82 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in North America

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Religious Studies offered by the School of Religious Studies in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes interdisciplinary and tailored learning opportunities. 

The graduate program in Near Eastern studies emphasizes the languages, literatures, history, and cultures of the Near East. The Near Eastern Studies program is offered by Cornell University.

The Department of Jewish Studies at the McGill University offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Judaica. It welcomes students interested in deepening their knowledge of Jewish history and Jewish texts.

The interdisciplinary program in Applied Intercultural Arts Research program from The University of Arizona is managed by the Graduate College and offers a Master of Arts and a PhD in partnership with six other academic colleges: Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Science, Social and Behavioral Science, and Public Health. 

The only Anglophone university in Canada to offer comprehensive Folklore programs at all levels, Memorial University of Newfoundland is also a vital part of its community - one steeped in unique lifestyles and traditions, and where the study and celebration of culture and heritage is considered crucial.

Graduates of Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University leave with the historical knowledge, linguistic skills, and interpretive methodologies necessary to undertake scholarly research on and to teach literature in at least two languages.

Our Culture and Performance programs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are devoted to academic and artistic excellence, diversity, freedom of expression, activism, and social transformation through the arts.

Make an original contribution to Canadian scholarship. Join the national conversation as part of the only interdisciplinary Canadian Studies doctorate program in the country, offered at the Trent University.

This Culture, Literacy and Language PhD program at The University of Texas at San Antonio focuses on the interrelatedness of culture, literacy and language and is designed to provide a firm foundation in the fields of cultural studies, literacy development, and language learning and use.

At the Brown University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

Our program in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies at Georgetown University emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach in which attention to primary texts and critical theory is combined with audiovisual, historical and philosophical perspectives so that students can develop their research skills to the fullest. 

As an interdisciplinary academic department at The University of New Mexico, Native American Studies is committed to Indigenous academic scholarship and research excellence. 

Organized by the theoretical and interdisciplinary emphasis of critical and cultural studies, the Critical and Cultural Studies doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh fosters challenging and inventive work in the ongoing project of English studies, broadly conceived.

The Critical Cultural Studies program at University of Utah provides rigorous theoretical and methodological training across the spectrum of communication studies.

We offer a Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies phd degree at the University of Georgia.

At the University of Alberta, we offer our graduate students a PhD program degree in Native Studies.

At the University of California, Davis, the Native American Studies Graduate Group’s interdisciplinary and hemispheric approach includes attention to the increasing diaspora of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, and calls upon the authority of native intelligence to address the issues that concern native peoples. 

The Computational Social Science program at the University of California, San Diego brings together classes and community across the Division of Social Sciences.

The Literary and Cultural Studies program offered by University of Memphis emphasizes the importance of discourse in structuring human experience.

The Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE) Ph.D. option at Washington State University is a rigorous, flexible, and individually-tailored course of study that focuses on the issues of culture and power in the contemporary and historical contexts of education.