The Department of Anthropology is committed to providing exceptional, student-centered learning experiences. One hundred percent of our faculty teach undergraduate courses, ensuring that students in the major have access to scientists on the cutting edge of the discipline.

OSU's Anthropology faculty work all over the world – from Turkey and Yemen to South Africa and Mexico – putting their research to work and bringing the study of humankind to life for our students.

The OSU Department of Anthropology:

• Houses the nation's premier paleoethnobotany laboratory and a state-of-the-art bioarchaeology laboratory.
• Is home to the leading journal in physical anthropology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
• Provides field study opportunities at OSU's archaeological field school in Hungary – one of only three anthropological field schools funded by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
• Offers field studies of primates, in their habitats, around the world including Africa and Latin America.
• Provides immediate and ongoing access to world-renowned faculty through excellent individual advising and mentoring, undergraduate research opportunities and senior thesis projects.
• Gives undergraduate and graduate students a real life "CSI meets Indiana Jones" experience through voluntary participation in the Forensic Archaeology Cold Case Team (FACCT). This team assists law enforcement and related agencies in the recovery and analysis of human remains.