Anthropology Department

A new minor will be available for Western students seeking to study sustainability, which is the ability to preserve economic, environmental and social systems.

Sustainability studies, an environmental studies minor, was created by the WWU Sustainability Academy. The faculty involved meet…

Archaeology: Long hours, hard work and totally worth it.
The Rev. David Cox, interim pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Norfolk, can attest to that.
Before becoming a pastor, Cox studied archaeology at Western Washington University, formerly Western Washington State College.

Western Washington University anthropology professor Judy Pine presented her linguistic perspective on racism in a crash course discussion at the university’s Linguistics Club, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Pine said there is an underlying implicit racism in the English language that people are…

Last summer, a serial story written by six community members pondered what life in Bellingham might be like 100 years from now.

Starting Monday, July 21, a new group of local writers look back in time in a six-part story about Bellingham in the early 1900s.

Andy Buckman's new business is his way of bringing some of the exceptional parts of China to Bellingham.

Buckman recently opened Great Horse Teas on the first floor of the Sycamore Square building at 1200 Harris Ave. Buckman regularly visits farms in several different provinces of…

Western Washington University is looking to become part of a large, international networking organization called Ashoka — an investment company that promotes sustainability.
Anthropology senior lecturer Kathleen Saunders and her research methods class are conducting student interviews this…

Garth Baldwin recently spent three weeks on a small island in the turquoise waters of the Pacific Ocean, but it was no vacation in paradise.

An archaeologist based in Bellingham, he was sifting coral sand for the remains of U.S. Marines and sailors killed during a bloody World War II…