Department of Anthropology (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://www.cla.purdue.edu/anthropology/

Department/School Head:

Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum

Admission Requirements:

GRE scores; Writing Sample (PhD applicants only); Summary of provisional PhD research topic (PhD applicants only)

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

MS in Anthropology; PhD in Anthropology

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

African American Studies; Anthropology Concentration in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (MS and PhD); Applied Anthropology; Ingestive Behavior (PhD only)

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor:

Evelyn Blackwood, Richard Blanton, Ellen Gruenbaum, Riall Nolan, Melissa Remis

Associate Professor:

Myrdene Anderson, Sherylyn Briller, Michele Buzon, H. Kory Cooper, Brian Kelly, Ian Lindsay, Laura Zanotti

Assistant Professor:

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Jennifer Lee Johnson, LaShandra Sullivan, Amanda Veile

Programs

• Anthropology, PHD

• Anthropology, MS

Courses

• ANTH 50400 - Problems In World Prehistory
• ANTH 50500 - Culture And Society
• ANTH 50600 - The Development Of Modern Anthropology
• ANTH 50700 - Theory In Sociocultural Anthropology
• ANTH 51400 - Anthropological Linguistics
• ANTH 51900 - Introduction To Semiotics
• ANTH 53400 - Human Osteology
• ANTH 53500 - Foundations Of Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 53600 - Primate Ecology
• ANTH 56500 - Sociolinguistics
• ANTH 57500 - Economic Anthropology
• ANTH 58900 - Archaeology And Materials Science
• ANTH 59000 - Individual Research Problems
• ANTH 59200 - Selected Topics In Anthropology
• ANTH 60500 - Seminar In Ethnographic Analysis
• ANTH 60600 - The Conduct Of Anthropological Inquiry
• ANTH 60900 - Seminar In Anthropology
• ANTH 61100 - Special Topics In Archaeology
• ANTH 62000 - Special Topics In Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 67300 - Seminar In The Anthropology Of Religion
• ANTH 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• ANTH 69900 - Research PhD Thesis