Department of Anthropology

Anthropology professor Bettina Shell-Duncan consulted on a report that finds female genital cutting has seen a gradual but significant decline in many countries.

People in most cultures view a woman's small feet as a sign of youth and fertility, but that's not true of all cultures, including the Karo Batak of island of Sumatra, reports UW anthropologist Geoff Kushnick.

University of Washington doctoral candidate Maria Quintana (History) and alumnus Samuel Anderson (Anthropology, '00) are among the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013, awarded each year by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

"The Best of the Best American Poetry" collects 25 years of the best poetry published in this country, including poems by Sherman Alexie and the University of Washington's Heather McHugh.

Huskies linebacker John Timu has become the first UW student-athlete to win the prestigious Baldwin Scholarship in Anthropology. Timu will be a featured researcher at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in May.

A UW anthropology student investigated how remembrance photography helps grieving parents, and how the practice's resurgence could signal a change in the way death and dying are dealt with in our society.

Do you have any ancient artifacts lying around at your house? You can learn more about your treasured collector items at the Burke Museum's 28th annual Artifact ID Day on Feb. 9.

No need to leave campus for the farm experience. The student-run UW Farm, tucked into a third of an acre on campus, is a working farm with ties to courses in everything from biology to anthropology to American Ethnic Studies. 

Working in teams with seniors from the Pike Market Senior Center, students in a course on qualitative research methods learned to embrace the "organized chaos" that is field research.

Anthropology Professor Steve Harrell, PhD students Barbara Grub and Tami Blumenfield, and alumna Victoria Poling ('04) created the Cool Mountain Education Fund, providing scholarships for students in China’s Liangshan region to continue their studies beyond primary school.

A team of UW faculty and students, along with Russian and Japanese colleagues, are piecing together a history of the isolated Kuril Islands by studying its archaeological, geological, and biological record. 

UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. 

Anthropology professor Lorna Rhodes explores the challenges faced by prisoners and prison staff in a maximum security prison.