Programs and Subdisciplines

The Department of Anthropology offers specialization in the following subdisciplines:

• 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.
  
  

The Department also offers degrees in the following three programs:

• 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.