96 PhD programmes in Anthropology in North America

Dalhousie University's Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology programme offers you the chance to take advantage of faculty expertise and interest in three designated areas of departmental concentration. Many of the PhD students secure scholarships and pursue careers in academia, research, policy, and the non-profit sector.

This innovative Anthropology program from Colorado State University builds on the diverse research interests of our faculty who specialize in cultural anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology as well as human and physical geography.

The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Ph.D. program in Anthropology offers advanced training in integrating theory and research in order to better understand and solve the environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

The Ph.D. degree in Anthropology at The University of Iowa leads to the accomplishment of professional-level skills in conducting independent research, and normally features specialized training in one or two of the discipline’s subfields. Doctoral education is guided by a Ph.D. committee composed of members of the faculty competent in the particular areas and topics chosen by a student.

Anthropology (literally the study of humans) is an extremely broad and diverse field concerned with every aspect of the human condition: past, present and future. The Anthropology program is offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Anthropology Department at The Ohio State University offers both the MA and PhD degrees. The department includes 19 faculty with active research programs in archaeology, biological and cultural anthropology.  

Graduate training in the Field of Anthropology emphasizes sociocultural anthropology, with an additional concentration in archaeological anthropology; biological anthropology is primarily an undergraduate program except under special circumstances, particularly in international nutrition. The Anthropology program is offered by Cornell University.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anthropology - Neotropical Environment offered by the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes challenging and specialized learning opportunities. 

The Department of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley offers a PhD in Anthropology, with concentrations in Sociocultural Anthropology, Archaeology, or Biological Anthropology. 

Brown University's graduate Anthropology program encourages a diversity of doctoral research agendas in sociocultural anthropology, anthropological archaeology and linguistic anthropology.

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington is comprised of three principal anthropological sub-fields with which its faculty, programs, and curriculum are associated. 

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anthropology is the highest degree offered at Louisiana State University. 

At The University of Alabama, we offer a PhD program in Anthropology emphasizing two tracks of investigation: Archaeology of the Complex Societies of the Americas and Biocultural Medical Anthropology. 

The Department of Anthropology's doctoral program at Rice University offers advanced training in social/cultural anthropology and archaeology.

Students in the Anthropology program from University of California, Davis gain advanced knowledge of the evolution of primate and human behavior.

Dig deeper into the foundations of human society by developing your skills in an Anthropology subdiscipline at the University at Albany. Through a program of study tailored to your personal goals and interests you will acquire specialized training in archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and cultural anthropology.

Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Anthropology at Washington State University are offered in archaeology, cultural anthropology and evolutionary anthropology. 

The Anthropology (Complex Adaptive Systems Science) doctoral program at Arizona State University trains the next generation of scientists in advanced concepts and methods needed for approaching diverse phenomena in the social and life sciences.

At the graduate level Memorial University of Newfoundland offers a PhD program in Anthropology which requires ethnographic fieldwork. 

The department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba offers PhD programs in sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology.