 F. W. Hodge (1899–1910)

John R. Swanton (1911)

F. W. Hodge (1912–1914)

Pliny E. Goddard (1915–1920)

John R. Swanton (1921–1923)

Robert H. Lowie (1924–1933)

Leslie Spier (1934–1938)

Ralph Linton (1939–1944)

J. Alden Mason (1945–1948)

Melville J. Herskovits (1949–1952)

Sol Tax (1953–1955)

Walter R. Goldschmidt (1956–1959)

Edward H. Spicer (1960–1962)

George D. Spindler (1963–1966)

Ward H. Goodenough (1967–1970)

Laura Bohannan (1971–1973)

Robert A.Manners (1974–1975)

Richard B. Woodbury (1976–1978)

David L. Olmsted (1979–1981)

H. Russell Bernard (1982–1985)

Thomas C. Greaves (1985–1986)

H. Russell Bernard (1986–1989)

Janet Keller (1990–1993)

Barbara Tedlock & Dennis Tedlock (1993–1997)

Robert Sussman (1998–2001)

Susan Lees & Fran Mascia-Lees (2001–2005)

Ben Blount (2005–2007)

Tom Boellstorff (2007–2012)

Michael Chibnik (2012–2016)

Deborah Thomas (2016–present)
The four main subfields of anthropology include cultural, linguistic, archeology, and biological/physical.Sometimes applied anthropology and public anthropology are added as additional subfields.