PhD in Social Anthropology in Halifax Canada | Dalhousie University

Our department fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, comparative analysis, and critical inquiry. Our graduate programs maintain an intimate, cooperative environment with selective admissions. We take great pride in providing exceptional faculty mentorship for our graduate scholars. A significant number of our PhD candidates earn prestigious scholarships from leading funding organizations, progressing to post-doctoral positions and careers in academia, research, policy development, and non-profit organizations.

Our graduate scholars demonstrate remarkable academic engagement, regularly sharing their research through diverse platforms. Notably, from 2009 to 2012, Sociology and Social Anthropology (SoSA) graduate students delivered 38 conference and workshop presentations.

While the doctoral program is structured as a four-year endeavor, most students in our disciplines typically require five to six years to complete their fieldwork and dissertation writing.