An Education in Anthropology
Anthropologists study human beings from every time period, in every way possible, and in all their complexity. Click here to learn more about what a degree in Anthropology can do for you.
The Department of Anthropology at Berkeley has long been ranked among the top five departments in the United States.
Berkeley Anthropologists have a history of innovation and leadership in emergent areas of the discipline, whether conducting their research in modern biological labs, in globalizing villages throughout the world, or at places being developed as sites of cultural heritage and national identity. The Berkeley faculty includes the largest number of winners of the J. I. Staley Prize(link is external), awarded annually to an outstanding anthropology book by a living author, the only discipline-wide award in anthropology.
Anthropology Faculty Member: Andrew W Kim featured on Berkeley News
On the forefront of genetics, mental illness and trauma’s lasting effects
Image: Andrew Kim examines the quality of blood collected during participant visits at the research site at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo courtesy Andrew Kim)
Congratulations, Prof. Daena Funahashi, on your first-ever book publication!

The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health recently interviewed Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology Dr. Andrew Kim on his recently published paper, 'Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vunerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa' Check it out here: https://www.acamh.org/podcasts/psychological-legacies-of-intergenerational-trauma/
Congratulations Prof. Cori Hayden -Check out Cori's New Published Book
In The Spectacular Generic, UC Berkeley's Anthropology Professor Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Click here to read.
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