PhD in Anthropology in Berkeley United States | University of California, Berkeley

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.