63 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in United States

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 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. 

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

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.

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 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 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 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. 

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.

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 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.