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Research

Faculty in the Department of Anthropology maintain active research projects and publish widely in a variety of venues and forms. Anthropological research takes place in the field, in archives and research institutions and in laboratories, and often involves long-term collaborations and partnerships with other institutions, professional associations and foundations.

Undergraduates and graduate students regularly participate in faculty research projects in the field and can conduct individual research projects in New York City or in the biological anthropology, archaeology and linguistics laboratories based at Hunter’s 68th Street Campus. The Department of Anthropology Research and Training Grants, awarded each semester, provide funds to support independent research by undergraduate majors and graduate students.

Follow the links below for in-depth information about faculty labs, research projects and engagement with institutions within and beyond Hunter. Further details about our faculty’s projects and publications can be found in their individual profiles.

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Hunter Research Laboratories

Labs run by Hunter College anthropology faculty engage students in research ranging from global sustainability and wildlife ecology, to primate behavior and evolutionary biology.

Dig at Kangeq, West-Greenland
Human Ecodynamics Research Center
monkey eating
Nutritional Ecology Lab
monkey skull
Primate Evolution Lab
black and white monkey in tree
Primate Molecular Ecology Lab

Research Collaborations

These projects introduce Hunter students to researchers from around the world and unite resources from other celebrated universities, research institutions, museums and conservation societies.

Purgatorius illustration
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)
Team excavating a viking site
North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO)
Peasants’ Rights activists
Peasants’ Rights Project

Field Schools

Hunter anthropology students interested in doing fieldwork can travel to research sites and engage in hands-on excavation projects with other international scholars.

Nabo field school excavation
North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) in Swandro, Scotland
Erosion at Walakpa
Walakpa Archaeological Salvage Project (WASP) in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Recent Faculty Publications

gestures-we-live-byGestures We Live By
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020
Edited by Lluís Payrató and Ignasi Clemente

rethinking-debatable-momentsRethinking Debatable Moments in the Civil Rights Movement: Learning for the Present Moment
Cognella, 2020
Edited by David Julian Hodges, Neil Douglas and Terry Wykowski

verge-studiesInfrastructures and Global Political Aesthetics
Verge: Studies in Global Asias 6, 2020
Edited by Jessamyn Abel and Leo Coleman

rural-studiesAuthoritarian Populism and Emancipatory Rural Politics in the United States
Journal of Rural Studies 82 (2021)
Edited by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Marc Edelman

Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
Routledge, 2021
Edited by Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Ruth Hall and Wendy Wolford

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