82 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in North America

The joint PhD Programs in Social Policy at Harvard University combine the disciplinary depth of a PhD in political science or sociology with multidisciplinary perspectives and problem-driven research on questions of social policy.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Geography - Neotropical Environment offered by the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Science at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes interdisciplinary and comprehensive learning opportunities. 

This is the first program in the United States that combines the strengths of major German and American Research I universities to create a truly joint international Ph.D. program in Transcultural German Studies at The University of Arizona. 

The Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies program at the University of Miami is designed primarily to prepare students for careers as university professors and research scholars. Students develop advanced language, teaching, and research skills that lend themselves to other professions, as well.

The Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES) has been a leader in the study of the Middle East since 1927, when it was founded as the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures. The Near Eastern Studies program is offered by Princeton University.

The Education, Culture, and Society course at Rutgers University is designed to attract a diverse cohort of students who desire systematic and rigorous advanced study of theoretical and practical issues of social and educational equity, change, and reform. 

The Religion program is a cooperative program between the Departments of Religion at Columbia University, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary. 

The phd program from York University focuses on the theory and practice of Communication and Culture.

New York University’s Department of History offers a Ph.D. concentration in the study of the Atlantic World.

The Graduate School at University of Washington offers the Interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. (IPhD) Program for exceptionally able students whose objectives for study are interdisciplinary and require supervision from faculty in two or more UW programs that offer Ph.D. degrees. 

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a degree in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures.

The University of Pittsburgh's graduate program in Hispanic Languages and Literatures is one of the top graduate programs in Latin American literature and cultural studies in the United States.

In the Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (LACS) Concentration of the Spanish PhD program at the University at Albany, you’ll analyze how globalization, migration, and transnationalism are forging new hemispheric visions of Latin American and Caribbean studies. 

The University of Pittsburgh’s graduate program in Africana Studies is led by faculty trained in Africana Studies as well as other disciplines from the humanities and social sciences.

The reputation of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky is based on the department's long, outstanding history and a tradition of exciting and innovative scholarship on the part of its faculty.

The graduate Near Eastern Studies program at Johns Hopkins University, the oldest of its kind in the nation, is designed to train professional scholars and teachers in four main areas: Egyptology, Assyriology, Northwest Semitic languages and literatures (including Hebrew Bible), and Near Eastern archaeology and art. 

The Ph.D. program in Africana Studies at Brown University provides a firm base for graduate students to create new and innovative knowledge within the discipline as well as develop cutting-edge scholarship that contributes to the broader academy and public life.

Applicants to the PhD program at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign normally must hold a master's degree in East Asian studies or a related discipline with an East Asian Languages and Cultures concentration.

The mission of the Department of African Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison is to provide research and teaching in the languages and expressive cultures of Africa and Africans around the world. 

The Slavic Languages and Literatures program at the University of Pittsburgh encourages interdisciplinary work in training future scholars in Slavic Studies and it prepares students to be competitive on the national job market.