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Anthropology at PSU
The Anthropology Department at Portland State University was established in 1959 as a four field Anthropology department with Oregon's only free-standing master's program. Since then, anthropologists at Portland State University have compiled a long record of research, teaching and community involvement. Among its distinguished former faculty was Wayne Suttles, the premier 20th century ethnographer and linguist of the Northwest Coast. Currently, the Department has faculty in Sociocultural Anthropology, Archaeology, and Biological Anthropology. The Department's emphases that cross-cut the subdisciplines are Applied Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology. The Department's programs and faculty research take advantage of the university's location in Portland, Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and on the eastern edge of the Pacific basin. Our students are also encouraged to take advantage of opportunities offered in other departments and programs at Portland State University.
Mission Statement
Anthropology studies human biological and cultural diversity through time and space and the interplay between culture and biology. It encompasses our closest relatives and the human experience from our earliest known bipedal ancestors to the modern world, from the smallest human groups to empires and multinational corporations. Anthropologists deal with prehistoric, historic, and contemporary peoples and with such topics as human evolution, subsistence and settlement systems, family, urban development, transnationalism, globalization, social conflict, gender, symbolic systems, and human ecology. Anthropologists apply the knowledge gained from diverse theoretical perspectives to practical human problems in settings such as health care, educational development, and natural and cultural resource management, among others. As scholars, we are committed to the highest quality teaching in the classroom and the field; to ongoing research both in Portland and abroad; and to active engagement in wider university and community programs.
Contact Us:
Connie Cash, Office Coordinator, at (503) 725-3081
Fax number: (503) 725-3905
Email: cashc@pdx.edu
Kenneth M. Ames , Department Chair, at (503) 725-3049
Email: amesk@pdx.edu
| Mailing Address: | Street Address: |
| Anthropology Department | Anthropology Department |
| Portland State University | 141 Cramer Hall |
| P.O. Box 751 | 1721 SW Broadway |
| Portland, OR 97202 | Portland, OR 97201 |
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Last Updated: May 4, 2007