PhD in Anthropology - Cultural Anthropology in Boulder United States | University of Colorado Boulder

Cultural anthropologists examine the social norms and institutional frameworks that influence human thought and behavior in diverse societies worldwide, including their own. Their research often involves cross-cultural comparisons, with anthropologists conducting ethnographic studies via immersive participant-observation within specific cultures, subcultures, communities, and regions. These scholars gather knowledge through ethnographic approaches such as extended fieldwork, interviews, participant-observation, and other qualitative methods. Key research areas for cultural anthropologists encompass gender and sexuality studies, human-environment interactions, medical anthropology, science and technology research, national identity formation, economic systems, tourism studies, and collective memory. The department specializes in regions including Latin America, Indigenous North America, Atlantic Canada, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet, East Africa, the Caribbean, Polynesia, and Western Europe, along with their global diasporic communities.