• Anthropology

  • Questions? 

    Anthropology Department
    MS-B1805
    Hamline University
    1536 Hewitt Avenue
    Saint Paul, MN 55104

    651-523-2295
    dig@hamline.edu  

    Brian Hoffman
    Department Chair
    651-523-2891
    bhoffman@hamline.edu

  • Hamline student researching for anthropology.

    Anthropology Research

     

    Departmental Honors Student Research

    2007

    Kevin Watson
    Evaluation of Long Bone Length as a Juvenile Age Estimation Technique for Contemporary Populations

    2006 

    Katherine O'Sullivan
    Reading Between the Lines: The Bible's Role as "Word of God" and Published Commodity

    2005 

    Amanda Dobratz
    Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in the Leg Bones of an Ancient Mimbres Population

    2003 

    Aaron Armstrong
    Musculoskeletal Stress Markers as Indicators of Activity patterns in a Mimbres Population

    2001 

    Christopher Evans
    ArchDat: A Relational Database for the Classification of the Archaeological Record

    Nicholas Smits
    Rural Settlement Pattern and Process in the Region Bounded by the Mississippi, Minnesota, and Crow Rivers, Hennepin and Carver Counties, Minnesota, 1851-1900

    2000 

    Sara Backowski
    Shake, Shake, Shake Your Basil! A Case Study of the East Side Children's Project

    Sara Krueger
    An Analysis of Subadult Aging Methods Utilizing a Mimbres Skeletal Population of the American Southwest

    Carrie Wright
    Human Osteology and Chemistry: Applied and Investigative Research Involving Dietary and Trace Elements, Isotopes, and Human Skeletal Material

     

    Anthropology Collaborative Research Program


    Student collaborative research projects put theory and methods into action - interviewing neighborhood residents about Hamline's impact on the community, interviewing Leech Lake tribal members about natural resource collection on the reservation, conducting research on Community Supported Agriculture, engaging in osteological analysis related to repatriation of American Indian human remains.


     

    Study Abroad


    Professors from Hamline's anthropology department regularly lead short-term study abroad courses to a number of regions of the world.

    In addition students have many other opportunities for study abroad including semester and year-long programs through Hamline's Study Abroad & Off Campus Programs office.

     

     

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