Sociology Anthropology Sociology Anthropology
The SoAn Department emphasizes close student-faculty relations and
collaboration in research and social practice. The Linfield
Anthropology Museum provides hands-on training in exhibit design,
installation, registration, and artifact conservation; the annual
Summer Archaeology Field School provides fieldwork in historic and
prehistoric archaeology at various sites; other student-faculty
collaborative research projects have focused on local Hispanic and
migrant communities, homeless and other underserved local populations,
disaster research, race/gender and differential academic achievement,
non-timber resource utilization in northwest forests, people coping
with Celiac Disease, rural electrification in the Andes, and Century
Farms and sustainable agriculture. Sociology and Anthropology faculty
and students actively participate in Linfield’s International Studies,
Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies Programs. Departmental
faculty and students are especially active with Linfield’s strong
International Studies program, which includes a dozen semester programs
as well as rotating January term and summer courses on site in
Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico, New Orleans, Taiwan and
elsewhere. Departmental majors frequently present papers based on
independent and collaborative research at regional academic conferences
as well as an annual on-campus academic poster session.