Department of Anthropology UCF

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The Department of Anthropology main office will be open on Monday through Friday. Hours of operation are 8:00am – 5:00pm. Faculty may be contacted through email. For general assistance, please email anthro@ucf.edu.

The Future of Academic Anthropology

The UCF Department of Anthropology represents the future of academic anthropology. The department has an interdisciplinary approach in archaeological, cultural, biological, linguistic, and applied/public anthropology. Through its combination of face-to-face and online teaching and field and laboratory research, the department seeks to advance anthropological concepts by actively investigating questions of relevance to the world.

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