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29 PhD programmes in Ethnic Studies

Human Rights, Society, and Multi-Level Governance
The Joint Doctorate (PhD) in Human Rights, Society, and Multi-Level Governance from University of Nicosia is an existing three-year, interdisciplinary, joint academic programme managed by the University of Padova in Italy, the University of Zagreb in Croatia, Western Sydney University in Australia and Panteion University, Athens in Greece.
Eurasian Studies
The Eurasian Studies program at Nazarbayev University is designed to train versatile and internationally competitive scholars by combining a core curriculum of key concepts in the humanities and social sciences, with practical training in necessary writing and research techniques, as well as rigorous subject-specific training across at least two disciplines
Palestine Studies
The Palestine Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter is an Area Studies department grounded in multidisciplinary approaches to research and training.
Ethnic and Migration Studies
The postgraduate education program in Ethnic and Migration Studies at Linköping University focuses on issues of international migration and ethnic relations, both from a Swedish and a global perspective
Law - Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
What makes the Law - Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program at The University of Arizona unique is its approach to legal education in the field of federal Indian law, tribal law and policy, and indigenous peoples human rights.
China Studies
The PhD in China Studies is a strategic research collaboration between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool.
Ethno-Political Studies
The Ethno-Political Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter is an Area Studies department grounded in multidisciplinary approaches to research and training.
Ethnic Studies
The Ethnic Studies program at the University of California, San Diego's primary emphasis on race and ethnicity encourages us to engage with social theories about identity and power.
Ethnology
At the Umea University, we offer our graduate students a phd programme degree in Ethnology. Doctoral education involves four years of full-time study, which includes a number of courses and a thesis.
Ethnology
The PhD studies in both Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University are part of the activities supported by the Faculty of Arts.
Migration, Gender and Generation
This Migration, Gender and Generation research area at The Open University UK looks at the interrelations between families and migration.
Critical Diversity Studies
This PhD degree in Critical Diversity Studies is offered by the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Musicology and Ethnomusicology
The Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology program at Boston University offers two tracks: Historical Musicology or Ethnomusicology, as well as a double concentration in Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology. It is primarily for students who are preparing to pursue research and teaching at a university, college, or conservatory.
Migration Studies
The Migration Studies programme from University of Kent offers high-quality supervision across a wide range of social and public policy areas seeking to research and examine causes and effects of global mobility.
Black Studies
This Black Studies PhD programme from the University of Nottingham is a place for the study of the history, literature and culture of black people (variously defined) in North America, as well as through their historical, cultural and political links to Africa, Britain, and other global sites.
Education, Culture and Society
The Ph.D. in Education, Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania provides a rigorous theoretical and methodological framework for the study of education, focusing on social, cultural, political, and normative dimensions.
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies
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.
Ethnic Studies
The Ethnic Studies graduate program at the University of California, Riverside engages in a critical, comparative and relational approach to ethnic studies.
Ethnomusicology
The Open University UK welcomes applications for PhD study in Ethnomusicology and ethnographic studies of music more broadly.
Indigenous
Designed for high performing university graduates, the Doctor of Philosophy (Indigenous) at James Cook University is a postgraduate research degree with a supervised project of original research at its core.