UVA's PhD in Anthropology fosters scholarly excellence in understanding human diversity across time and space. The program emphasizes theoretical innovation and methodological rigor across cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological anthropology. Students benefit from individualized mentorship, robust fieldwork opportunities, and transdisciplinary collaborations across departments such as History, Sociology, and Environmental Studies. Ideal for future professors, museum curators, policy analysts, and researchers, the program prepares graduates to contribute original insights to global discourses on culture, politics, and identity.
Longitudinal ethnography of informal economies in Southeast Asia
Decolonizing methodologies in archaeological fieldwork
Climate justice and Indigenous sovereignty: a comparative study
Semantic analysis of kinship metaphors across cultures
Repatriation politics in American museums
Ethnographic study of digital mourning on social media
Analysis of biometric surveillance in refugee camps
Public health anthropology in pandemic vaccine hesitancy
Participatory research in African diasporic identity formation
Archaeological modeling of ancient agricultural systems
Linguistic anthropology of youth slang in post-colonial cities
Anthropology of borderlands and transnational communities
Theoretical critique of neo-evolutionary frameworks
Post-industrial ethnographies: work and alienation in AI-driven economies
Virtual reality ethnography in gaming communities
Multispecies ethnography in conservation anthropology
Symbolism and statecraft in early civilizations
Archaeological study of sacred spaces in pre-Islamic Arabia
Policy-oriented anthropological research on asylum systems
Ethics and ontology in contemporary anthropological thought
Advance anthropological theory and global research with UVA’s rigorous PhD program.
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