The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine is at the forefront of innovation in anthropological research.

The Anthropology Department at UC Irvine was founded in 1994, making it one of the younger programs in the University of California system. Originally specializing in sociocultural anthropology, the department’s expertise has expanded to include linguistic anthropology and archaeology alongside an emergent collection of innovative, boundary-crossing research clusters. The research we do is distinctive and diverse, but what holds it all together is a shared commitment to analyzing the social contemporary at multiple scales, and always with an eye toward justice.The Department of Anthropology acknowledges that UCI is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Acjachemen/Juaneño and Tongva Nation.
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