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Graduate

With a diversified faculty, the Purdue graduate program offers training in all four subfields of anthropology (click here to read more about the subfields). Faculty specializations include the anthropology of religion, semiotics, gender, kinship, economic anthropology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, South America, the Nile Valley and Central Asia, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, medical anthropology, human health and aging, women's health, reproductive ecology and primate behavioral studies. The courses taken during the first two years develop a four-field foundation for subsequent specialized research. Our program emphasizes personalized intensive instruction and interaction with graduate student peers. 

Faculty research interests include Jewish communities in Denmark; Saami pastoralists; rural communities in West Sumatra, Indonesia; lowland gorilla social organization and ecology in the Central African Republic; health in indigenous populations in the Indian Himalayas; health of older adults in the United States; settlement archaeology in Mexico; cross-cultural research; craft production, household archaeology, and provenance analysis in the Andes; bioarchaeology in the Nile Valley; comparative youth cultures and psychoactive substance use. Graduate student research has been undertaken in India, Bangladesh, Morrocco, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Appalachia, and the midwestern United States.

For more information, please contact the Graduate Committee secretary, Celeste Kozlovsky, at ckozlovs@purdue.edu or (765) 494-4673

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