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Understand the cultural, social and linguistic dimensions of education
We spend time learning from people around the world. Our program offers insight to better understand inequalities, cultural differences, linguistic diversity, and the wealth of human life for educational purposes. Our students become productive scholars, practitioners, and activists.
TC Anthro at the 2023 AES Conference
Congratulations to current students and faculty in the TC Anthro community who are presenting at the American Ethnological Society Conference at Princeton University.
Ximena Bunster: The First Anthropology Program Alum
Bunster graduated with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from TC in 1968. She became the youngest university professor in Chile at age 23, and was the first Latin American woman to win a Fulbright scholarship. Read more about Bunster's legacy and the recent discovery of her personal library here.
TC Anthro at the 2022 AAA Annual Meeting
Congratulations to current students, alumni and faculty in the TC Anthro community who are presenting at the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meeting in Seattle.
Welcome to the Anthropology program
Anthropology is positioned to answer some of the toughest questions of education and policy-making because of its emphasis on spending time with and learning from people. Our program highlights participatory ethnography: engaging in and observing human activities and conversing with people as a means of improving education and collaborating with local groups and organizations. We offer one of the only master's programs in Anthropology and Education in the world and we offer a unique outlook on how to understand and support diverse approaches to education in and outside the classroom.
Our two doctoral programs help student develop the complex theoretical and methodological issues involved in the application of anthropological knowledge and approaches to matters of policy concern in medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, economic and community development, education, businesses and corporations, institutional programs, and ecological and environmental change.
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TA’ing as a TC Anthro Student
Teaching is often a quintessential part of the graduate student experience. At TC, finding a teaching assistant position can be intimidating and challenging because we usually have to go ‘across the street’ to find opportunities in departments that sometimes seem opaque and mysterious. Nevertheless, every semester, TC students in the TC anthro program take on […]
Andrew Wortham (PhD ’21) on his dissertation research, joining the academic work force, and finding teaching opportunities.
Andrew Wortham is a Lecturer at Kunming University of Science and Technology in the Yunnan Province of Southwest China. He is an incoming postdoctoral fellow at NYU Shanghai. His research focuses on the creation of LGBTQIA communities around HIV/AIDS organizations in Yunnan. Can you start by telling me a little bit about yourself, your research […]
Rongwei Tang (MA ’22) on applying for PhDs, IP writing, and making the most of the TC experience
Rongwei Tang is a second year MA student studying the dissemination of Chinese intangible cultural heritage on Chinese social media. She was recently accepted into the Mass Communication Doctoral Program at the University of Minnesota and will be attending in the fall. First of all, congrats on your acceptance to your PhD program! Thank you! […]
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- Master of Arts
- Master of Education
- Doctor of Education
- Doctor of Philosophy