Brown University has offered doctoral and master's degrees in anthropology since the 1960s. Today, its graduates, trained for professional careers in socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics, are employed in a range of teaching, research, and museum positions, as well as in other fields where anthropological expertise is required.

Department of Anthropology faculty are trained as social and cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and anthropological linguists. They have wide-ranging but also overlapping and complementary theoretical, and methodological research interests-- among them anthropological demography, politics, development studies, ethnicity, gender, historical and maritime archaeology, historical anthropology, linguistics and cognition, medical anthropology, and museum studies. They have conducted research throughout the world--in North and South America, the Arctic, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia; Africa, Europe and European-America, and Circumpolar North, are especially well represented. Click here for Faculty Profiles.

Graduate Program Advisor: Philip Leis

Click here to view current graduate student profiles, and a list of past M.A. and Ph.D. theses from the department. ).