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All Stanford University undergraduate majors are eligible to apply for the coterminal master’s degree program with a 3.5 GPA in their department major, a 3.0 GPA in overall coursework, and with no more than one Incomplete listed on the transcript at the time of application. The Coterminal M.A. degree program allows Stanford undergraduates to study for a master’s degree while completing their bachelor’s degree(s) in the same or different department. Undergraduates with strong academic records may apply for admission to a coterminal master’s program upon completion of 120 units but no later than the quarter prior to the expected completion of the undergraduate degree. Full-time enrollment during Summer Quarters, as well as allowable undergraduate transfer credit, are also counted towards quarters of undergraduate study.

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The Ph.D. program allows the student to develop a flexible program reflecting special research interests, under the supervision of a faculty committee chosen by the student. Students are encouraged to plan for completion of all work for the Ph.D. in five years.

Ph.D. students in Anthropology must complete a minimum of 135 quarter units with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B). The maximum allowable number of transfer units is 45. The typical time to degree is approximately 6 years, although it is quite possible to complete all the requirements in 5 years. A typical schedule is as follows:

For additional information please see the  Stanford University Bulletin  and the  department graduate program webpage .

• Years 1 and 2 – coursework and teaching assistance,
• Year 3 – qualifying exams and research proposal,
• Year 4 – approved dissertation research, typically in the field,
• Years 5 and 6 – research, analysis, data collection, write-up, teaching assistance and oral examination – Dissertation defense.

Culture and Society, and Archaeology are the two tracks of specialization in the doctoral program. Within these tracks, students may explore a range of fields of study including medical anthropology and ecological and environmental anthropology. Examples of the varying  faculty  and  student  areas of study can be found in their respective profiles online. Although, the tracks are informal and at the department-level, only, they are an important way for the department to identify the student’s developing research.

The department faculty and their research interests are listed online at  Anthropology Faculty . Current PhD students in the Department of Anthropology may be contacted by visiting  Anthropology Graduate Students .

Current PhD students in the Department of Anthropology may be contacted by visiting  Anthropology Graduate Students .

PhD students must submit a plan for oral and reading proficiency for successful scholarship in a given field by the end of spring quarter of their Second Year. The chosen language may be related to field research or scholarly work.

The department requires one quarter of Teaching Assistantship in the Second Year and one or more quarters of Teaching Assistantship in the Second through the Fifth Years. The department requires students in the Second Year cohort to attend a Teaching Assistantship Training workshop at the beginning of the academic year.

After at least one quarter of enrollment in the first year, students pursuing a PhD may apply for transfer credit for up to 45 units of graduate work done at another institution. Doing so will not necessarily escalated the time to degree completion.

After accepting admission to this coterminal master’s degree program, students may request transfer of courses from the undergraduate to the graduate career to satisfy requirements for the master’s degree. Transfer of courses to the graduate career requires review and approval of both the undergraduate and graduate programs on a case by case basis.

Courses taken two quarters prior to the first graduate quarter, or later, are eligible for consideration for transfer to the graduate career. No courses taken prior to the first quarter of the sophomore year may be used to meet master’s degree requirements.

Course transfers are not possible after the bachelor’s degree has been conferred. Please be advised that admitted students must have at least one quarter of overlap with both the undergraduate and graduate careers prior to conferral of the undergraduate degree.

No, applicants to the PhD program are not required to have an MA before applying to the PhD program. Less than one third of an entering PhD cohort will have obtained a masters degree.

No, applicants are not required to have an Anthropology background. However, a background in the behavioral/ and or social sciences would be expected. In addition, the applicant would be expected to have a foundation in social science theory and the ability to do analysis in the social sciences.

Please refer to the  University Bulletin ,  Department  website , and  Registrars Office of Graduate Admissions  website for more information. Contact information for graduate students including a description of their topic and area(s) of interest is also available at the Department website under  Graduate Students .

The Department of Anthropology offers five years of graduate funding (based on the availability of funds) for the PhD program, through a combination of fellowships and assistantships, covering full tuition and a living stipend. The fellowships are usually given for five consecutive years of graduate study. 

Although, departmental funding support is sometimes referred to as ‘Financial Aid’ this funding is distinct from federal or other funding sources that an individual student may apply for through the  Financial Aid  office of Stanford University. Department funding support for PhD students is funding provided from the School of Humanities and Sciences by way of the Department for the purpose of supporting the PhD student’s tuition, living expenses, as well academic and research expenses throughout the PhD degree program.

Stanford is on the Quarter system. For more information about Stanford’s schedule, please go to the  Stanford Academic Calendar  published by the Office of the Registrar.

Information about current Anthropology course offerings can be found on our Department website under  Courses  and in  Stanford Bulletin Explore Courses .

For information about the department’s Graduate degree programs, please review the information located on the  Department webpages .

Information about campus housing for graduate students can be found on  Stanford’s Student Housing  website.

Information about the estimated cost of living at Stanford as a graduate student can be found on  The Student Budget  website. Remember that this is only an estimate and actual expenses may be different.

Information about sources of Graduate student funding can be found at the  Vice Provost for Graduate Education webpages .

The tuition and fees information for the current academic year are located at  the University Registrar webpages .

Please review the information detailed on the  department webpages .

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For matriculation in the Fall of 2024, the Department of Anthropology at Harvard will be accepting PhD applications for the  Archaeology program only . Applications for the PhD in Social Anthropology, including for the MD-PhD program, as well as for the AM in Medical Anthropology will not be accepted. The temporary pause on graduate-level Social Anthropology admissions is due to limited advising capacity among departmental faculty.

Admissions decisions.

Decisions on admission are made by a faculty committee. The graduate admissions committee selects well-qualified applicants who represent a range of interests and backgrounds to form a diverse cohort. The committee reads and evaluates all applications and consults with other departmental faculty on areas of specific theoretical, topical, or regional expertise. There is no automatic allocation of slots in the program for specific areas. The committee also attempts to balance advising loads and priorities across the members of core departmental faculty who are actively engaged in graduate training.

Admissions Numbers 

The Anthropology Ph.D. program receives over 300 applications each year, of which only 1-2% lead to offers of admission. Each year the program receives many more applications than we can possibly accept and with great regret must turn down many very well qualified candidates. The number of students we can admit each year is determined by the Dean of theHarvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We do not learn the final number of admissions until March of each year.  

Statement of Purpose

A statement of purpose is not a biographical narrative. A persuasive statement of purpose (1) clearly describes the applicant’s proposed areas of research; (2) justifies the applicant’s research interests in terms of the relevant existing scholarship, the applicant’s personal intellectual motivation, and the applicant’s background and/or training; (3) explains why the Anthropology faculty and curriculum at Harvard are ideal for supporting the applicant’s training and research. We strongly encourage applicants to read the publications of the faculty they are applying to work with. A clear connection with faculty research and teaching is the best gauge of an applicant’s potential “fit” with the Department.

Personal Statement

A core part of the Harvard Griffin GSAS mission is to identify and attract the most promising students to form a dynamic and diverse community. We are committed to educating individuals who reflect the growing diversity of perspectives and life experiences represented in society today and who will contribute to our commitment to sustain a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment. Please share how your experiences or activities will advance our mission and commitment. Your statement should be no longer than 500 words.

Writing Samples 

The admissions committee pays particularly close attention to the writing samples submitted by applicants. Applicants should carefully select an example of your best academic writing that demonstrates your capacity for rigorous analysis and independent work. It is not essential that the writing sample be directly related to the topics or areas that you are proposing to study in the future.

Letters of Recommendation 

All letters of recommendation are due at the same time as the application. Applicants must provide the email addresses for three recommenders when you apply.  Harvard Griffin GSAS requires your recommenders submit their letters via an online recommendation system. We are unable to accept letters submitted through a recommendation dossier service.  

All students admitted to the PhD programs in Archaeology and Social Anthropology receive five years of full funding which includes four years of summer research funding. Typically, the first two years of graduate study are fully funded (tuition, health insurance and stipend), during the third and fourth years, tuition and health insurance are covered and students receive their stipend via teaching fellowships. Full funding (tuition, health insurance and stipend) is also provided during the dissertation completion year. Students are expected to obtain external funding for their field research. For more information on funding and aid, please refer to the Harvard Griffin GSAS Funding webpage .

Language Proficiency 

Prior preparation in languages related to an applicant’s intended area or areas of specialization is advantageous. Current language abilities should be explained in the application essay. Students in the graduate program are required to demonstrate that they have sufficient abilities for research in both a language they will use for conducting fieldwork and in a language in which there is a body of anthropological writing relevant to their proposed research.

Test Scores

• GRE Scores - Not Accepted  
• English Proficiency - Required (may not be waived) 

TOEFL or IELTS examinations are required of all applicants whose native language is not English or who have not received a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university where the primary language of instruction is English; a master's degree is not accepted as proof of English proficiency. The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences sets the regulation that "a minimum score of 80 on the Internet based test (IBT) on the TOEFL i or a minimum score of 6.5 on the IELTS is required for consideration by the Graduate School." We will not waive this requirement.  

Applicants who took tests more than two years ago (i.e. before September 1, 2021, for fall 2023 admission) must retake them. No test other than the iBT TOEFL , TOEFL Home Edition, IELTS Academic, or IELTS Indicator will be accepted as proof of English proficiency; a master’s degree is not accepted as proof of English proficiency.  For more information on sending TOEFL/IELTS scores, please refer to the Harvard Griffin GSAS Admissions Webpage .

Faculty Research Interests

Potential applicants who have substantive questions about the research interests of faculty and/or their own preparation and background for graduate study at Harvard may write directly to faculty members with whom they believe they share interests. 

Please be aware, however, that because of the high volume of inquiries about the program and the large number of applicants, it may not always be possible for faculty to fully answer all inquiries. 

Retired, Affiliated, and Visiting Faculty

Retired faculty (emeritus and emerita professors) do not normally teach courses nor are they involved in training new graduate students. Student should not apply with the intention of studying with retired faculty.  

Although we encourage our students to work and take courses with faculty from across the university, applicants should not list visiting faculty, faculty affiliates, lecturers, or college fellows as faculty of interest in their applications. 

As part of the admissions process, the admissions committee invites semi-finalists for a virtual interview. There is no other interview. 

Visiting the Department 

Potential applicants may visit Harvard prior to submitting an application, but it is not necessary. Applicants considering a visit to campus should make arrangements well in advance. 

Individual faculty members handle their own calendars and appointments, so a visitor should contact faculty members directly to arrange appointments. 

Application Information 

The deadline to apply for Fall 2024 is December 1, 2023. Late applications will not be accepted. 

How to Apply

All application materials and instructions are available on the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website . Most questions can be answered on the Harvard Griffin GSAS website or the information below. Additional questions about applying to the Ph.D. program in Anthropology should be sent to [email protected] .  When applying to the Ph.D. program in the Anthropology Department, you must upload all supporting documents to your online application prior to submission - do not send any materials to the Anthropology Department. 

A completed application consists of the following:

• Admissions Form (submitted online)
• Statement of Purpose (not to exceed 1000 words)
• Personal Statement (not to exceed 500 words)
• A copy of you transcript from each college/university attended
• Writing sample that should not exceed 20 pages (double-spaced), not including bibliography; do not send a longer sample with instructions to read a particular section
• Three letters of recommendation (must be submitted via the link provided. Do not send hard copies and we are unable to accept letters via dossier services)
• Recent TOEFL and/or IELTS scores  (if required). If you are unsure, please refer to the Harvard Griffin GSAS Admissions website

A previous background of study in anthropology is not a prerequistite for admissions. However, successful candidates, whether they have studied anthropology previously or not, must be able to state clearly their interests in anthropology and demonstrate familiarity with intellectual issues in current anthropological theory and method. 

Harvard Griffin GSAS does not discriminate against applicants or students on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry or any other protected classification.

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Ph.d. program.

Our doctoral program offers students solid training in theory, contemporary research methods, and proposal writing with the aim of enabling students to develop an anthropology sensitive to the challenges and complexities of human experience and of our times.

Two PhD Tracks

Students have the option, with permission of the dissertation committee advisor, of leaving for the field after five or after six semesters. If they leave after five semesters, they will take 15 courses in total (three per semester) and convene their committee for a Portfolio workshop in December of that fifth semester. At the workshop they will discuss their grant proposals, three annotated reading lists (with 25 citations each), and a course syllabus (for a class to be taught in the future). If they leave after six semesters, they will take 18 courses in total (three per semester) and convene their committee for a Portfolio workshop in April of their sixth semester. At the workshop they will discuss their grant proposals, three annotated reading lists (with 35 citations each), and a course syllabus (for a class they will teach in the future).

If students receive external funding for fieldwork, they can spend a year and a half in the field (with one semester covered by the department and two by their grant). If they do not receive external funding, they will remain in the field for one year (with the one year covered by the department).

Funding (tuition, fees and stipend) for each student is guaranteed for five years, or five and an half for those who receive external funding for their fieldwork. The department is not responsible for the financial support of those who do not finish within these time frames, but will work closely with each student who does not finish to find external funding to cover continuation fees, health insurance, and stipends.

Students who choose the 3-year (six-semester) plan are required to take 18 graded courses. The program’s required courses (two semesters of Theories, Fieldwork Methods, and Grant Writing) comprise four of these 18. An additional six courses must be graduate seminars with primary faculty in Cultural Anthropology. Two of the 18 courses must be in a discipline outside Cultural Anthropology. A student on this plan may take a maximum of five independent studies. 

Students who choose the 2.5-year (five-semester) plan take 15 graded courses. The program’s required courses (two semesters of Theories, Fieldwork Methods, and Grant Writing) comprise four of these 15. An additional five courses must be graduate seminars with primary faculty in Cultural Anthropology, but the department strongly encourages taking six. Under exceptional circumstances, and with support of their committee chair, students on the 2.5-year plan may petition the DGS to allow 8 courses with primary faculty. Two of the 15 courses must be in a discipline outside Cultural Anthropology. A student on this plan may take a maximum of three independent studies.

Students on either plan have the option to take up to two graduate seminars in Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. These may be counted towards the required courses with primary faculty in Cultural Anthropology.

Required Courses

• Theories:  The two-semester Theories course (CULANTH 801-802), taken in Fall and Spring of the first year, focuses on core debates and themes within the history of socio-cultural anthropology and related fields.
• Research Methods:  The Research Methods seminar (CULANTH 803), taken in the Spring of the second year, focuses on ethnographic methods, grant writing, and reading list annotation.
• Grant Writing:  The Grant Writing seminar (CULANTH 804), taken in the Fall of the third year (the fifth semester), focuses on the development of grant proposals for dissertation research support.

Other Requirements

• Plan of Study
• Portfolio of Work
• Foreign Language Requirement
• Research or Teaching Service
• Summer Field Research
• Department Colloquia
• Dissertation

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External Funding

Entering students are strongly encouraged to apply for additional external funding to support their time at Brown, such as the  National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship .

Third-year students pursue external funding to support their upcoming dissertation fieldwork. Faculty provide advice and mentorship to students as they apply for these funds. Some of these opportunities can be found on a   student-generated list  (you must have a Brown email to access this list). Others can be accessed through the  Graduate School’s list of external funding opportunities .

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  The department actively encourages students to pursue educational assistance.

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There is a significant difference between Hawaiʻi resident and nonresident tuition rates. Visit the Office of Admissions Hawaiʻi Residency Requirements for information on the process of acquiring resident status.

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Achievement scholarships.

Each semester, the department is allocated a certain amount of funds designated for students who demonstrate a high level of academic excellence. Awards are based on merit, need, service, achievement, or reflect the University’s mission. Award amounts may vary and are based on the awardee’s tuition cost (residency status and credit load).

Eligibility:

• Students must be in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 3.5.
• Students must be a classified graduate student in an Anthropology degree program.
• Students may have resident and non-resident status.
• Awards become available for incoming students during their second semester.
• Eligibility is ongoing for continuing students. Students may reapply.
• There is no limit to how many semesters a student can receive the award.
• Tuition, fees, books, and course materials costs can be covered.
• The award may be given in addition to a TA/GAship (tuition exemption).

Application deadline:

• March 15 and November 15, every year.
• Award total will appear in the Financial Aid account on MYUH by August (for the Fall semester) or December (for the Spring semester). Failing to pay the remainder of your tuition by the payment deadline will result in cancellation of registration.
• Should the student that is chosen not meet the criteria above, the scholarship will be denied.
• Interested students should apply through the online Achievement Scholarship Application (UH login required).

Graduate Student Travel Award

The department makes travel awards available to graduate students presenting a paper at a recognized national or international meeting. Up to ten awards, in the amount of up to $1000 each (contingent upon the availability of funds) will become available for Fall and Spring semesters. Awards are competitive and may be applied retroactively.

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• Priority given to students who have not traveled on Department funds during the previous year.
• Priority given to applications partially supported by other sources of funds.
• Students are eligible to receive Department travel funds once per academic year.
• Funding decisions will be conveyed by the end of each month.
• Funding decisions are based on quality of the proposal, adherence to the application guidelines, faculty letter of support, and significance of the conference and paper for the student's progress in their degree program.
• Interested students should apply through the online  Graduate Student Travel Award Application (UH login required).
• Applicants should direct their faculty letter writer to submit their letter via the Department of Anthropology - Letter of Recommendation Form . 

Completion:

• Upon completion of travel, students granted awards will be required to submit a copy of their paper/presentation, receipts covering the amount of the award, and a statement indicating other sources of travel support.

Anthropology Dissertation Research Support Award

This award is given to PhD Candidates at the All But Dissertation (ABD) stage to help fund research, travel, and other expenses related to the completion of their dissertation research. Up to two (2) awards of $2,500 each will be made annually, pending the availability of funds.

• Applicants must have convened their graduate committee, have completed all coursework and comprehensive exams, and have successfully defended their departmental research proposal.
• To apply, students should submit a letter of support from their faculty advisor, a copy of their most recent student progress report, and a letter of intent that includes: 1) the aim and importance of the activities proposed; 2) an itemized budget of travel and other costs associated with these activities; and 3) a list of previous, current, and pending sources of research funding.
• Application materials should be submitted to the Graduate Specialist, Saunders 346C.
• Students may only receive this award once during their graduate studies in the department.

Students seeking support for pre-dissertation field research should consider applying for a Richard W. Lieban Endowed Scholarship instead.

Anthropology Dissertation Writing Support Award

This award is given to PhD Candidates who have completed fieldwork and are currently writing their dissertations. Up to two (2) awards of $2,500 each will be made annually, pending the availability of funds.

• Students of superior academic merit with a GPA of 3.5 or more are encouraged to apply.
• These awards are intended to help offset living expenses incurred by All But Dissertation (ABD) students during the summer months when GA-ships and other forms of departmental support are in limited supply.
• To apply, students should submit a letter of request, a copy of their most recent student progress report, and a letter of support from their faculty advisor.

Richard W. Lieban Endowed Scholarship for Anthropology

Contingent on funds availability, funding of up to $10,000 is awarded each year from the Richard W. Lieban Endowed Scholarship for Anthropology to support the research work of MA students and PhD students progressing toward completion of their degree.

A total of $5000 is allocated to each degree program, and no single award to any student will be over $2500.

MA Awards. Given to support summer research and may include expenses related to fieldwork, analysis of collections, archival research, etc.

PhD Awards. Given to support research at the proposal preparation or dissertation write-up stages. Pre-dissertation research awards are to support the preparation of proposals for extramural funding. Dissertation write-up awards are to support writing that follows the collection of data in PhD research. The criteria emphasize pre-professional activities such as fieldwork, lab work, grants, publications, and presentations at meetings.

The awards committee will not be asked to judge the relative merits of the MA or PhD projects.

• Minimum 3.5 GPA.
• Students may only receive this award once in the MA program and once in the PhD program.

Application Deadline:

• April 20, each year
• Apply online (UH login required)

GA Teaching Assistantships and Apprenticeships

Each year several Graduate Assistantships (GAs) are made available to the Department of Anthropology. The Department divides the GAs it receives in two types: Teaching Assistantships and Teaching Apprenticeships. GAs of either type are required to work 20 hours per week. GAs receive full tuition waivers and health insurance benefits at cost. The duties of Teaching Assistantships and Apprenticeships are similar and include assisting faculty with course grading, record keeping, break-out sections, some lecturing, and student consultation. GAs are competitive and in any given year we receive many more qualified applicants than there are awards available. To be eligible, all GAs must demonstrate a satisfactory academic record, an adequate undergraduate background in your major subfield, and, in the case of foreign students, evidence of a high level of English language proficiency. No applicant may hold comparable or equivalent grants or awards providing a tuition waiver from other University sources or the East-West Center during the same period. Appointees must carry at least 6 units of credits per semester and maintain at least a B (3.0) average.

The University and Department of Anthropology are Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) employers. Appropriate EEO and AA criteria are utilized in all selection and hiring processes.

Teaching Assistantships (advertised)

Awarded each year on a competitive basis by the Department’s Awards Committee. We currently have 7 permanent and 2 temporary Teaching Assistantships. The number of such assistantships varies from year to year. The maximum length of appointment, subject to satisfactory performance and/or the availability of funds, is 2 years for MA students, and 3 years for PhD students, with a maximum tenure of 3 years. Teaching Assistantships are assigned to a faculty member to assist with a particular introductory level or upper-division course. Completed applications are accepted online (UH login required) by the closing dates announced when there is a call for applications. Applications should include a completed application form, three letters of recommendation from recent instructors, and an annual progress report.

Applications are being accepted for up to five (5) regular GA positions, pending position clearance, for the upcoming academic year.

Applicants should direct their three letter writer to submit their letters via the Department of Anthropology - Letter of Recommendation Form . 

Monthly Salary (half time):

• $1,996 MA level ($23,952 annually)
• $2,159 PhD level ($25,908 annually)
• Assist in upper division courses and/or ANTH 151 and 152 and/or 215/215L.
• TAs assigned to 151 and 152 are expected to lead discussion sections.
• TAs assigned to 215/215L are expected to run 215 labs.

The application will be ranked according to Minimum and Desirable Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Academic excellence
• Evidence of timely progress in the program
• Full-time graduate student in anthropology

Desirable Qualifications:

• Sufficient background in both cultural and archaeology (for 151 and 152 TAs)
• Sufficient training in biological or physical anthropology (for 215/215L TAs)
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Undergraduate-level teaching experience
• Faculty recommendations reflect academic excellence

Conditions:

• Applicants must submit a complete application form to be reviewed by the Awards Committee. In addition, three current letters of recommendation from faculty, a current CV, and an annual progress report must be submitted.
• If applying for the academic year, students not awarded a Teaching Assistant (TA) position in the fall will be included in the spring semester applicants for any spring semester vacancies. 
• Applications for temporary positions do not go into the department pool. A new application is required when any position is advertised.
• TA positions are appointed on a year-to-year basis. Appointments beginning in the spring semester are made for the spring only and may be renewed for one year beginning August 1 upon satisfactory performance. The maximum length of appointment, subject to satisfactory performance and/or availability of funds, is two years for MA students and three years for PhD students with a maximum tenure of three years.
• Students may not defer their appointment. If they submit an application and are selected, then decide to take a leave of absence, they must resign and re-apply the next time recruitment is advertised.
• Candidates must review the requirements of the Graduate Division for Teaching Assistants, which includes mandatory training before the semester begins. Candidates are responsible for reviewing all information related to the position as posted on the Graduate Division website .
• Specific instructional needs of the department are also taken into consideration in appointing new TAs. For example, if a TA is needed to teach a course in a specific anthropology subfield, the applicant’s academic training will be taken into consideration.
• TAs hired with a .50 FTE appointment will qualify for a 100% tuition exemption, which does not include student fees, if they are employed for at least 12 weeks of the semester as defined by Graduate Division. TAs who resign before the 12-week minimum employment will be responsible for paying their full tuition. TAs who cannot fulfill their duties for the duration of the semester, must resign and have their salary prorated based on the number of days worked.

Closing Date:

• Continuous Recruitment.
• Priority will be given to applications received by May 31 of every year.
• Apply online (UH login required).

Teaching Apprenticeships (not advertised)

Available only to newly admitted graduate students. No more than 2 or 3 Teaching Apprenticeships are available each year. All newly admitted students are automatically considered for a Teaching Apprenticeship by the Department’s Awards Committee; no additional application is required. Teaching Apprenticeships pay the same as Teaching Assistantships and have the same tuition waiver and medical benefits. Teaching Apprentices are assigned to a faculty member to assist with a particular introductory level course. Teaching Apprenticeships may be appointed for a maximum of two years and may subsequently apply for Teaching Assistantships.

The Ben Finney Voyager of Pacific Anthropology Award

Ben Finney was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa from 1970 until 2000. In the mid-1960s he built a replica of a Hawaiian double canoe to generate basic information on sailing performance. The success of this project helped inspire plans for Hokule‘a's first voyage to Tahiti. Finney co-founded the Polynesian Voyaging Society, served as its first president and sailed aboard Hokule‘a during the first voyage to Tahiti in 1976, the 1985 voyage to Aotearoa, and the 1992 voyage to Rarotonga.

Availability

The Ben  Finney Voyager of Pacific Anthropology Award is available to graduate students (PhD and MA) developing a field or lab research project in the field of Pacific anthropology. This is a proof of concept award intended for students in the early stages of developing their research. The goal of the award is to allow students to demonstrate that their proposed project is feasible, or to prove that it has practical potential.

Eligibility

Recipients must be enrolled full-time or part-time as graduate students working in areas of Pacific anthropology (all inclusive) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Priority will be given to early-stage research focused on Hawai‘i, French Polynesia and/or Pacific voyaging. The funding is not meant to supplement other larger awards (e.g. NSF). A recipient's project may be associated with other research, such as that conducted by another graduate student or a professor at UH-M or a different institution. However, in this case the recipient must demonstrate that their work is unique in the sense that it has its own goals, methodology and questions. Most importantly, the recipient must be leading and responsible for their own project within a project.

Number and Amount of Awards

Ordinarily, two grants will be awarded, each in the range of $1,000 - $2,500. The number and amount of awards shall be determined by the selection committee based on the availability of funds.  

Award Fund Use

The funds should be spent on travel (domestic or foreign) and research expenses. If the project involves travel, it should be planned for Summer 2022. The grant does not support permanent equipment such as cameras. Please note that award funds are considered to be taxable income. The following information is required for your funding request to be considered: 

• Applicants must complete the Finney Award Application, which summarizes their proposal. Please complete all information requested on the application, and obtain the required signature of the applicant’s committee chairperson or dissertation/thesis advisor.
• Attach a brief statement (no more than 750 words) describing the intended use of the funding and include an itemized budget. In your proposal, please include destination, dates of travel, and purpose.

Any change in the scope or budget of the project after submission should be reported immediately to the department office.

Requirements

If funding is awarded to you, a summary (250 words) of your research must be submitted to the department office within 90 days of the completion of your project. In addition, a letter thanking the donor and explaining the significance of the award to you must be sent to the donor within 90 days of the completion of your project.

Selection Process

Recipients shall be selected by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Anthropology Department.

Submit completed applications by email to Marti Kerton ( [email protected] )

• Applications Accepted: February 1 through March 1
• Decisions Announced: March 31

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The Anthropology Department provides five years of funding for graduate students in the PhD program. Funding beyond the five years and for summer fieldwork can be obtained through university sources or external sources. Below is a starter list of links to funding opportunities.

University Funding Opportunities

• Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
• Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality
• Program in Latin America Studies
• Program in Jewish Studies
• Research funding at the Krieger School
• University Writing Program

External Funding Opportunities

• American Anthropological Association Fellowships
• American Institute of Bangladesh Studies
• American Institute of Indian Studies
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program
• Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation
• Ford Foundation Fellowships
• IIE Fulbright
• International Research and Exchange Board
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Spencer Foundation
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation
• Whiting Foundation

There are a number of ways to help finance your graduate education at the University of Texas at Austin. There are Graduate Fellowships offered through the Office of Graduate Studies, departmental awards, non-UT grants and fellowships, and of course, federal aid. In the cases of Graduate Fellowships and departmental awards, all decisions are made by the Admissions Committee at the time of admissions. All applicants who are being considered for admission will automatically be considered for these fellowships. No separate applications are required, unless noted.

Graduate Fellowships

Brief descriptions of available fellowships are below.  Please see the Graduate School site for more information.

Graduate School Recruitment Fellowships

These fellowships are prestigious awards offered by the Graduate School to attract top quality graduate students to UT-Austin. 

Award: In most cases, a $36,000, 12-month stipend, health insurance assistance and a tuition assistance benefit.

Harrington Graduate Fellowships

These fellowships are awarded on the basis of scholastic record and outstanding human qualities; including academic performance, character, and leadership. Harrington Doctoral Fellowships are awarded to entering graduate students admitted to a program leading to a doctoral degree at UT Austin. Doctoral Fellowships range from one-year to three-year awards. A Harrington Doctoral Fellow can earn a Master's Degree in the process of completing the doctoral work.

Stipend: Fellowships, including a stipend between $45,000-$50,000 for 12 months, tuition and required fees, an allowance for student medical insurance, and $2,000 for miscellaneous expenses, are awarded annually to the most highly qualified applicants or nominees. For more information, please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Harrington Fellows web page .

Departmental Awards

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Rhonda L. Andrews Memorial Award

Rhonda Andrews was an anthropologist who specialized in the curation and analysis of perishable materials such as basketry and textiles. She analyzed fragile materials from such famous archaeological sites as Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Antelope House in Canyon de Chelly, Walpi, Jarmo, Nan Ranch and Hinds Cave.

In 1996 Basil and Joyce Andrews established a fellowship in the department honoring the memory of their daughter, Rhonda L. Andrews. The Rhonda L. Andrews Memorial Award is intended to support graduate students in Anthropology who have completed research and are at the stage of writing their dissertations. The Memorial Award is $2,000.

Past Recipients:

• 2021-22: Fatemeh Ghaheri
• 2020-21: Ingrid Lundeen
• 2019-20: Deina Rabie
• 2018-19: Noe Lopez
• 2017-18: Amely Branquinho Martins
• 2016-17: Alejandro Manuel Flores Aguilar
• 2015-16: Jaime Mata-Miguez
• 2014-15: Claudia Chavez Arguelles
• 2013-14: Katherine Bannar-Martin 
• 2012-13: Saikat Maitra
• 2011-12: Sandra Canas
• 2010-11: Halide Velioglu
• 2009-10: David Hyde
• 2008-09: Shawn Marceaux
• 2007-08: Lidia Marte
• 2006-07: Mieke Maria Curtis
• 2005-06: Gene Mirus
• 2004-05: Brandt Peterson
• 2003-04: Benjamin T. Chappell
• 2002-03: Apen Ruiz
• 2001-02: Rachel Meyer
• 2000-01: Stephanie May
• 1999-00: Calla Jacobson
• 1998-99: Susan Lepselter
• 1997-98: Kenneth Brown

Peyton and Douglas Wright Fellowship

Peyton Wright was a graduate of the department of Anthropology and a professional archaeologist. In his memory, his family and friends established a fellowship program in 1998 to aid other students in completing their graduate work in Archaeology.

This is a $2000 award intended to allow archaeology graduate students to undertake a research project leading to the Masters or PhD degrees. The purpose of this fellowship is to provide support for specific scholarly investigative projects. The fellowship is intended to cover costs associated with research projects.

Past Recipients

• 2021-22: Anya Gruber
• 2020-21: Fatemeh Ghaheri
• 2019-20: Nicole Payntar & John Duncan Hurt
• 2018-19: Camille D.S. Weinberg
• 2017-18: Elizabeth M De Marigny
• 2016-17: Jordan D Bowers
• 2015-16: Jinok Lee
• 2014-15: Emily Dylla
• 2013-14: Debora Trein
• 2012-13: Shannon Iverson
• 2011-12: Nadya Prociuk
• 2010-11: Carla Klehm
• 2008-09: Micaela Obledo
• 2007-08: Shawn Marceaux
• 2006-07: Lisa Kraus
• 2005-06: Kirsten Atwood
• 2004-05: Lesley Kadish
• 2003-04: Peggy Brunache, Chet Walker & Clay Schultz
• 2001-02: Mary Jo Galindo
• 2000-01: Terry Powis
• 1999-00: Carmen "Apen" Ruiz

Bromley F. Cooper Endowed Fellowship

This endowment was established in memory of Bromley F. Cooper, who explored the area of South Texas surrounding Kingsville, amassing a large collection of Native American artifacts and arrowheads, and keeping detailed records of the location of each find. Preference for this fellowship should be given (but not limited) to students concentrating on the archeological history of South Texas. The Cooper fellowship is $3,000.

Dr. H. Barry and Lucy V. Holt Endowed Fellowship

Barry Holt (B.A., Occidental; M.A., Tulane: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Texas; J.D., Lewis and Clark) is a philanthropist and retired lawyer with a long-standing interest in archaeology and ethnohistory. He and wife Lucy Holt (B.S. and M.S. Nursing, University of Texas) have a history of impactful philanthropy and currently reside in Phoenix, AZ and Carlsbad, CA. Establishing this fellowship in 2021, the Holts write that “It is our hope and expectation that this Fellowship will encourage UT Graduate Anthropology students to pursue Ethnohistorical and Archeological research into the fascinating prehistoric cultures of Mesoamerica, which is so critical to our understanding of all human culture.”

Preference for this fellowship will be given to Anthropology graduate students whose academic focus is on Latin American (and particularly Mesoamerican) Archaeology and/or Ethnohistory from prehistoric times through the Spanish Conquest.

Distinguished Teaching Fellowship

The Department of Anthropology Distinguished Teaching Fellowship offers advanced graduate students the opportunity to teach an upper-division undergraduate course of their own design. The selected fellow is appointed as an Assistant Instructor for the semester and receives a fellowship award in the amount of $1,000.

• 2023: John Duncan Hurt, Pseudo-Science in Archaeology
• 2022: Rachel Voyt, Evolutionary Theory and Identity Politics in Primatology
• 2021: Emmy Dawson, Archaeology of Feast and Famine

Teaching Assistantships

The main form of departmental support available to students in the department of Anthropology is in the form of Teaching Assistant (TA) positions.

Students wishing to be considered for a TA position are required to submit a formal application to the department in the spring semester. 

Stipends range between $13,684 and $15,074 for a nine-month period; additionally, TAs are entitled to a tuition reduction benefit (currently $3784), resident tuition rates, and health insurance benefits. NOTE: Candidates whose native language is not English must pass the English Proficiency Assessment and Orientation administered by the University before they may be appointed. 

FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships

These fellowships are administered through the following language centers. Only applicants possessing high academic qualifications and wishing to specialize in a particular language area should consider applying for this fellowship. Eligible applicants should make sure to apply for the FLAS at the time of their application to the department. More information can be obtained by contacting one of the area and language-studies centers that offer courses relevant to your interests. Stipend: $15,000 for one academic year plus tuition.

• The South Asia Institute (512-471-5811) supports the study of modern South Asian languages taught at UT-Austin (e.g., Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Urdu). Please visit their web site for more information and to obtain an on-line application.
• The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (512-471-7782) can fund language study in the following: Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Romani, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Uzbek, and Yiddish. Study of other languages requires petitioning to the Department of Education. Please visit their web site for more information and to obtain an on-line application.
• The Institute of Latin American Studies (512-471-5551) can fund language study in Portuguese and Quechua, and possibly other languages by special arrangement. Please visit their web site for more information and to obtain an on-line application.
• The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (512-471-3881) can fund language study in modern Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish. Please visit their web site for more complete information.

Externally Funded Fellowships

The department of Anthropology strongly encourages and helps graduate students to obtain outside fellowships and grants. Many of our students have won prestigious awards such as Ford Foundation grants, Fulbright-Hays grants, National Science Foundation research grants, Social Science Research Council fellowships, and Wenner-Gren grants, among others. It is essential that you submit applications for graduate funding as you apply for admission to graduate programs. Information about many fellowships can be found on the Graduate School web site .

Student Employment

Campus Employment is an effective alternative for those not receiving financial awards or wishing to subsidize any aid they do receive. You can find information on campus employment via the university's Human Resource Services website .

Federal Aid 

For a list of financial aid programs, scholarship sources, student loan information, and student employment opportunities, visit the website of the UT-Austin Office of Student Financial Services (512-475-6282).

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By applying to our PhD program, you will automatically be evaluated for one of our fellowships and may be considered for other funds to support graduate education. Doctoral students will be given priority for all available funding.  Students are encouraged to apply for national fellowships such as NSF, Fulbright, SSRC, and Wenner Gren. PhD students will be given priority for all funding.  Note that there is no guarantee of funding for MA students. Anthropology Department fellowships are competitive and based strictly on academic performance. Because they are limited, we encourage you to visit  CU Financial Aid  and apply for additional financial aid that you anticipate you might need.

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All students admitted to the PhD program are offered a six-year funding package, contingent on satisfactory progress toward their degree. The funding package provides payment of tuition up to 14 credits per semester, partial payment of the health insurance premium, and a stipend.

For incoming graduate students, funding is normally provided through teaching assistantships, as well as appropriate fellowships and research assistant positions as they become available. After passing the preliminary written and oral examinations, graduate students occasionally have the opportunity to be the primary instructor (graduate instructor) for an undergraduate course.

Graduate instructor positions, nominated fellowships, and research assistant positions that are made available through faculty in the department or through departmental nomination, as well as TA or RA positions in other units of the university, are considered to be part of the six-year funding package.

Department Opportunities

Nominated fellowships.

During our admission process, the graduate committee will nominate appropriate applicants for the CLA Graduate Fellowships, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Fellowship , and the Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE) fellowships , based on the applicant's file. These fellowships are by nomination only and cannot be applied for by applicants; however, applicants should indicate in their applications if they believe they would be good candidates for any of these fellowships.

Teaching/Research Assistantships

Most of the department’s support for graduate students takes place through these appointments:

• Teaching assistants (TAs) help teach students in a specified course or courses under the general supervision of faculty or academic staff. TAs grade papers, lead labs and discussion sections, and hold office hours. They may also be assigned primary responsibility for an entire course.
• Research assistants (RAs) carry out activities connected with research studies assigned by the supporting department or principal research investigator.

Appointments to a teaching assistant or research assistant position are offered through various departments and programs. You are encouraged to seek TA or RA positions outside the department, particularly if such positions will contribute to developing your dissertation research project.

Graduate Instructor Positions

Occasionally, due to faculty leaves or other reasons, the opportunity arises for advanced graduate students to be the graduate instructor for an undergraduate course. These positions are made available through a competitive process announced by our director of graduate studies. To be eligible to apply to teach such a course, funds must be available; the applicant must be ABD (have completed all work but the dissertation) and have the support of their advisors. Students who are still within their six-year funding timeline will be given priority.

Other Opportunities

University opportunities.

Graduate students in the Department of Anthropology are often successful in obtaining funding opportunities through the University of Minnesota. This includes many of the University Fellowship opportunities , as well as funding opportunities within the college or program-levels as well; for example, the  Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program  through the CLA Office of Research and Graduate Programs, the Hella Mears Fellowship through German & European Studies, and FLAS Fellowships through Global Studies.

External Fellowships

Students are encouraged to apply for financial support outside the department. If appropriate, you will be encouraged to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate School Fellowship and other external fellowships. Fellowships are also available for underrepresented and educationally disadvantaged students, for students with a diversity of views and experiences, and for other student backgrounds. Other avenues of financial assistance include student employment and various loan programs that are based on financial need. Refer to the Graduate School funding information website  .

International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) Financial Aid

In an effort to assist international students who are experiencing financial hardship due to unforeseen circumstances, International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS ) offers a very limited amount of financial aid to international students. ISSS international student funding is designed to assist with the cost of tuition and fees only; international students must document that they are employed in an effort to cover their living expenses.

Additional Financial Aid

Students admitted to the graduate program who need additional financial aid should check out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and other grant and loan opportunities at the Office of Student Finance and OneStop's Financial Aid Resources .

Questions about funding opportunities?

Contact the Department of Anthropology graduate program at [email protected] for more information.

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Program Description

Graduate training in the Field of Anthropology emphasizes sociocultural anthropology, with an additional concentration in archaeological anthropology. Biological anthropology is primarily an undergraduate program. Substantively, the Field of Anthropology combines humanistic and social scientific approaches in innovative ethnographic research, emphasizing culture as a productive process and anthropologists as engaged in understanding and defending cultural diversity. Geographically, our greatest depth is in Asia (East, South, and Southeast), but the Americas, Europe, and Africa all also figure importantly. The Field of Anthropology has strong ties with all the geographic area programs, as well as faculty active in many other interdisciplinary programs, including joint appointments with Asian American Studies, Latina/o Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

The graduate program in anthropology is highly individualized and interdisciplinary. Only four courses and a field research proposal are required; thus, the bulk of students' work in language, area studies, or other training is individually designed in consultation with the Special Committee. Individually-tailored examinations occur after approximately the first year of course work (the Qualifying Exam), the second or third year (the Admission to Candidacy, or A Exam), and after completion of the thesis (the Defense or B Exam). Most graduate students in the Field of Anthropology complete one to two years of intensive field research. All doctoral candidates are also expected to teach at some point: most students first get experience as assistants in both introductory and mid-level courses; later, many design and teach courses of their own in the Knight Writing Program. A vigorous colloquium series enriches the intellectual environment for both students and faculty.

The Field of Anthropology primarily admits candidates seeking a Ph.D. because of the lack of funding for, and employment with, only an M.A. With very rare exceptions, every student admitted to the Ph.D. program receives funding to support five years of on-campus study. Graduate students apply for additional funding from Cornell or from major external sources such as NSF, Fulbright, SSRC, and Wenner-Gren to conduct both preliminary and dissertation field research. Most students complete the Ph.D. within seven years and most have gone on to find academic employment at major colleges and universities in the U.S. or abroad.

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266 McGraw Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY  14853

Concentrations by Subject

• archaeological anthropology
• socio-cultural anthropology

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Application Requirements and Deadlines

Fall, Dec. 15; no spring admission

Requirements Summary:

A committee, chaired by the director of graduate studies and consisting of three additional faculty members, evaluates all applications for admission and financial support. Applications should also include a writing sample such as a term paper, an honors thesis, or a research report. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is December 15.

• all  Graduate School Requirements , including  English Language Proficiency Requirement  for all applicants
• Academic Statement of Purpose limited to 2 pages or approximately 1,000 words
• Personal Statement
• three recommendations
• writing sample limited to 35 pages double-spaced (including all notes, images, bibliography)

Learning Outcomes

Make an original, substantial, and publishable contribution to Anthropology

• Identify and pursue new research opportunities within one's field
• Think originally and independently to develop concepts and methods

Demonstrate advanced Anthropological research skills

• Create new knowledge through the generation, analysis, and synthesis of primary and secondary source materials
• Identify and access appropriate sources of relevant information
• Critically analyze and evaluate one's own findings and those of others
• Master application of relevant research methods, technical skills, and languages

Demonstrate commitment to advancing Anthropological scholarship

• Show understanding of the history of Anthropology and the development of current theoretical debates
• Keep abreast of current advances within one's field and related areas
• Show commitment to professional development through engagement in professional societies, publication, applied, and/or outreach activities
• Teach effectively by presenting and disseminating knowledge in the field to students, professionals, and members of the public

Demonstrate professional skills

• Adhere to ethical standards of the discipline for using sources, artifacts, and remains; interacting with human subjects; and working with colleagues
• Write and speak effectively to professional and lay audiences about issues in the field
• Actively compete for major intramural and extramural research grants

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MRes/PhD Anthropology

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• Starting 2024
• Home full-time: Closed
• Overseas full-time: Closed
• Location: Houghton Street, London

This programme offers you the chance to undertake a substantial piece of work that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to the field of anthropology. You will begin on the MRes, and will need to meet certain requirements to progress to the PhD.

LSE has one of the most famous anthropology departments in the world. The research interests of our staff span all the major theoretical spheres of modern social anthropology. We carry out ethnographic research in diverse settings such as bureaucracies, corporations, NGOs, rural and urban communities and religious and social movements. Our expertise covers all the regions of the world including China, South Asia, South East Asia, the U.S.A, Europe, Latin America and post-socialist states. Our Department is well known for the rigour of its ethnography in settings such as these, and also for the pivotal contributions it makes to foundational topics in the social sciences such as politics, economics, religion and kinship.

The MRes/PhD programme is central to the life of the Department, and we support students with their field research and professional development. By joining this programme you will be actively involved in innovative research, which is rooted in our Department’s anthropological traditions of: long-term ethnographic fieldwork; a commitment to broad comparative inquiries into human sociality; and a critical engagement with social theory.

The programme is built around long-term participant observation fieldwork in locations throughout the world. You will normally undertake fieldwork for around 18 months. After fieldwork, you begin work on your thesis dissertation.

Programme details

Entry requirements, minimum entry requirements for mres/phd anthropology.

We require applicants to have a significant prior training in social anthropology at degree level. Normally, this will be evidenced by a merit or higher result on a taught MSc/MA in social anthropology from a UK university, or the equivalent of this from an overseas university; or by a 2:1 or higher result on an undergraduate BA/BSc in social anthropology from a UK university, or the equivalent of this from an overseas university. In brief, you need to have taken a significant number of anthropology courses at university level and to have achieved a good result in your degree overall.   

Applicants who do not hold these qualifications should first complete a one-year MSc/MA programme in social anthropology, such as those convened by our Department, before applying for the MRes/PhD track. 

Note that for students who are already currently registered on one of the Department’s MSc programmes,  specific additional conditions of admission to the MRes/PhD programme may apply.  

Competition for places at the School is high. This means that even if you meet our minimum entry requirements, this does not guarantee you an offer of admission.

Assessing your application

We welcome applications for research programmes that complement the academic interests of our members of staff, and we recommend that you investigate  staff research interests  before applying.

We carefully consider each application on an individual basis, taking into account all the information presented on your application form, including your:

- academic achievement (including existing and pending qualifications) - statement of academic purpose - references - CV - research proposal - sample of written work.

See further information on supporting documents

You may also have to provide evidence of your English proficiency. You do not need to provide this at the time of your application to LSE, but we recommend that you do.  See our English language requirements .

When to apply

The application deadline for this programme is 15 January 2024 . However, to be considered for any LSE funding opportunity, you must have submitted your application and all supporting documents by the funding deadline. See the fees and funding section for more details.

Fees and funding

Every research student is charged a fee in line with the fee structure for their programme. The fee covers registration and examination fees payable to the School, lectures, classes and individual supervision, lectures given at other colleges under intercollegiate arrangements and, under current arrangements, membership of the Students' Union. It does not cover living costs or travel or fieldwork.

Tuition fees 2024/25 for MRes/PhD Anthropology

Home students: £4,829 for the first year (provisional) Overseas students: £22,632 for the first year

The fee is likely to rise over subsequent years of the programme. The School charges home research students in line with the level of fee that the Research Councils recommend. The fees for overseas students are likely to rise in line with the assumed percentage increase in pay costs (ie, 4 per cent per annum).

The Table of Fees shows the latest tuition amounts for all programmes offered by the School.

The amount of tuition fees you will need to pay, and any financial support you are eligible for, will depend on whether you are classified as a home or overseas student, otherwise known as your fee status. LSE assesses your fee status based on guidelines provided by the Department of Education.

Further information about fee status classification.

Scholarships, studentships and other funding

The School recognises that the  cost of living in London  may be higher than in your home town or country, and we provide generous scholarships each year to home and overseas students.

This programme is eligible for  LSE PhD Studentships , and  Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding . Selection for the PhD Studentships and ESRC funding is based on receipt of an application for a place – including all ancillary documents, before the funding deadline.

Funding deadline for the LSE PhD Studentships and ESRC funding: 15 January 2024

In addition to our needs-based awards, LSE also makes available scholarships for students from specific regions of the world and awards for students studying specific subject areas.  Find out more about financial support.

External funding 

There may be other funding opportunities available through other organisations or governments and we recommend you investigate these options as well.

Further information

Fees and funding opportunities

Information for international students

LSE is an international community, with over 140 nationalities represented amongst its student body. We celebrate this diversity through everything we do.  

If you are applying to LSE from outside of the UK then take a look at our Information for International students . 

1) Take a note of the UK qualifications we require for your programme of interest (found in the ‘Entry requirements’ section of this page). 

2) Go to the International Students section of our website. 

3) Select your country. 

4) Select ‘Graduate entry requirements’ and scroll until you arrive at the information about your local/national qualification. Compare the stated UK entry requirements listed on this page with the local/national entry requirement listed on your country specific page.

Programme structure and courses

The first year focuses on fieldwork preparation and training in research methodologies. You will take courses and seminars based in the Department of Anthropology. Depending on your qualifications and background, you will also be asked to take additional coursework in social anthropology by attending lecture courses in, for example, economics, kinship or religion.

You will also audit (attend but not participate in assessment) one or two of the Department’s main lecture courses, to the value of one unit.

Throughout the pre-fieldwork year, your main task is to prepare – in close consultation with your two supervisors – a formal research proposal (with a 10,000-word limit). This is formally assessed by the Department. You will normally be upgraded from MRes to PhD registration if your proposal is approved, and if you have achieved the required marks in your coursework. You are then allowed to proceed to fieldwork. 

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists Provides you with insights into the process by which anthropological knowledge is produced, and trains you in the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. 

Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social Sciences Considers research practices across a range of social and natural sciences in order to explore methodological issues which are specifically relevant to ethnography. 

Supervised Reading Course and Fieldwork Preparation Gives you a detailed knowledge of the regional ethnographic literature relevant to your proposed research project, as well as providing you with a firm grounding in the theoretical literature relevant to your research objectives. 

Research Proposal Preparation of a formal Research Proposal of 8,000-10,000 words for submission to the Department on or before the deadline in June/August. 

Seminar on Anthropological Research

After meeting the progression requirements, you will be upgraded to PhD registration and will commence the fieldwork phase of the programme. Most students carry out fieldwork for approximately 18 months, however the timing and duration of the fieldwork and post-fieldwork stages may vary to some extent between students. During fieldwork – depending on the practicalities of communication – you are expected to maintain close contact with your supervisor about the progress of your work.

After fieldwork, doctoral candidates begin writing their PhD dissertations under the close guidance of their supervisors. During this period of your studies, you will also attend seminars on: thesis-writing; professional development and our departmental seminar in which external speakers present their latest research. Most students complete their dissertations between one and two years after their fieldwork has ended.

First and second year of the PhD (typically 18 months)

Second to fourth year of the phd (typically 18 to 24 months).

Advanced Professional Development in Anthropology Examines key theoretical concepts and approaches in anthropology at an advanced level that may be relevant to post-fieldwork doctoral candidates. Enhances your professional development by providing you with advanced training in writing and presentation skills and skills relevant to your career progression.

Thesis Writing Seminar This non-assessed course involves you presenting draft dissertation chapters amongst your cohort.

For the most up-to-date list of optional courses please visit the relevant School Calendar page.

You must note, however, that while care has been taken to ensure that this information is up to date and correct, a change of circumstances since publication may cause the School to change, suspend or withdraw a course or programme of study, or change the fees that apply to it. The School will always notify the affected parties as early as practicably possible and propose any viable and relevant alternative options. Note that the School will neither be liable for information that after publication becomes inaccurate or irrelevant, nor for changing, suspending or withdrawing a course or programme of study due to events outside of its control, which includes but is not limited to a lack of demand for a course or programme of study, industrial action, fire, flood or other environmental or physical damage to premises.  

You must also note that places are limited on some courses and/or subject to specific entry requirements. The School cannot therefore guarantee you a place. Please note that changes to programmes and courses can sometimes occur after you have accepted your offer of a place. These changes are normally made in light of developments in the discipline or path-breaking research, or on the basis of student feedback. Changes can take the form of altered course content, teaching formats or assessment modes. Any such changes are intended to enhance the student learning experience. You should visit the School’s  Calendar , or contact the relevant academic department, for information on the availability and/or content of courses and programmes of study. Certain substantive changes will be listed on the  updated graduate course and programme information page.

Supervision, progression and assessment

Supervision.

You will be assigned two supervisors who are specialists in your chosen research field, though not necessarily in your topic.

Progression and assessment

You will need to meet certain criteria to progress to PhD registration, such as achieving certain grades in your coursework, and earning a minimum mark on your research proposal, which includes a viva oral examination.

Your progress will also be reviewed at the end of each year of your PhD study, and will be based on written reports. The mandatory third year progress review for students in anthropology is held in the third term (or, exceptionally, in the fourth term) after your return from fieldwork; this entails a viva with both supervisors and one external examiner.

Your final award will be determined by the completion of an original research thesis and a viva oral examination.

More about progression requirements.

Student support and resources

We’re here to help and support you throughout your time at LSE, whether you need help with your academic studies, support with your welfare and wellbeing or simply to develop on a personal and professional level.

Whatever your query, big or small, there are a range of people you can speak to who will be happy to help.  

Department librarians   – they will be able to help you navigate the library and maximise its resources during your studies. 

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Jiazhi fengjiang  mphil/phd anthropology london, uk  .

The PhD programme in Anthropology at LSE is extremely stimulating and rewarding. The department of anthropology produces world-class research and enables students to access extensive academic resources and network beyond LSE in London. 

The programme allows me to conduct my doctoral research with close supervision and mentorship from my two academic supervisors as well as numerous consultations and advice from faculty members, research student cohort, and visiting researchers in the department through reading, research, and writing-up seminars. After one year of preparation on my research proposal, I conducted an eighteen-month fieldwork in China’s southeast coast. Over the course of writing up my thesis, I got chances to teach an undergraduate course and present my work at the Friday morning departmental seminar. I was also part of the Argonaut (the departmental journal) project as a cover designer and illustrator. Beyond the LSE academic community, London is a hub of exciting events and networks. I got to participate in varied workshops and collaborate with colleagues beyond LSE in reading groups, publications, as well as exploring visual and graphic anthropology. 

Following my PhD at LSE, my main plan is to publish my thesis as a book and publish a couple of journal articles while developing a new post-doc research project on grassroots transnational humanitarianism in Asia. I hope to continue my academic career as an anthropologist and deliver my research in varied forms to a wider audience. 

Megnaa Mehtta  MRes/PhD Anthropology London, UK 

I am a PhD student in the department of Social Anthropology. I was born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, and did my undergraduate degree at Yale University with short stints at Delhi University and the University of Cape Town. After my B.A, I worked as a community organizer in Buenos Aires on issues of urban waste and labour. I also taught social anthropology at a bachillerato popular (community college) in the city. After Argentina, I moved back to where I grew up in southern Rajasthan and worked as a community mobiliser and ethnographer focusing on issues around alternative politics.

My PhD research is based out of the Sundarbans mangrove forests that range across the borders of India and Bangladesh and are internationally famous as a protected habitat of the Royal Bengal tiger. Less well known are the 4.5 million people who live alongside these forests, and the many thousands who venture into them on a daily basis to earn a livelihood collecting fish, crabs and honey. During 22 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I lived with communities that ‘do the jungle’, sharing in their daily lives and venturing into the forests with them to fish, collect crabs, and understand the relationship they have to their labour and surrounding rivers and forests. As an environmental anthropologist interested in the intersection of political ecology and everyday ethics, my research explores what conserving life means to the people living alongside a global conservation hotspot. I delve into the fishers’ motivations for undertaking life-threatening work in the jungle, their notions of sufficiency and excess, what it means to sustain a household, and ultimately the kind of life they seek to conserve for themselves in relation to their surrounding landscape.

One of the most exciting aspects of LSE’s PhD program in Social Anthropology is the opportunity to do such long-term ethnographic fieldwork. In my pre-field year I had a completely different set of questions I wanted to explore.  However, when I arrived in the Sundarbans, I realized that the themes and issues most important to my interlocutors were completely different from what I had conceived of in my research proposal in London. I feel privileged to have been encouraged to pursue what I think is the truest way of doing anthropology, paying attention to people’s lives, the categories with which they themselves make sense of things, and their attempts to live a full life amidst the forces that constantly renegotiate their everyday realities.

An additional perk of studying at the LSE is the opportunity to participate in the departmental seminar series known as ‘Friday Seminars.’ Through weekly presentations, students and faculty get to hear some of the most intellectually stimulating research papers in contemporary anthropology that showcase the creative breadth the discipline allows for. In addition to ‘Friday Seminars’, Fridays are doubly fun thanks to a ritual of gathering at the pub with one’s colleagues. The Anthropology Department is a vibrant place distinguished both by its ideas and its people.             

Itay Noy MRes/PhD Anthropology Tel Aviv, Israel

The PhD community is very social and I enjoy the mix of students, from different countries and walks of life. It is an intellectually stimulating environment with lots of interesting speakers coming to our seminars. My thesis supervisors are also great, they are always encouraging and giving me lots of useful feedback on my work.

Quick Careers Facts for the Department of Anthropology

Median salary of our PG students 15 months after graduating: £28,000

Top 5 sectors our students work in:

• Government, Public Sector and Policy   
• Financial and Professional Services              
• FMCG, Manufacturing and Retail              
• Advertising, Marketing, PR Media, Entertainment, Publishing and Journalism           
• Recruitment and Employment Activities

The data was collected as part of the Graduate Outcomes survey, which is administered by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Graduates from 2020-21 were the fourth group to be asked to respond to Graduate Outcomes. Median salaries are calculated for respondents who are paid in UK pounds sterling and who were working in full-time employment.

Students who successfully complete the programme often embark on an academic career. 

Students who graduated within the last ten years have gone on to a range of occupations such as:

Amit Desai (PhD 2007) – Research Fellow, Nursing & Midwifery Research Department, King’s College London Fraser McNeill (PhD 2007) – Senior Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Andrew Sanchez (PhD 2009) – Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Cambridge Elizabeth Hull (PhD 2009) – Lecturer in Anthropology, SOAS Food Studies Centre and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health Judith Bovensiepen (PhD 2010) – Senior Lecturer, School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent Victoria Boydell (PhD 2010) – Rights and Accountability Advisor, Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge Katie Dow (PhD 2010) – Senior Research Associate, Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge Maxim Bolt (PhD 2011) – Reader in Anthropology and Africa at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham Indira Arumugam (PhD 2011) – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore Elizabeth Frantz (PhD 2011) – Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations Tom Boylston (PhD 2012) – Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Edinburgh Kimberly Chong (PhD 2012) – Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex Dina Makram-Ebeid (PhD 2013) –  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology, The American University in Cairo Giulia Liberatore (PhD 2013) – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, COMPAS, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford Ruben Andersson (PhD 2013) - Associate Professor of Migration and Development, International Migration Institute, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford Jovan Scott Lewis (PhD 2014) – Assistant Professor, University of California UC Berkeley Amy Penfield (PhD 2015) – Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester Méadhbh Mclvor (PhD 2016) – Teaching Fellow in Social Anthropology, UCL Agustin Diz (PhD 2017) – LSE Fellow in Anthropology, LSE

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An Anthropology MPhil/PhD means being an unrivalled expert on human life, culture, society, ecology, biology, or some combination of those. Sustained fieldwork is normally required and graduates of this programme specialise in a wide range of research methods. Doctoral-level anthropologists are sought for work in government, policy, social research, design and high-tech industries, development, heritage, marketing and journalism, as well as academia.

UK tuition fees (2024/25)

Overseas tuition fees (2024/25), programme starts, applications accepted.

• Entry requirements

Ideal candidates will have a Master's degree with Distinction in Anthropology or a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of equivalent standard. Minimum entry requirements are a Master's degree with Merit or a Bachelor's Honours degree with Distinction in Anthropology or a relevant discipline. Applicants must contact their proposed supervisors prior to applying to secure support for their application.

The English language level for this programme is: Level 4

UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level.

Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.

Equivalent qualifications

Country-specific information, including details of when UCL representatives are visiting your part of the world, can be obtained from the International Students website .

International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.

About this degree

Research may be pursued in or across five main areas, each of which is the focus of separate sections in the department: Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology; Social Anthropology; Material Culture; Medical Anthropology; and Public Anthropology. We offer a wide range of specialisations within these fields.

Who this course is for

The programme is suited both for ambitious researchers who want to pursue an academic career and professionals who aim to continue their professional development.

What this course will give you

The advantage of undertaking advanced research in UCL Anthropology is the breadth of expertise available within the sections of the department. Most anthropology departments specialise in the sub-disciplines of social or biological anthropology. However, students at UCL can tackle research in interdisciplinary areas and expect to receive expert supervision in social and cultural, biological and medical anthropology, as well as material, visual and digital culture. Additionally, each of these sections in the department offers a diverse range of theoretical, methodological, topical and geographic interests and specialisms.

One factor that supplements this breadth and interdisciplinarity is the existence of a flourishing Research and Reading Group (RRG) culture in which staff and students informally come together outside of area sections to share knowledge and discuss individual research on subjects of shared interest. This leads to formal workshops, conferences, and publications that engage broader audiences and offer platforms for students to present their work.

Studying at UCL Anthropology also offers opportunities to post, edit and publish original work in the numerous academic journals and blogs associated with or managed by the department, as well as in Anthropolitan, the scholarly magazine edited by students. Other opportunities for research students include generous support for organising conferences and events, teaching assistantships and assistant curatorships, and research within the department's special collections and labs.

UCL Anthropology ranks fourth in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 , making it the top ranked institution in London, and third in the UK and Europe for the subject.

The foundation of your career

A majority of our MPhil/PhD graduates have taken up lectureships in universities in the UK and abroad, or continue their research interests through fellowships and other research posts.

Anthropology as a profession has become more sought-after in recent years. UCL graduates work in a range of areas. These include:

• Social and market research
• Government and policy (including senior levels of Government in the UK)
• Digital and high-tech design
• Development
• Heritage, museums and environmental reserves

Employability

The MPhil/PhD cultivates advanced skills in qualitative and quantitative methods, expert knowledge of the anthropological issues pertinent to their field of study and original data collection. Anthropology doctorates are valued by employers for not only providing empirical data for known situations, but critical thinking skills enabling them to reflect on and re-think social, economic, medical, environmental, biological and political situations as they change.

Our graduate students attend and participate in seminars, workshops and conferences within the department and interdisciplinary research centres across UCL, providing opportunities to network with leading academics across a variety of research fields.

Teaching and learning

You will have continuous support to develop your research throughout the programme. In the first year, you will undertake rigorous training in research methods (Methods Seminar) and will explore the academic skills required to plan and carry out a successful PhD (ResDesPres Seminar), with a focus on writing skills, research ethics, wellbeing and policy and media engagement, etc.

The PhD is examined by a viva committee comprising of two experts in the field, an external examiner who can be based anywhere in the world, and an internal examiner who is normally from the University of London. You should not have had much prior contact with either examiner. Your supervisor nominates suitable examiners during your final year, in consultation with you, and the nominations are scrutinised by UCL’s examinations office who may approve or reject them. 

The examiners have several weeks, or sometimes months, to read your thesis in detail. The viva exam is a meeting in which the examiners and yourself discuss your work, both through direct questions and more informal conversation, and it normally takes two or more hours.

We expect you to use 15 hours each week for the taught element of the programme, and 20 hours for self-directed study and research planning.

Research areas and structure

The department provides supervision in the following areas, among others:

• Anthropological Issues in Education and Learning (AIEL)
• Art and Anthropology
• Biosocialities, Health and Citizenship
• Built Environment, Landscape and Public Spaces
• Cognition and the Anthropology of the Mind
• Cultures of Consumption and the Home
• Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture (CROC)
• Culture and Human Wellbeing
• Design Anthropology
• Digital Anthropology
• Dirt, Excrement, and Decay (DEAD)
• Documentary Film and Film Ethnography
• Ethics and the Person
• Fashion and Clothing
• Finance, Money, and Social Systems
• Human Ecology Research Group (HERG)
• Human Evolutionary Ecology Group (HEEG) London Latin America Seminar
• Materials and Making
• Medical Materialities
• Object-based Research
• Palaeoanthropology and Comparative Anatomy (PACA)
• Pastoralism
• Performance, Theatre and Ethnography of the Imagination
• Politics, Criminality and the State
• Primate Sexualities: Beyond the Binary
• Reproduction and Sexuality
• Risk, Power and Uncertainty
• Social Media
• Space, Exploration and Planetary Futures
• Sustainability, Environment and Cultures of Materials (SEM)
• Technology and Infrastructure
• Visual Culture

Regional strengths include the UK, Caribbean, Central and Latin America, the Central Congo Delta, East Africa, Europe (East and West), Mongolia, Oceania, South Asia, and the US. Staff also regularly supervise beyond these areas and in conjunction with supervisors in other departments.

Research environment

The MPhil/PhD takes place in a research environment that includes the following components. These are:

• Weekly research seminars, organised according to sub-disciplinary section. Doctoral Researchers are strongly expected to attend their seminar series every week.
• RRGs – Research & Reading Groups which PGRs set up and/or join.
• Supportive courses, notably Research Design and Presentation (Year 1); Thesis-Writing Seminar (Years 2 & 3); Research Methods (Year 1)
• Peer-group interaction facilitated by common-room and hot-desk office spaces

Workshops organised in the department at the rate of up to 10 per year.

In Year One, you will crystallise your project with your Primary Supervisor, select a Secondary Supervisor and prepare for upgrade from MPhil to PhD as UCL requires. The upgrading normally comprises in a panel of staff, chaired by your subsidiary supervisor, who probe your detailed research review and proposal. This panel normally takes place after 9 months, before fieldwork commences but (a) may occur at 12 months and sometimes (b) after the period of fieldwork.

You will usually spend between 12 and 15 months undertaking data collection. For ethnographic projects this means being  ‘in the field’, but data collection can also take place in laboratory or archive settings (for example in Biological Anthropology or some Material Culture work). For some projects, shorter periods in the field are appropriate. Undertaking fieldwork is subject to approval as regards data protection, ethics, and risk issues.

You will usually return from fieldwork to write up in your third year and during the final CRS year (CRS means Completing Research Status, during which you do not pay fees). Your third year should ideally be devoted to writing exclusively. Assuming your PhD progresses well during that year, you are encouraged to gain teaching experience during your CRS writing-up year, or to undertake some similar vocational experience such as publications. Minor variations of this structure occur within the sub-disciplinary sections of the Department.

The degree promotes advanced skills in qualitative and quantitative methods and expert knowledge of the anthropological issues pertinent to their sub-disciplinary field of study. You will collect original data through methodologies that include but are not limited to participant observation, formal and informal interviews, ethnographic recordings, surveys, object and visual analyses, archival research, auto-ethnography, oral and genealogical histories, laboratory work, excavation, and participatory action research.

The MPhil/PhD programme is expected to be completed by full-time researchers in three years plus one in CRS (ie. it is officially three years of registration but researchers are permitted to take up to four years). For part-time researchers, the work is to be completed in five fee-paying years, plus two in CRS. You enter CRS when you are judged to be within less than one year of submitting, so if you have not made sufficient progress at the end of the third year, you may not be able to enter CRS.

A part-time MPhil/PhD takes place over five years, plus two in CRS.

There is no standard placement programme. Some anthropologists do work in institutions for up to a year as a part of their fieldwork, and many form collaborations with other institutions.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk . Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support and Wellbeing team .

Fees and funding

Fees for this course.

The tuition fees shown are for the year indicated above. Fees for subsequent years may increase or otherwise vary. Where the programme is offered on a flexible/modular basis, fees are charged pro-rata to the appropriate full-time Master's fee taken in an academic session. Further information on fee status, fee increases and the fee schedule can be viewed on the UCL Students website: ucl.ac.uk/students/fees .

Additional costs

For unfunded researchers, fieldwork is normally undertaken at their own expense.

For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs .

Funding your studies

To apply for funding through the department, you must first apply for the MPhil/PhD.

Common sources of funding, which our researchers have benefitted from, include:

• ESRC/ UBEL Doctoral Partnership (DTP): the UK's funding body for normal social science work.
• AHRC/ LAHP DTP: Funding for Arts and Humanities, projects submitted here often have an artistic, design or material culture angle.
• London NERC DTP: Funding for Environmental Science and related areas, for more scientific and environmental projects.
• BBSRC: Biological Sciences funding, worth considering for Biological Anthropology work.
• Soc-B CDT: a UCL Centre of Doctoral Training, relevant for some BioSocial projects.
• Wellcome Trust: funds medical-related research, worth considering for medical anthropology and related areas.
• Leverhulme Trust: charitable scheme funding annual Doctoral Research Scholarships.
• Wolfson Awards: UCL scholarship scheme for work relating to History, Literature or Languages.
• Mary Douglas Scholarships: scholarship scheme specific to our department, which may not run each year, depending on the benefactor.
• Collaborative Awards: if your research envisages a collaboration between the university and another institution, check for collaborative awards (a collaborative student may have a supervisor at UCL, and another in a company/Government body). Both ESRC and AHRC have collaborative schemes.
• The ESRC also has specific awards for Quantitative Projects (AQM awards, Biological Anthropology or Digital projects using quantitative data); and Interdisciplinary Awards.

Research students in the department have also received funding from CONCIETAS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, as well as studentships provided by numerous governments.

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website .

UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship (ROS)

Deadline: 12 January 2024 Value: UK rate fees, a maintenance stipend, conference costs and professional development package (3 years) Criteria Based on both academic merit and financial need Eligibility: UK

We take account of three things in an application:

• CV (ie. Does the candidate have the background to execute this work to a world-class standard of excellence).
• Project proposal (ie. Is it anthropological and does it have academic merit for new knowledge).
• Prospective supervisor (ie. Whether we have the expertise to advise on this research).

Every anthropology project is a little different. Normally candidates require the support of a prospective supervisor in the department, with whom they have talked through their proposal, their interests, experience and ideas.

It is not an official requirement to have a previous academic background which includes anthropology, but the project and the candidate should clearly be equipped to undertake research in an anthropology department and which contributes to anthropology. In general, projects supervised in the Social and Cultural Anthropology and in the Medical Anthropology subsections do tend to require you to have an anthropology background. Biological Anthropology and Material Visual & Digital Culture are more mixed, with some candidates coming from areas such as biological sciences, palaeontology, archaeology, design, design history, HCI, and museum studies.

Advice on these issues can be sought from prospective supervisors and from the departmental PhD handbook.

Deadlines and start dates are usually dictated by funding arrangements so check with the department or academic unit to see if you need to consider these in your application preparation. You must identify and contact potential supervisors before making your application. For more information see our How to apply page.

Please note that you may submit applications for a maximum of two graduate programmes (or one application for the Law LLM) in any application cycle.

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External funding opportunities for anthropologists, american psychological foundation visionary and weiss grants.

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Beinecke Scholarship

Apply as UG junior via campus liaison Matthew R. Auer, Honors College

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Graduates apply via Paul Fogleman, OVPIA; national security focus, overseas and language study

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UGs apply via Katie Saur, Overseas Studies; national security focus, overseas and language study

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Must be between the ages of 19 and 26, hold a bachelor's or equivalent, not have attained PhD; apply via Paul Fogleman, OVPIA

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Small grants for faculty or graduates pursuing scientific research

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For faculty and grads; research into human origins

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Finances American grads studying for a degree in the United Kingdom

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Archival research funding

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Supports dissertation completion writing/research.

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Mellon Graduate Dissertation Fellowship. To provide funding for doctoral dissertation research for at least three months in a country or region outside the U.S. that is the focus of study.

Mitchell Scholarship

Finances 1 year postgraduate study in Ireland

NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship

Internship at NASA for up to 3 years, Masters/ PhD, NASA-related STEM research

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For graduates; focused on bio- and behavioral science

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Several programs for faculty performing bioanthropological research, at all career stages

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Supports the research of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

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For early-career faculty; must be nominated by dept. chair or other senior faculty; focus on science, technology and economics

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Dissertation research in social sciences and humanities

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Submitted by Arts & Sciences Web Team on May 1, 2024 - 7:59 am The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.  Featured on University of Washington   News Topic Student Success In the Press Honors and Awards Community Impact

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In memoriam: dr. j.j. brody, departmental news.

Posted:  May 08, 2024 - 12:00pm

Dr. J. J. Brody (UNM PhD 1970) passed away this week at the age of 95.  Dr. Brody was born on April 24, 1929 in Brooklyn to Aladar and Esther (Kraiman) Brody.  He received his Bachelor's degree in 1956, his Master of Arts in 1964, and his Doctorate degree 1970, all from the University of New Mexico. 

His long career at UNM included: Professor of Anthropology 1965-1985; Professor of Art History 1972-1989; Curator at the Maxwell Museum 1962-1972; and Director of the Maxwell Museum 972-1985. He was also a member of the advisory boards of the Ghost Ranch Museum, New Mexico Museum Natural History, 1981-1984,Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 1989-1992, Zuni Pueblo Museum, since 1992, and was a member fine arts board for the City of Albuquerque, serving as vice chairman from 1970-1974. He also served as a member of the Governor of New Mexico Task Force on Paleontological Resources, 1978-1979.

Some of his most noted publications include:

(A new tradition of Pueblo fine art painting arose in the ...)

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University of Houston 3553 Cullen Boulevard Room 323 Houston, TX 77204-3001 Phone: (713) 743-3136

Current Fellowship Recipients

The Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to recruit outstanding students who have demonstrated an interest in the advancement of the Mexican American or Latino community.

Preference shall be given to students who plan to conduct research in the area of Mexican American and/or Latino Studies. Students who are pursuing an M.A., M.F.A., or Ph.D. at the University of Houston are eligible to apply. Priority consideration will be given to students who bring a unique quantitative or qualitative research toolkit that would enhance CMALS’s research activities. Fellowships of up to $19,435 per academic year, renewable for a second year, are awarded to students on a competitive basis. Upon funds availability selected fellows may be provided tuition (see Awards section below for specifics). 

Application

Applications should include the following:

• A cover letter containing, name, contact information (email and phone number), student ID number, college, academic department, advisor’s name,  and contact information.  
• Resume with a listing of awards, publications, and/or samples of work where appropriate.
• A two-page description of the candidate’s research goals, including reference to the area of study in the M.A., M.F.A., or Ph.D. program.
• A letter of nomination from the chair or director of graduate studies in the UH department that has admitted the student.
• Two letters of reference, one of which must be from a faculty member that is familiar with the student’s current research record and work.

Students will be awarded fellowships of up to $19,435 per academic year in addition to any other scholarships they may receive from their departments or colleges. Recipients of the fellowships must be enrolled as full-time students and will work for the Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies as research assistants. The fellowships are renewable for a second year, provided that the recipient is in good academic standing, making satisfactory progress towards the degree, and has fulfilled her/his obligations with CMALS, and upon funds availability. For selected fellows, a decision to cover tuition will be made based on current and future funds available to CMALS. 

March 31st, 2024

Online Application

Scan your application into a single PDF  document in the following order:

• Cover letter
• Research Statement
• Nomination letter

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Submit it to: [email protected]

Letters of recommendation/reference should be sent electronically to [email protected]   indicating the name of the applicant on the subject line. 

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Past Fellowship Recipients

Call for the Admission to PhD positions–XL Cycle-ay2024/2025 with the assignment of doctoral scholarships financed by the University,Next Gen.EU-NRRP(Nat. Recov. and Resil Plan)ex DDMM 629,630/2024and other funds.Deadline:20/6/2024-12.00am-noon,CET

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Call for the Admission to PhD positions – XL Cycle - a.y. 2024/2025 with the assignment of further doctoral scholarships financed by the University, by Next Generation EU - NRRP (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) PNRR ex DD.MM. 629, 630/2024 and other funds. - Deadline: 20th June 2024 at 12:00 am (noon, Central Europe Summer Time)

Requirements

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The selection and assignment of additional scholarships may take place on specific topics described in the PhD Programme Information Sheet (Annex 1) of each PhD Programme, published at the Call webpage.

Eligible destination country/ies for fellows:

Eligibility of fellows: country/ies of residence:

Eligibility of fellows: nationality/ies:

Available positions may be consulted in the information sheet of each PhD Programme (Annex 1). The detailed information is the following: number of positions (with and without scholarship) and their research topics; ● admission requirements; ● selection mode; ● evaluation criteria.

Work Location(s)

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10 PhD Students Named 2023-24 Prize Teaching Fellows

Ten PhD students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) have been named Prize Teaching Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year: Camille Angelo (Religious Studies), Carissa Chan (Microbiology), Grayson Hoy (Chemistry), Nghiem Huynh (Economics), Kimberly Lifton (Medieval Studies), Benjamin Schafer (History), Jillian Stallman (Economics), Audrey Tjahjadi (Anthropology), Alexa Williams (Chemistry), and Novak Yang (Immunobiology). 

The Graduate School has awarded the teaching prizes annually since 2000. Recipients are nominated by their undergraduate students and the faculty members they assist while serving as Teaching Fellows.

"Doctoral education is more than just a journey from knowledge acquisition to knowledge creation," said Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School. "It is fundamentally about equipping scholars with the ability to share their insights broadly—to impact society positively through education. Reviewing the nominations, I am profoundly impressed by the innovative and engaging ways in which our teaching fellows have made complex ideas accessible and exciting to their students."

Biographies of the winners are included below.

Camille Leon Angelo (Religious Studies)

Camille Leon Angelo is a sixth-year PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies in the subfields of Eastern Mediterranean and West Asian Religions and Ancient Christianity. Her work examines materiality, sexuality, and space in late antiquity through new materialist, feminist, and queer lenses. She is a field archaeologist and has excavated in the eastern Mediterranean and the Caucasus. Her current research primarily engages archaeological, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence, related to late antique Egypt. Her past projects have analyzed the archaeological remains of several early Christian sites in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, most notably Dura-Europos, to elucidate sensory experiences in late antiquity.

Carissa Chan (Microbiology)

Carissa Chan is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Microbiology. Her research investigates how bacterial pathogens adapt to infection-relevant stresses, thus promoting survival inside mammalian host cells and disease. She has served as a teaching fellow for Physiological Systems for the past three years, including two as head teaching fellow. Each year, Carissa is inspired by the dedication and level of engagement from students in the class as they cover fascinating topics about the human body from fundamental cellular physiology to complex interactions between organ systems. Working with undergraduate and graduate students in Physiological Systems and sharing her excitement for science with them has been one of the highlights of her time at Yale.

Grayson Hoy (Chemistry)

Grayson Hoy is a first-year PhD student in the Chemistry Department. His research focuses on using super-resolution infrared microscopy to study metabolism in living cells to better understand metabolic dysregulation. Before Yale, he attended William & Mary, where he learned how transformative professors and mentors can be from a student’s perspective. Inspired by his undergraduate researcher professor, Dr. Kristin Wustholz, and other teachers throughout his life, Grayson aims to create a supportive learning environment where students feel empowered and excited by chemistry. 

Nghiem Huynh (Economics)

Nghiem Huynh is a doctoral candidate in Economics at Yale University, graduating in May 2024. His research evaluates the effects of government policies on regional and gender inequality. Nghiem holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from New York University Abu Dhabi.

Kimberly Lifton (Medieval Studies)

Kimberly Lifton is a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies program. She studies how Burgundy, England, and France's relationships with the Ottoman Empire materialized in manuscripts during the fifteenth century. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright, FLAS, and the Dhira Mahoney Fellowship. In the classroom, she works to develop compassionate pedagogy for neurodiverse students. 

Benjamin Schafer (History)

Benjamin Schafer is a PhD candidate in American History. He studies urban and social history in the late-twentieth-century United States.  His dissertation, “Life and Death in Rust,” is a study of poverty and inequality in post-industrial Buffalo, NY, his hometown, from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. Prior to Yale, Ben received an AB, magna cum laude with highest honors; Phi Beta Kappa, in History with a secondary in African American Studies from Harvard College, where he was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Senior Thesis Prize, the David Herbert Donald Prize in American History, and the Rev. Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity. He also holds an MPhil in Economic and Social History from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He works as a research assistant for Professors Elizabeth Hinton and Vanessa Ogle and has previously worked as a researcher for Professor Fredrik Logevall (Harvard) and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. He has been a teaching fellow for Professor David Engerman (Fall 2023, The Origins of U.S. Global Power) and Professor Marco Ramos (Spring 2023, The History of Drugs in America).

Jillian Stallman (Economics)

Jillian Stallman is a PhD student in the Economics Department interested broadly in the intersection of economic development, environmental economics, and political economy. She's writing her dissertation about cooperation over freshwater resources in developing countries using a combination of economic theory, surveys and administrative data, and remote-sensing measurements. Jillian spent her undergraduate years at Williams College, where she worked most semesters as a teaching assistant to her peers in courses ranging from macroeconomic development to multivariable calculus to introductory Chinese. After graduating, she spent several years travelling in, among other places, China, Chile and Senegal, operating under the belief that she would have a difficult time ultimately doing research about places and people she hadn't lived around for a good while.

Audrey Tjahjadi (Anthropology)

Audrey Tjahjadi is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology focusing on human evolutionary genetics. She is interested in how local environments have shaped the evolution of diet-related adaptations in Southeast Asian and Oceanic populations, particularly in genes involved in fatty acid metabolism. Outside of research, Audrey is also involved in science communication and outreach through Yale graduate student organizations. 

Alexa Kim Williams (Chemistry)

Alexa Williams is a PhD student in Materials Chemistry. She completed her BS in Chemistry in 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey. At Yale, her research explores the fundamental reactivity of H-terminated silicon nanoparticles and aims to inform broader studies on silicon-based hybrid materials for CO2 reduction. This work is part of the CHASE solar fuels hub.

Xuan (Novak) Yang (Immunobiology)

Novak Yang is a third-year PhD candidate in Dr. Lieping Chen’s laboratory at the Department of Immunobiology. He received his BS in Biology and MS in Cancer Biology and Translational Oncology degrees at Emory University, and was the first to accomplish this in a “3+1” timeline at Emory. Prior to joining Yale, Novak was trained by Dr. Haian Fu and Dr. Andrey Ivanov at the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, with a primary focus on cancer-associated protein-protein interactions and high-throughput drug discovery. He has multiple first-author and co-author publications, and is the recipient of American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Travel Award and Program Committee Blue Ribbon Pick, and Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Tony B. Academic Travel Award. Novak was recruited to Yale Immunobiology in 2021 as a Gruber Science Fellow. His research focuses on the discovery of actionable targets in the tumor microenvironment that drive the resistance to current immunotherapies, and pre-clinical development of innovative therapeutic strategies that normalize anti-tumor immunity for cancer patients.

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