About the Department
We are a relatively small and student-oriented department. Upper-division classes generally have fewer than 20 students. Outside the classroom, we support an active anthropology club and there are numerous opportunities to participate in research projects with professors. While relatively small, anthropology at NIU is large enough to provide students with a broad quality education across all aspects of anthropology.
Many NIU faculty members are among the top professionals in their respective fields. NIU anthropologists have been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, Nova, New Explorers with Bill Curtis, Scientific American, as well as numerous professional journals.
Our faculty are conducting world-class research worldwide, our graduate students are producing high-impact thesis projects that address serious issues worldwide, and our classrooms expose undergraduates to the depth and history of anthropology, as well as how it applies to current global problems. What’s more, we conduct extensive research and teaching to improve conditions for the most underprivileged people in unseen and vulnerable spaces, as well as for primate species on the brink of extinction. It’s critically important that we keep doing this.
