Graduate Studies
Our graduate program offers courses and research opportunities leading to the M.A. degree. We offer courses in all four subfields of anthropology: physical, cultural, linguistics and archaeology. In addition, we also collaborate with the university to offer an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in museum studies.
Graduate work in anthropology is designed to prepare you for teaching or research in anthropology and for advanced study. Students will either take a coursework based curriculum with comprehensive exams in all four subfields, or a more focused track with research experience leading to a thesis. Students who wish to pursue the thesis option are strongly encouraged to email potential graduate advisors well in advance of the application deadline to discuss available options for research projects.
We are able to offer financial support to some of our Masters students through teaching assistantships, which must be applied for separately from the admission application.
Faculty Accepting Graduate Students
| Name | Specialty |
|---|---|
| Dana Bardolph | Archaeology, Midwestern U.S., Latin America, paleoethnobotany, foodways, gender equity, ethics |
| Giovanni Bennardo | Linguistic anthropology (code switching, conversation analysis, linguistic ideology Cognitive anthropology (cultural models) |
| Mitchell Irwin | Primatology/primate ecology |
| Judy Ledgerwood | Cultural Anthropology, Southeast Asia, Cambodia |
| Emily McKee | Nationalism, environment, farming, regional food systems, Middle East, United States |
| Micah Morton | Cultural anthropology; transnationalism, state-minority relations, social movements, religion and politics, spiritual ecology, ethnicity and nationalism and global Indigeneities in and beyond Southeast Asia and Southwest China |
| Leila Porter | primate behavior/primate ecology |
| Mark Schuller | NGO - Caribbean/Latin America |
| Kendall Thu | Applied, food systems, environment, social justice |
