MA in Anthropology - Linguistic in Norman United States | University of Oklahoma

The Department of Anthropology provides graduate programs leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, with a primary focus on the Americas. While acknowledging anthropology's global connections, our faculty maintain diverse research specializations.
OU's Anthropology Department emphasizes linguistic studies and their cultural, social, and cognitive connections.
Key research areas include:
Collaborative efforts in language preservation and community-based revitalization projects
Cultural analysis through ethnographic and discourse-focused methodologies
Studies of oral traditions, including storytelling, poetry, and ritual speech
Linguistic documentation, descriptive analysis, and digital archiving practices
Teaching and learning endangered languages, connections between language and identity, and how language shapes perception
Cultural beliefs about language, multilingual interactions and evolution, historical linguistics and grammatical development
Indigenous languages of Oklahoma and surrounding regions, particularly Athabaskan, Kiowa, Yuchi (Euchee), Siouan, Muskogean, and Algonquian language families