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The Department of Sociology & Anthropology offers courses and research opportunities geared toward fostering self and societal awareness, as well as an understanding of what it means to be human.

Take courses that provide you with the necessary analytic skills to understand and conduct social research. Be part of research that provides you with opportunities to publish in top professional journals and present at conferences. Our graduates go on to a variety of careers, including medicine, law, marketing, or education.

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Dr Armando Anzellini in his bioarchaeology lab at Lehigh University

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Bioarchaeologist Armando Anzellini Studies Romanian Social Structure with Bones

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Preserving a Sandstone Heritage

LaToya Council, Wellbeing: Marriage, Family, and Gender in the Black Middle Class

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Dr. LaToya Council awarded FRG

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Nov

7

Lecture

What do we owe the ancestors? Legacy Collections and Repatriation in Archaeological Laboratories

Over 30 years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), new regulations have become a catalyst for institutions to invest in NAGPRA programs and initiatives. This has resulted in the hiring of personnel throughout the U.S. that are dedicated to NAGPRA compliance in anthropology departments, laboratories, and museums.

Nov

13

Class/Workshop

Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis (Documentary Screening)

LAS ABOGADAS follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to persuading border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S.

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“I'm learning in my sociology classes how to talk to people and how to understand people rather than just getting a textbook and reading a bunch of information. I'm really getting to understand why people are the way they are and I think that life skill would help me in a million different fields in my future.”

Cate Coffino

Sociology & Health and Medicine and Society Double Major

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Eva Ehrich discusses the connection between anthropology and theatre and the wide-range of student opportunities at Lehigh University.

Eva Ehrich

Anthropology and Economics Double Major

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Marriage and Self Care

Sociology Professor, LaToya Council, studies Black middle-class couples and how stressors shaped by racism and sexism influence work and family life.

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