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The Anthropology Department provides a doctoral program in Anthropology, featuring specializations in Sociocultural Anthropology, Archaeology, or Biological Anthropology. This PhD program explores varied analytical and substantive challenges in today's global context, with research opportunities spanning the United States and internationally. Potential research areas include political economy and financial systems, intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, psychological and medical anthropology studies, examinations of religion and secularism, genomics and science anthropology, folklore studies, linguistic anthropology, historical human-environment interactions, cultural dimensions of food, energy, and spatial dynamics, life course studies, historical and contemporary archaeology, biocultural archaeological methods, identity politics and bodily representations, small-scale agricultural systems, or metropolitan anthropology studies.
Applicants must hold a Bachelor of Arts degree or its equivalent from an institution of acceptable standing and may hold a Master of Arts in Anthropology or another field. Previous concentration in Anthropology is not required. The Department does not accept applicants interested in the Master of Arts in Anthropology degree only. The University's Graduate Division requires a combined junior and senior grade point average of at least 3.0 of an applicant to be admitted.
TOEFL at least 90 for the Internet-based test (IBT), and 570 for the paper-based format (PBT); Overall Band score must be at least 7 on a 9-point scale for IELTS.