251 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies

Literature, Culture and Thought at University of Cambridge supports interdisciplinary projects that by virtue of their design clearly transcend or stand outside any one Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. 

The DPhil in Area Studies (Middle East) is a research-based course exploring the Middle East through interdisciplinary approaches, covering politics, history, religion, literature, and social anthropology. The Area Studies (Middle East) programme is offered at University of Oxford.

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 Culture Studies programme offers flexible supervision between the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and the University of Nottingham (UK). 

Korean Studies from Yonsei University is designed to address the diverse professional and academic objectives of today's students.

The Kurdish Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter is an Area Studies department grounded in multidisciplinary approaches to research and training.

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. 

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

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.

Undertaking a PhD in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at University of Leeds will allow you to become an expert in a specialist area.

The Clinton Institute at University College Dublin was originally established as a centre for American Studies and we have run teaching and research programmes in this interdisciplinary field as well as public events on contemporary American topics.

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.

Maori Studies at University of Otago is an entry point for students wishing to engage with knowledge about the Māori world. It is a broad programme dedicated to the study of te reo Māori (Māori language), tikanga Māori (Māori customary lore) and aspects of te ao Māori (the Māori world).

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.

The Translation and Intercultural Studies programme offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona develops advanced research expertise in multilingual communication, translation, and intercultural analysis.

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.

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. 

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