Graduate Programs
The Department of Anthropology at Brandeis offers the M.A. and the Ph.D. degrees in anthropology, and a joint Anthopology and Women's & Gender Studies M.A. degree. The department also participates in the interdisciplinary Master's Program in Cultural Production.
The department admits only a small number of students each year in order to maintain its character as a small department in which students and faculty are closely associated and to ensure as high a level of student financial support as possible. Graduate training is based on required courses in the history, theory, and method of anthropology and on elective courses in the four subfields of anthropology (sociocultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and physical anthropology).
Students concentrate on one of three foci of anthropological inquiry:
- evolutionary processes,
- comparative social institutions, and
- systems of meaning
Training for independent research is stressed, with particular emphasis on theoretical issues and fieldwork.
- Applying to the Graduate Program
- Student Accomplishments
- Graduate Student Research Interests
- Brandeis Anthropology Resources
- Anthropology Department Graduate Student Handbook (PDF)
- Human Subjects Information
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Recent Ph.D.'s
- Departmental Research Grants
- Graduate Student Association
- Course Information
- Graduate Education in Anthropology at Brandeis
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