The Department is a North American leader in terms of its size and the variety of its members’ research interests. The Department is also the only one to cover all 4 sub-disciplines:

• Archaeology
• Biological anthropology
• Ethnolinguistics
• Ethnology

The Department combines European and North American approaches, offering students broad-ranging and specialized programs with a focus on current concerns and debates. Students may follow a more interdisciplinary approach.

Ideally, students already have a basic background in English, biology, geography, mathematics and history.