Join an anthropology field program at Adelphi University.

With programs in Alaska and Mumbai, our field courses are taught by experienced faculty with a student to instructor ratio among the lowest available. Programs available for graduate and undergraduate students.

Our field courses give you practical experience in archaeology, bioarchaeology, scientific illustration or ethnography.

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Hanna H. Kim, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology and Head of Department at Adelphi University in New York. Professor Kim has 3 decades of conducting ethnographic (anthropological fieldwork) research in India, the Gulf States, Great Britain, and North America. Her primary research community, originating in India, is the basis for her longterm fieldwork relationship that has generated numerous publications and established her expertise on fieldwork of local communities and transnational groups. Prof. Kim’s research on the transnational BAPS Swaminarayan community is the basis for the first full-length ethnography of this group, to be published in 2024. All of her research draws attention to the challenge of understanding individuals who share common objectives and visions of how to live in the world.

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Kathryn E. Krasinski, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Food Studies at Adelphi University in New York. She has experience in community-based participatory research, Indigenous archaeology, and ecological anthropology in Alaska, Africa, and on the Falkland Islands. Prof. Krasinski is experienced at applied anthropological research, including research on salmon fishing and storage among Dene societies in southcentral Alaska. She has worked as an archaeologist for the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and is an expert on food systems, human ecology, climate adaptation, cultural resource management, field methods, and zooarchaeology. She has more than 20 years’ experience working in Alaska villages, wilderness, and remote areas where fishing and hunter are important subsistence activities.

Brian T. Wygal, Ph.D. is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Environmental Studies and Sciences program at Adelphi University in New York. Prof. Wygal has more than 20 years’ of experience conducting archaeological expeditions into remote and wilderness areas in Alaska. He has an understanding of various U.S. federal policies and regulations regarding environmental and cultural preservation. He has worked as an archaeologist / anthropologist for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. Prof. Wygal is an expert in environmental archaeology, human ecology, climate adaptation, NAGPRA repatriation, field methods, and geographic information systems (GIS). He has worked with several different indigenous groups from Alaska and the Great Plains.

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