Franz Boas (1858 – 1942), often considered the father of American anthropology, studied culture scientifically. Over the past few decades, the scientific study of culture has become marginalized, in ...

I first learned about psychological anthropology when I was a senior in college. I was committed to going to graduate school to pursue a Ph.D., but as an anthropology major and psychology minor, I was ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. Graduate school is a specialized environment where students can immerse themselves in a discipline. In Fall 2019, New School for Social Research ...

François-Joseph Lapointe, a biology professor at the Université de Montréal, has been teaching the theory of natural selection for two decades. The theory stipulates that all organisms best suited to ...

Social psychology of citizenship and identity examines how individuals come to perceive themselves as members of political and social communities, how they claim rights and enact responsibilities, and ...

Prof. Michael Silverstein, a leading University of Chicago anthropologist who made groundbreaking contributions to linguistic anthropology and helped define the field of sociolinguistics, died July 17 ...