Cultural Anthropology
As American society becomes increasingly multicultural, a globalized workforce demands intercultural competence. The cultural anthropology minor at HL黑料门不打烊 explores the nature of culture in different settings and historical time periods, helping you better understand diversity.
You鈥檒l examine human behavior across cultures, focusing on cross-cultural similarities and differences in areas such as kinship, politics, economics, religion, youth culture, globalization, and gender. Rigorous coursework draws on professors鈥� expertise in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Africa, and Asia.
Expert Faculty
Department of Anthropology
Telephone: 407.646.2670
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Shan-Estelle Brown, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Faculty Director of Global Health
Research interests: Medical anthropology, patient-provider relationship, health disparities, chronic illness, self-treatment, global health
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Zack Gilmore, PhD
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research interests: Anthropological archaeology, pre-Columbian Florida and American Southeast, shell mounds, early pottery technology and exchange
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Rachel Newcomb, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
Research interests: Cultural and applied/public anthropology, Middle East and North Africa, gender, Islam, globalization, immigration, and food studies
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Andr茅s Romero, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Research interests: Cultural/medical anthropology, violence, place and memory, drug rehabilitation, the anthropology of life/death, visual culture, literary ethnography, Colombia
