Graduate Program

The Department of Anthropology offers graduate programs in the following areas:

• Social Anthropology
  Culture and power, cultural poetics, political economy, hegemony and resistance, discourse theory, ethnicity, class, and feminist theory are all taught. Faculty members represent a wide area of specialization, which includes Latin America, the Caribbean Islands, North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. There is particular interest in the native populations of North, Central, and South America, as well as special programs in the African Diaspora and in the Mexican-American borderlands.
  
  
• Archaeology
  Archaeology at the University of Texas reflects the breadth of specialization of its faculty, and its strong links with other disciplines. The program enjoys strong ties with Geography, Classics, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, Social, Cultural, and Physical Anthropology. A strong and active group of graduate students, the presence of the Texas Archeological Research Lab, and offices in State Government make Austin's community of archaeologists and related scholars exceptionally large and diverse.
  
  
• Physical Anthropology
  The University of Texas at Austin Anthropology department offers a strong program of graduate study in physical anthropology at both the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. The central focus of the physical anthropology program at UT Austin is the study of primate behavior, morphology and evolution. Through a combination of coursework and research projects, students are broadly trained in primate anatomy, behavior, ecology, paleontology, paleoecology, and systematics.
  
  
• Linguistic Anthropology
  Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin offers an exceptionally diverse and comprehensive training program that is unique and unparalleled in the US. Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and applications of Linguistic Anthropology, whereby students benefit from a program grounded in sociocultural and sociolinguistic theory.
  
  
• Folklore/Public Culture
  Supervised by the Graduate Studies Committee in Folklore and Public Culture, graduates of the program receive an M.A. or Ph.D. in Anthropology. The overall program is flexible, allowing each student to develop scholarly depth and breadth in historical, geographic, and cultural areas, as well as in genres, styles, theories, and methods germane to original research in the field.
  
  
• African Diaspora
  Offered through the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)
  
  
• Mexican-American Borderlands
  A graduate level thematic concentration on Mexican Americans. Graduate students will be able to take courses, or work with a professor in consultation, to study: Indigenous Heritage, Mexican History and Culture, Mexican American Culture, and/or The US-Mexico.
  

Activist Anthropology
The activist anthropology track at UT is distinctive at the national level in its central location within a theoretically-oriented graduate training program.

Anthropology students at The University of Texas have at their disposal a superb research library with vast holdings and an ongoing acquisition program. In addition, the department and The University offer unique resources and facilities for research and financial support which include: the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory; Radiocarbon Laboratory; Physical Anthropology Laboratory; Liberal Arts Media Center; Ethnomusicology Transcription Lab and Archives; Texas Memorial Museum; Centers for African/African-American, Asian, Latin American, Mexican American, Middle Eastern, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Benson Latin American Collection; The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies; Social Anthropology Media Lab and Linguistic Anthropology Computer Lab.