Research Cluster: Art and New Materialisms
Art and New Materialisms
This cluster examines artistic forms of cultural and political creativity, beauty, and imagination.
New materialism asks about the life of objects and other matter, and encompasses cultural anthropology, archaeology, and other interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Research areas include cultural and artistic expressions, ranging from pottery to images to music.
Affiliated Courses
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
2BB3: Ancient Mesoamerica
2FO3: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2MA3: Media, Art and Anthropology
2PA3: Intro to Anthropological Archaeology
2PC3: Aliens, Curses, and Nazis
2RP3: Religion and Power in the Past
3CAC: Ceramic Analysis
3EM3: Current Debates in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
3LA3: Lithics Analysis
3FF3: Key Debates in Andean Archaeology
4AA3: Materiality
4EE3: Archaeology In (And Of) the Present
4WO3: Explorations in Experimental Anthropology
702: Contemporary Problems
722: Ethnographic Theory and Research Methods
786: Global Futures
787: Object Worlds
Researchers
Andy Roddick
PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Chair, Anthropology
Basit Iqbal
PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct & Associate Member, Religious Studies
Adjunct & Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Research Programs
Departmental faculty and graduate students fit into one or more research programs (sub-fields).
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate our Research Programs in the below six key areas of expertise and investigation.
