http://www.as.miami.edu/anthropology/
The University of Miami Department of Anthropology trains excellent students in a four-field approach to anthropology and encourages primary research at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are committed to excellence in research and have a specific focus on human responses to health and environmental challenges in the Caribbean and Latin America. We have active research projects in ancient craft production and exchange; racialized and gender identities in the past; use and misuse of drugs; paleontology dietary reconstruction; captive management of lemurs. Projects in collaboration with INURED in Haiti; Center for Haitian Studies; the program in transcultural nursing; the program in LGBTQ Studies; the program in global health; Yaxunah Centro Cultural; Lowe Art Museum; Comprehensive Drug Research Center; the departments of Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine.
Research facilities including a community outreach and assessment center at the School of Medicine; internships with Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, HistoryMiami and Lowe Art Museum; Little Salt Spring Research Facility; South Campus primate facility; convenient off-campus primate observation sites at Zoo Miami and Bonnet House; computer lab in biological anthropology; preparation lab in Cox Science Building; Mass Spectrometry analysis at Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.
