Anthropology

Mailing Address: 
Department of Anthropology (MC 027)
1007 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7139

Contact Information: 
Campus Location: 2102 BSB 
(312) 413-3570 
 
anth.uic.edu

Administration: 
Head of the Department: Sloan Williams (sloanw@uic.edu)
Director of Graduate Studies: Mitch Hendrickson (mjhend@uic.edu)

Program Codes: 
20FS0340MA (MA)
20FS0340PHD (PhD)

The Department of Anthropology offers a program leading to degrees in anthropology at both the master’s and doctoral levels. Interdepartmental Concentrations available to students in this program include Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Museum and Exhibition Studies. The department has research laboratories supporting studies in archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and biological anthropology.

One of the unique strengths of the department is its collaborative PhD program with the Field Museum. Under this program, curators in the Department of Anthropology at the Field Museum support, mentor, and help train graduate students. For example, Field Museum curators frequently serve as chairs or members of PhD committees and they commonly include UIC graduate students in their research projects. Graduate students also have access to many of the laboratories, collections, and other facilities of the Field Museum. While the collaborative UIC-Field Museum program can enhance the training opportunities of sociocultural and biological anthropology students, it is most widely used by archaeology students. The collaborative UIC-Field Museum program establishes a large concentration of anthropological archaeologists and members of these two departments conduct field research across the world. Students who are interested in making use of the UIC-Field Museum connection do not need to submit any additional information over what is requested for general admissions to the Anthropology graduate program.