What is Anthropology at York University?
Explore how people are subjected to, participate in, and contest the processes of living in a world that is interconnected by powerful economic, cultural and technological forces. Gain the tools necessary for critical analysis of our place in the social and cultural diversity of the world. Engage in topics such as development and the environment, media and culture, health and illness, gender and sexualities, religion and science, and displaced peoples. Learn to think critically about how concepts such as class, race, gender and ethnic identities are produced and expressed. Our goal is to prepare you to ask questions about contemporary, past and future social life.
A degree in Anthropology will give you the skills you need to engage critically with, and ask new questions about, the world in which we live.
Faculty members in the Department of Anthropology have national and international reputations for scholarship, engaged advocacy, and excellence in teaching at both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels. With twenty-one faculty members and eight affiliates, we are the largest socio-cultural anthropology department in Canada. We offer comprehensive and engaging programs of study focusing on four areas.
Expand your anthropological education by studying abroad
in our iBA (international BA) program
through the York International Intership Program,
or, by taking our International Field School in Greece.
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Prof. Natasha Myers
Exploring practices among artists and scientists who experiment with plant sensoria
Prof. Natasha Myers
Molecular Embodiments: Modeling Proteins and Making Scientists
Prof. Naomi Adelson
How communication technologies are contributing to new and emerging health practices
Prof. Wenona Giles
Why long-term refugees are denied access to higher education
Prof. Teresa Holmes
Exploring the cultural politics of tourism in a coastal village in Belize
Prof. Teresa Holmes
Challenging assumptions of lineage as tradition in western Kenya.
Prof. Kenneth Little
Touristic encounters and life under the pressures of transformations of public cultures in Belize
Prof. Carlota McAllister
How former Guatemalan revolutionaries are coping with counterrevolutionary violence
Prof. Carlota McAllister
How Chilean gauchos use private property to defend herding livelihood
Prof. Albert Schrauwers
The birth of corporate management in utopian socialism in Ontario and the Netherlands
Prof. Margaret MacDonald
What does the emergence of diversity as a new social movement value within midwifery mean.
Prof. Margaret MacDonald
Images of underdevelopment are "scaled up" as campaigns "count down" to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals
Prof. David Murray
How LGBT refugees experience the Immigration & Refugee Board process and adapt to a new life in Canada
Prof. Daphne Winland
Exploring post-communist transitions in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
