MA in Classical Archaeology in Charlotte United States | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Department of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill integrates traditional philology, archaeology, and art history with contemporary critical methods, providing graduate students with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The department offers graduate degrees including an MA in Classics and Classical Archaeology, as well as PhD programs in Classics, Classics with Historical Emphasis, Classical and Medieval Latin, and Classical Archaeology. While there is no standalone MA program, all admitted students must complete the MA requirements before progressing to PhD candidacy.
For more than five decades, Classical Archaeology has been a distinguished focus within UNC's Classics Department. Both graduate and undergraduate programs highlight material culture as essential to classical studies, Mediterranean archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern research. The department collaborates with the interdepartmental Curriculum in Archaeology, leveraging the expertise of faculty across five Arts and Sciences units to foster interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Classical Archaeology program at UNC includes five faculty members spanning Classics and Religious Studies, with additional support from five archaeologists at Duke University through the Duke-UNC Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology. Ten more specialists from Anthropology and the Research Laboratories of Archaeology contribute expertise in archaeological theory, landscape studies, complex societies, ceramics, paleoethnobotany, and biological anthropology.

A key initiative of the program involves creating innovative fieldwork opportunities that unite faculty and students in joint research and education. Recent partnerships between Classics and Anthropology have resulted in the Azoria Project—a multi-year archaeological excavation on Crete supported by NEH and NSF grants. This initiative has produced collaborative publications and a field school engaging students from both departments and across the university.