在人类生态学系，我们研究与今天和过去对象的创造、使用和流通有关的社会意义，重点是服装和纺织品。 在学习物质文化时，我们寻求理解人，改善环境，保护和展示文物。 与物质文化研究所的领导一起探讨城乡、地方、国家、国际和历史背景下各种物质的意义。
In the Department of Human Ecology we study social meaning related to the creation, use and circulation of objects today and in the past, with an emphasis on clothing and textiles. In studying material culture we seek to understand people, improve their surroundings, and preserve and exhibit artifacts. Come work with leaders of the Material Culture Institute as they explore the meaning of material goods of all sorts in urban and rural, local, national, and international, and historic contexts.