minor, I.U.G., Joint M.D/Ph.D., Ph.D.
  • Bioethics
  • Climate Science
  • Demography
  • Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Medical Scientist Training Program in Anthropology Joint M.D./Ph.D.
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