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NRC Rankings Overview: Anthropology - Faculty. Anthropology. Anthropology Without Doctorates. The majority of people who earn terminal master's degrees in anthropology identify themselves as professional anthropologists and credit their degrees with playing a big part in their career satisfaction, according to a study commissioned by the American Anthropological Association.

Anthropology Without Doctorates

The study, called "The Changing Face of Anthropology," was carried out by the association's Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology, and is the widest-ranging effort undertaken to track master's degrees in the discipline. Even though the master's is the most common postsecondary graduate anthropology degree earned -- the number of master's degrees conferred in 2004 was about triple the number of doctorates that year, the authors note -- information on what happens to graduates after they leave the academy has been largely absent until now.

"Despite their numbers, the perception is that M.A.' Few of these untested perceptions held true. Respondents listed a surprising range of jobs. In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Department of Anthropology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 PhD, University of California - Davis 2003 Global healthDemographyNutritional adaptationAfrica My research centers on the social and cultural production of health and is at the intersection of anthropological demography, population studies, public health nutrition, and population health.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

I am interested in issues of food insecurity and how uncertain and unpredictable household environments influence physical and mental wellbeing across the life course and across generations. ANT 201 Concepts and Methods in Biological AnthropologyANT 311 Nutritional AnthropologyANT 385 Introduction to Global Health ANT 585 Biocultural approaches to food and nutritionANT 585 Demographic Anthropology (Spring 09)

In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. The Application Deadline is December 1st of each year.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

Emory University's Ph.D. Program in Anthropology offers: highly productive faculty with a broad range of research interestsclose faculty mentoring for graduate studentsa high level of stipend support and funding for additional traininga strong record of graduate student success in receiving research grantsan admirable record of placing graduates in desirable positions nationwide Each year, Emory's doctoral program in Anthropology receives applications from a large number of highly qualified national and international candidates.

Students with research interests in any area of biological or cultural anthropology are encouraged to apply. Application Deadline The application deadline is December 1st of each year. The Recruitment Process and Evaluation of Candidates Only students applying for a full-time study doctoral degree (Ph.D.) are admitted to the graduate program. Graduate Program — Anthropology — College of Arts and Sciences — Georgia State University. In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. Re-generating civic engagement and community conversations through generative theater, storytelling, ethnography, and multi-platform projects.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

Mission The Re-Generation Initiative is an experiment in creating conversations across and within generations about our relations to media, civic life, and each other. In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. In my research I study citizenship, development, and social change in East Africa.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

I am specifically interested in how people in contemporary African contexts organize politically, engage policy structures, and vie for voice and economic resources amidst other everyday pursuits of livelihood, human connection, and meaning. In pursuing these questions, I have conducted ethnographic and historical research in the drought-prone Singida region of central Tanzania since 2002. In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. Professor; Director, Master's in Development Practice Program Department of Anthropology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 PhD Columbia University 1988 Sociocultural anthropologyPolitical economicsAgrarian societyState and nation buildingRace and ethnicityKnowledge and empireSymbolism and powerLatin America David Nugent has done field research in the eastern Canadian arctic on Inuit subsistence patterns, in east Africa on government-sponsored sorcery eradication, in the Peruvian Andes on state formation and underground political movements, and in the western U.S. on indigenous land and water rights.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

In Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University. Professor Knauft's research combines politico-economic and cultural analysis across different world areas.

in Atlanta, Georgia at the Anthropology Department, Emory University

He is particularly interested in issues of collective and individual subjectivity in relation to structures of social inequality and political domination or disempowerment, both historically and in the present. Across geographic and temporal scales, Dr. Zero Anthropology Project. Should I Pursue Anthropology?: Only if You Can Deal with the Elephant Under the Rug and the Skeletons in the Closet - Stacie Gilmore. The enthusiasm with which the American Anthropological Association touts the value of anthropology is unfortunate.

Should I Pursue Anthropology?: Only if You Can Deal with the Elephant Under the Rug and the Skeletons in the Closet - Stacie Gilmore

I got my B.A. in anthropology in 2008, have worked non-profit community jobs ever since, and am now pursuing K-12 teaching. What drove me to the field of cultural anthropology was its down-to-earth focus on everyday life and the life of a community, and I don’t think I’m alone (see, for example, “The Scientific Curmudgeon”). More specifically, I wanted to get actively involved and hoped that applied anthropology was the key.

Anthropology: Worst Major for Corporate Tool, Best to Change Your Life. It’s official.

Anthropology: Worst Major for Corporate Tool, Best to Change Your Life

In August 2012, Kiplinger declares anthropology is the worst major for your career. Forbes follows suit October 2012: Anthropology is the worst major. From Florida Governor Scott’s we don’t need anthropologists to Frank Bruni singling out anthropology in the New York Times, I’m tired of playing defense. We’ve worked hard to get to #1. Anthropology is the worst major for being a corporate tool.