
Anthropology Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022
Graduating seniors secure jobs in executive recruitment and sustainable farming and will attend graduate school at the University of Edinburgh, the University of York, and others.
Anthropology
Anthropology is a contemporary social science that bridges both the natural sciences and humanities to examine human diversity in the past and present and the profoundly different ways in which social groups interpret and inhabit an increasingly complex world.
Our program is characterized by an emphasis on fieldwork and is encouraged in student work abroad. We cover anthropology's subfields of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology, each characterized by unique approaches, yet all oriented toward understanding and informing contemporary debates about the diversity of human experience in a wide range of societies.
Anthropology at Dickinson teaches students the process of doing anthropological research through fieldwork and laboratory research. Ethnographic fieldwork—observing and interacting intimately with people in a social setting over an extended period of time—is one of anthropology's distinctive contributions to the human sciences. In coursework and our department's ethnographic field schools, students familiarize themselves with fieldwork by conducting local and international projects that they may later develop into senior thesis papers.
Students leave the anthropology program fully prepared for graduate school, for public and nonprofit sector work and for any form of business or professional work that requires critical-thinking skills and understanding of cultural differences.
The Society of Medical Anthropology is currently presenting a series of webinars about COVID-19. The first, "Fear, Stigma and Steps Forward," and second, "Responses From Around the Globe," are now available. The aim is to prompt a discussion based on shared observations from where they live about the course of the disease, public health and medical interventions and community responses.
The Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at Dickinson College issues this statement in support of protests demanding anti-racist reforms to end police violence.
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“Anthropology at Dickinson teaches students how to be engaged readers, interviewers, and writers with a cross-cultural lens. Being an anthropology major has allowed me to build skills in qualitative and quantitative research pratices and complete my own research projects that draw on my interdisciplinary interests and make connections across departments at Dickinson.”
- Courtney Gistaro ’19
Graduating seniors secure jobs in executive recruitment and sustainable farming and will attend graduate school at the University of Edinburgh, the University of York, and others.
Meet Izzy Ferrazza ’24, an anthropology major who values how her Dickinson professors are professors are "extremely passionate and dedicated to ... education."
Eleven students researched end-of-life issues and care in the Netherlands during spring break. What they learned was surprising, and it may enhance their future lives and careers.
Maya Peck '22 presents original research on Latinx Trump supporters at a regional Northeastern Anthropological Association (NEAA) conference.
Frédéric Keck, a social anthropologist, will explain how clues in the environment can help us better prepare for future pandemics in a virtual talk from The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.