York University Anthropolgy Department - Toronto, Canada - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

What is Anthropology at York University?

Our courses offer dynamic environments where you will learn about global diversity and the complex political, economic and cultural forces that shape our world. 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. As one of the largest socio-cultural anthropology departments 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.

News

Congratulations to Prof. Natasha Myers for winning an Ontario Early Research Award for a project that examines how plants are acquiring new status and visibility in our culture.This ethnographic research will shed light on the ethical and political significance of these shifts in perception about nonhuman life and the order of things.
Congratulations to Prof. Natasha Myers, Leslie Jermyn, Karen McGarry, Karl Schmid and Tim Epp for their nominations for the Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence!
Prof. David Murray's new book, "Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia and Social Change in Barbados" has been published by University of Toronto Press.

Prof. Kathryn Denning was interviewed by Wired Science on "The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens." Prof. Denning studies "the very human way that scientists, engineers and members of the public think about space exploration and the search for alien life."
Class video goes viral on YouTube! “Barter That,” a parody of Young Money’s “Roger That” video was produced by students in a York University anthropology class.
Summer Courses are open for registration! Offerings include courses at all year levels.
York graduate, Gabriella Torres (now a professor at Wheaton College, MA) has been awarded the 2011 Best Article Prize, for "Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence" published in the Latin American Research Review.

Events

April 20-22, 2012. Prof. Natasha Myers co-organized the "The Politics of Care in Technoscience" workshop. Keynote speaker was anthropologist Charis Thompson.

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