Anthropology

Anthropology Program

Objectives:  Emory's graduate program in Anthropology balances rigorous core courses with a tutorial approach to advanced subjects and is designed to be intense and demanding for students and faculty. We encourage a diversity of doctoral research agendas across the entire range of cultural and biological anthropology, from the postmodern to the sociobiological. It is the exposure to alternative explanatory paradigms rather than a monolithic theoretical orientation that we think will prove both intellectually important and professionally successful in the anthropology of the future. The core program is a series of courses and seminars that gives advanced training in cultural and biological anthropology including a seminar team-taught by cultural and biological anthropologists. As a whole, the educational program provides students with a graduate-level grounding in cultural and biological anthropology that is sophisticated and unique. Specialization within cultural or biological sub-fields is encouraged, as well as combinations and creative dialogues between them, including those that draw upon Medical Anthropology. The program requires three years of full-time course work, followed by dissertation research and write-up. Graduate training is supported for research in all major world areas.

Additional Information:  Areas of specialization include Behavioral Biology and Ecology; Development, Political Economy, and Globalization; Evolutionary Theory; Gender and Sexuality; History, Narrative, and Power; Human Growth and Development; Language, Discourse, and Communicative Practices; Medical Anthropology; Nutrition in Anthropology; Practice, Power, and Representation; Primatology; Psychological Anthropology; and Race and Racism.


Application Information

Fall 2009 Program Application Deadline:   December 15, 2008

Faculty: 23
 
Students: In residence 40; average in entering class 6

Mailing Address:
Emory University
Department of Anthropology
1557 Dickey Drive
207 Anthropology Bldg.
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.

Telephone: +1 404.727.7518
Fax: +1 404.727.2860
Email: ybamps@emory.edu