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Translation and Intercultural Studies
The Translation and Intercultural Studies programme offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona develops advanced research expertise in multilingual communication, translation, and intercultural analysis.
Public Health - Health Policy and Organization
The Doctor of Public Health - Health Policy and Organization (HPO) program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham provides training in public health leadership, strategic management, and empirical research skills.
Political Science
The doctoral program in Political Science at Wayne State University prepares students with a strong intellectual interest in political science for careers in academia, government, non-profit organizations and private-sector research firms.
Politics
The Ph.D. program in Politics at New York University is an intellectually vibrant home for students interested in pursuing academic careers focused on the analytically rigorous study of politics.
Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology
Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology at Boston College prepares graduate students to serve diverse populations in a variety of professional roles as teachers and researchers in colleges and universities and as researchers and leaders in applied settings, including schools, government agencies, and health and human services organizations.
Law and Communication
The joint Law and Communication JD/Ph.D. degree program at Stanford University offers students the opportunity to pursue academic, public policy, and private practice careers at the intersection of a variety of cutting edge debates in theory and policy.
Sociology
Building on core knowledge in social theory and in research methods, students at Boston University specialize in diverse subfields within Sociology. Students pursue original research that contributes to the field, laying a foundation for academic and non-academic careers.
Sociocultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropologists in the department share a belief that study and research must be firmly grounded in rigorous training in general social and cultural theory, both in contemporary writings and in the classics of anthropology and sociology. We offer a Sociocultural Anthropology degree at New York University.
Gender and Women's Studies
The PhD in Gender and Women's Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison provides advanced training in feminist gender analysis for students from a variety of academic backgrounds and career plans.
Psychology - Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience
The Graduate Program in Psychology at Georgetown University offers a fully funded five-year, full-time program of study leading to a Ph.D. in Psychology - Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience.
Culture, Literacy and Language
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.
Cognitive Psychology
Explore how the mind works in subfields like language processing, emotion, memory, word recognition, visual cognition, perception, online communication and attention. This Cognitive Psychology program is offered at the University at Albany.
Communication
The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in Communication at Wayne State University is designed to establish and maintain high standards of scholarly activity while providing excellence in academic instruction at both the theoretical and applied levels.
Indo-European Studies
PIES is the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Indo-European Studies, leading to the degrees of MA and Ph.D.
Classical Archaeology
Classical Archaeology at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has remained a nationally recognized strength of the Department of Classics for over 50 years.
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
The PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of the field.
Experimental Psychology
The discipline of experimental psychology involves application of rigorous scientific experimental methods to the study of psychology and its underlying neural processes. This PhD in Experimental Psychology is offered at The University of Manchester.
Government
The mission of the Government Department Ph.D. program at Georgetown University is to provide students with the analytical skills and substantive knowledge needed to both generate and evaluate research in political science, preparing them for careers at the highest levels of scholarship and teaching.
Criminology
The University of Iowa's new PhD Program in Criminology offers rigorous training in criminological and sociological theory, a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, and two cutting edge substantive areas - Inequality, Crime & Justice and International & Comparative Criminology.
Anthropology
Anthropology is devoted to the study of human beings and human societies as they exist across time and space. This program is offered at Stanford University.