Anthropology & Sociology at UTEP

Anthropology & Sociology at UTEP Anthropology & Sociology Department at UTEP The Sociology and Anthropology Department welcomes you. Comments are moderated.

We are committed to excellent teaching and research on social and cultural issues that shape the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, past and present. We are proud of the accomplishments of our students, and we are committed to work to apply social science to the goals of the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region and its people. On our pages, you will find information about our active, engaging BA degrees and minors

in Anthropology and Sociology, and our excellent border-oriented MA degree in Sociology. We ask that our community maintain a civil and respectful level of discourse on our platforms. UTEP may review and remove comments based on UTEP’s social media community policy, available here: https://utepn.ws/community_policy. Contact [email protected] if you believe your comment has been inappropriately removed.*

Congrats to Dr. Angela Frederick! Her book has just won the Eliot Friedson Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Me...
06/02/2026

Congrats to Dr. Angela Frederick! Her book has just won the Eliot Friedson Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.

Enroll in the exciting Fall 2026 elective Culture of the Caribbean with Dr. Victor Vazquez! 🌴🌎Discover the history, cult...
05/20/2026

Enroll in the exciting Fall 2026 elective Culture of the Caribbean with Dr. Victor Vazquez! 🌴🌎

Discover the history, culture, politics, music, and societies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic through an engaging anthropological perspective. Enjoy cool lectures, documentaries, podcasts, films, and audiovisual analysis while exploring the richness and diversity of Caribbean life and traditions.

Don’t miss this unique and culturally enriching course!

Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor (NAIS)Fall 2026 Courses at UTEPThis semester’s featured courses include:• I...
05/06/2026

Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor (NAIS)
Fall 2026 Courses at UTEP

This semester’s featured courses include:

• Indigenous Cultures of North America
• Native American Women’s Health
• Popular Archeology
• Material Culture and Museums
• Religion & Culture
• Feminisms of the 1960s & 70s
• Nahuatl 1: Language as Resistance
• Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture

For more information:
Dr. Olga Lauter — [email protected]

Religion & Culture for Fall 2026This course explores the complex interplay between religion and culture across diverse s...
05/06/2026

Religion & Culture for Fall 2026

This course explores the complex interplay between religion and culture across diverse societies and historical periods. Through readings and discussions grounded in anthropology, sociology, history, and religious studies, the course investigates how religious ideas, practices, and institutions influence and are influenced by cultural traditions, identities, and perspectives.

Course Listings:

ANTH 3301 / 17948
SOCI 3301 / 17497
RS 3350 / 17953
WS 3351 / 18302
NAIS 4350 / 17531

Dr. Olga Lauter

T R (Tuesday & Thursday)
12:00 PM – 1:20 PM

Congratulations to Dr. Victor Vázquez and co-author Dr. Howard Campbell on their new peer-reviewed publication! 🎉Based o...
04/27/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Victor Vázquez and co-author Dr. Howard Campbell on their new peer-reviewed publication! 🎉

Based on his recent fieldwork conducted during his sabbatical semester in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, this work highlights scholarship that bridges the Caribbean and the borderlands.

¡Felicidades!

👉https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/04/24/structural-consequences-of-economic-crisis-and-us-militarization-in-the-caribbean-drug-scarcity-crime-escalation-and-narco-entrepreneurship-in-puerto-rico/

Hello Miners! 🌍Register today for World Culture (ANTH 1302) with Dr. Vázquez — Summer I Online 2026 (June 8 – July 3). T...
04/15/2026

Hello Miners! 🌍

Register today for World Culture (ANTH 1302) with Dr. Vázquez — Summer I Online 2026 (June 8 – July 3). This is an engaging, flexible, and eye-opening online course.

📩 For more information: [email protected]

Thank you so much for your support

Join us! April 16, 4-6 pm in centennial museum!
04/09/2026

Join us!

April 16, 4-6 pm in centennial museum!

Congratulations to Oscar Bueno Carbajal, our Sociology PhD ,student, has received an award from the International Sociol...
04/07/2026

Congratulations to Oscar Bueno Carbajal, our Sociology PhD ,student, has received an award from the International Sociology Association (ISA) research committee on social movements, collective action, and social change to attend a Summer Retreat in Tijuana in August

Congrats Heidi!Heidi Baca has been accepted to work on a Sansera Archaeological Institute field school project. She will...
04/02/2026

Congrats Heidi!

Heidi Baca has been accepted to work on a Sansera Archaeological Institute field school project. She will be part of the biological archaeology program working on a Roman burial site in Spain.

Congrats Maxine!Maxine Trujillo is one of only two students from the US who has been hired as a summer intern by the Cle...
04/02/2026

Congrats Maxine!

Maxine Trujillo is one of only two students from the US who has been hired as a summer intern by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. She will be joining a project excavating a cave site in Kenya containing Upper Paleolithic, Pastoral Neolithic and Iron Age occupations. The fieldwork will be followed by a month of laboratory analysis in Cleveland.

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