BA in Anthropology - Biological Anthropology in New York United States | New York University

The Department of Anthropology stands among the nation's premier institutions for graduate and undergraduate studies, covering cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology—the four core disciplines in its undergraduate program. The department takes pride in its faculty's diverse specializations, including archaeological focuses like medieval studies and prehistoric research in Europe, the Near East, and South Asia; biological anthropology domains such as molecular primatology, primate behavioral ecology, and human evolution studies; linguistic anthropology concentrations like discourse analysis and language acquisition; and sociocultural anthropology expertise spanning regions from North America and Africa to India, China, the Middle East, Russia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and the South Pacific. The program emphasizes key theoretical frameworks, including systems of thought, symbolic representations of identity and society, gender dynamics, transformations in social structures across rural, urban, and institutional settings, medical anthropology, evolutionary perspectives on primate and human origins, religion, art, science studies, race and ethnicity, and the challenges of ethnographic representation in film and media.

This discipline explores the biological diversity of humans and nonhuman primates, examining anatomy, genetics, behavior, ecology, and evolutionary patterns. It connects with other anthropological subfields through its focus on understanding human biology, behavior, and evolution within cultural, social, and ecological contexts. Collaborations with the American Museum of Natural History and the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo support the department's wide-ranging research initiatives in biological anthropology.