Anthropology Department
Research Facilities
On-campus resources for Anthropology students
Emory University has outstanding facilities in support of anthropological research. A wide range of affiliated institutions, university departments, programs, and divisions provide anthropology graduate students with a unique, interdisciplinary experience.
Anthropology offers graduate training in the biological and cultural subdisciplines. Biological anthropology students may participate in five fully equipped research laboratories housed within the Anthropology department: the Laboratory of Reproductive Ecology and Environmental Toxicology, the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology, the Human Osteology Laboratory., the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience, the Laboratory for Biogeochemical Anthropology. Cultural students may also participate in the Media Publics and Critical Discourse Laboratory.
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) fosters innovative research in behavioral neuroscience with a focus on the neurobiology of social behavior. CBN offers graduate fellowships for research in behavioral neuroscience and career development workshops and internships in biotechnology, science policy, and science journalism. Another potential research affiliation for students is the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, which maintains a facility on the Emory campus and also a field station just outside of Atlanta, near Lawrenceville, Georgia. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located near campus, provides important collaborative opportunities in medical anthropology. Anthropology faculty also have close ties to the School of Public Health. In addition, the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society offers fellowships and conducts seminars of interest to anthropologists.
Resources are equally rich for students interested in cultural anthropology. The Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) focuses its research on the functions and significance of ritual and myth in dual wage-earner middle-class families in the American South. The MARIAL Center offers graduate fellowships for doctoral research on some aspect of ritual, narrative or mythology in middle-class American family life. The Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)coordinates and promotes area studies and comparative and international scholarship.
The Anthropology department also has strong affiliations with the following institutes and programs: African Studies, African American Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Post-Colonial Studies group, as well as the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, the History Department, the Program in Linguistics and the Psychology Department. Emory faculty associated with the University's Institute of African Studies comprise one of the largest groups of Africanist anthropologists in the United States, and Emory's Department of Women's Studies offers one of the only Ph.D. programs in Women's Studies in the countryAnnual themes at Emory's Center for the Study of Public Scholarship are often topics of anthropological relevance.
The Woodruff Library includes over two million volumes, major journals, the Human Relations Area Files, CD-ROM data bases, a highly efficient inter-library loan system, and on-line catalog services. The Pitts Theological Library houses excellent collections on issues of colonialism and religion. The Carter Center of Emory University, affiliated with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, also offers potential research resources.
A wide range of computing systems, software, and services is provided by the University Computing Center, including electronic library resources, access to the World Wide Web, electronic mail, and LearnLink, a sophisticated on-line course conferencing and communication system.