63 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in United States

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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 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. 

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. 

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

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

The University of Maryland School of Music provides an exceptional professional musical education within the context of a college of arts and humanities and a major research university. If offers this doctoral degree in Ethnomusicology.