Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology - Cultural Anthropology

The faculty in cultural and linguistic anthropology share an abiding interest in all forms of inequality, especially those based on race/ethnicity, class, age, gender/sexuality, religion, and nationality. We focus on examining the political economy of these inequalities as they are historically produced, globally connected and locally contingent. We also investigate the myriad of ways that different groups construct, reproduce, and contest these inequalities through engagement with material and expressive culture, language, media and the public sphere, state institutions, organizations, migration processes, and religious practice.

Our commitment to exploring causes, forms, expressions, and contestations of inequality, at local and global levels, is part of a larger department vision we share with the other subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology. We regularly share our analyses of ethnicity/race, class, gender, generation, and material culture, making us a truly integrated four-field department.