Western Michigan University

• Our program's core purpose is to provide students with anthropological knowledge and with critical thinking skills through teaching, mentoring, and conducting both scholarly and applied research.
  

• We see anthropology as a means to enhance the understanding of the human condition by integrating historical, cultural, and biological perspectives.

• Through teaching, research, and example we aim to broaden our appreciation of human diversity past and present; to explore issues of cultural and biological change; and to gain awareness of and affect the conditions that give rise to social differences and inequalities.

• The intent of these efforts is to provide students and faculty with an academic environment for liberal thinking that will encourage the appreciation and exploration of human diversity; the application of modern technologies to document and solve social problems; and respect for the diversity of ideas in teaching, research, and its practical applications.

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Anthropology Department
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Voice: 269-387-3969     Fax: 269-387-3970

Chair: Prof. Robert Ulin

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jon Holtzman

Last updated November 10, 2005

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