About the Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology (DA-USP) has sought to cultivate and develop the humanities reflection field dedicated to human diversity. The characteristics of this discipline are reflected in the variety of subjects studied by the teachers and student researchers that integrate it, in the richness of disciplinary interfaces represented in the research lines and groups, in the undergraduate, postgraduate, improvement and extension courses it offers and organizes.
On graduation, he joins the Departments of Political Science and Sociology to graduate bachelors and graduates in Social Sciences, whose professional possibilities are of the most varied, including: teaching at all levels, acting in public and private bodies, research, public policy advice. Already at this stage of formation students can be integrated into research groups, oriented in Scientific Initiation research and encouraged to participate in the organization of events promoted by the Department of Anthropology.

Head of Department: Prof.ª Dra. Marta Rosa Amoroso

Deputy Head of Department: Prof.ª Dra. Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo

EDITAL FFLCH/FLA no 019/2025

NOTICE FFLCH/FLA no. 019/2025

Opening of applications for the public competition of titles and exams aiming at filling 02 (two) positions of professor doctor in the Department of Anthropology, area of ​​Anthropological Theory, of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo. Click to open the Notice.

See also:
https://academica.fflch.usp.br/ppi/doutor

PIBIC, PIBITI and PIBIC-EM 2025_2026 Notices

We inform you that the notices PIBIC, PIBITI and PIBIC-EM, valid from 2025/2026.
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Nota de Pesar - Michel Misse

Note of Condolence - Michel Misse

The Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (PPGAS/USP) express their profound sorrow at the passing of Michel Misse (1951–2025), one of the most important Brazilian sociologists and an international reference in studies on the sociology of crime and violence. A full professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ), and a member of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA/UFRJ), Michel founded and coordinated, until 2023, the Núcleo de Estudos da Cidadania, Conflito e Violência Urbana (Necvu), consolidating a space for critical reflection and academic production of enormous impact. In this moment of immense loss, we express our solidarity with his partner Joana Vargas, his sons André, Daniel and Michel Júnior, his grandchildren, his relatives and friends, his colleagues at IFCS and Necvu, and the broad network of students and supervisees who will continue to be inspired by his intellectual and deeply humane legacy.

The biographical note from SBS, containing details of the professor’s career and biography, follows: https://sbsociologia.com.br/project/michel-misse/