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Portland State University's Anthropology Department. The department is also part of the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs.

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.

10/20/2026

09/23/2026

All are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you there.

06/09/2026

Graduation is upon us! Shout out to our new graduates in putting in all the hard work to get there. We look forward to seeing what great things you get into.

(Pictured: a few of our newly minted anthropology graduates with faculty at the SEES end of year celebration.)

05/12/2026

We are looking forward to another great Archaeology Roadshow in Portland!

05/08/2026

Join us for another great opportunity to connect!

04/22/2026

We are happy to announce a new publication by our anthropology faculty, Kate Barcalow () and Shelby Anderson (.archaeology)! The research helped shape our curriculum, is informative for the CRM community, and speaks to the broader discussion on the role of colleges in career development.

Check out their open source article in Advanced in Archaeological Practice at: doi:10.1017/aap.2025.10135

04/19/2026

Another successful workshop in the books! Thanks to David Banis in Geography and Kate () in Anthropology for co-facilitating.

04/07/2026

We are having another gathering! Join us for a great opportunity to socialize with students, faculty, and community partners connected to SEES academic areas (Anthropology, Complex Systems, ESM, Geography, and Geology).

04/03/2026

We are teaming up with Geography for an interactive workshop on the basics of community mapping. This is a free event, and all are welcome!

Register through the QR code or at https://bit.ly/CommunityMapping2026

03/26/2026

Thanks to Randal and Brad for facilitating two amazing workshops this past winter quarter!

Keep your eye out for more workshops this coming spring quarter...

Address

1721 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
97201

Telephone

+15037253081

Website

https://www.pdx.edu/anthropology/

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