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Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in anthropology or archeology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
- US jobs
- 5,240
- Median wage
- $99,650 a year
- Job family
- Education and social services
Can agents do the work of anthropology and archeology teachers, postsecondary?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Education and social services:
- Task levelUnexploredNo task-level benchmark in our collection tests teaching, counseling, or casework.
- Project levelPartialThin, adjacent evidence only. GDPval, which spans 44 occupations, is the one benchmark in our collection mapped here. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all GDPval occupations. No benchmark tests work with students or clients.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in education and social services, not always this occupation's tasks.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Advise students on academic and vocational curricula, career issues, and laboratory and field research.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as research methods, urban anthropology, and language and culture.
- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and present findings in professional journals, books, electronic media, or at professional conferences.
- Supervise students' laboratory or field work.
- Conduct ethnographic field research.
- Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
Other job titles for this occupation (26)
Anthropology Department Chair · Anthropology Instructor · Anthropology Lecturer · Anthropology Professor · Archaeology Professor · Assistant Professor · Cultural Anthropology Professor · Instructor · Lecturer · Professor · Adjunct Anthropology Instructor · Adjunct Anthropology Lecturer · Adjunct Instructor · Anthropology Adjunct Professor · Anthropology Faculty Member · Archeology Faculty Member · Archeology Instructor · Associate Professor · College Professor · Cultural Anthropology Lecturer · Ethnoarchaeology Professor · Near East Archeology Professor · Paleology Professor · Paleology Teacher · Sociocultural Anthropology Professor · University Faculty Member