New York University participates in the New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), a graduate training program in evolutionary primatology that includes City University, Columbia University, Wildlife Conservation International at the Bronx Zoo, and the American Museum of Natural History. The consortium provides an integrated training program that allows student to take courses, seminars, and internships at any of these institutions offered by approximately 30 physical anthropologists, primatologists, and vertebrae paleontologists participating in the program. ... read more »

This two year program prepares graduates to apply the principles and techniques of skeletal biology and genetic research in Physical Anthropology to a variety of contexts, including those in the Forensic Sciences (i.e., Medical Examiner’s office, Coroner’s office, Armed Forces, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Mass Disasters). The program can also be useful training for students who are preparing for admission to doctoral programs in skeletal biology and human evolution. Program includes 36 points of coursework, a laboratory or field internship, and a research-based M.A. thesis. ... read more »

The Departments of Anthropology and Cinema Studies offers a specialized joint course of study leading to a New York State Certificate in Culture and Media for NYU graduate students who are also pursuing their MA or PhD degrees in Anthropology or Cinema Studies.

The program’s philosophy takes a broad approach to the relationships between culture and media in a number of domains including: ethnographic film’s significance for the fields of anthropology and cinema/media studies; problems in representation of cultures through media; the development of media in indigenous, Diaspora, and non-Western communities; the emerging social and cultural formations shaped by new media practices; and the political economy shaping the production, distribution and consumption of media worldwide. ... read more »

The Departments of Anthropology and Cinema Studies offer a specialized joint course of study leading to a New York State Certificate in Culture and Media for NYU graduate students who are pursuing their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology or Cinema Studies. ... read more »

Faculty members Faye Ginsburg (Culture and Media) and Angela Zito (Religious Studies/ Anthropology) co-direct the interdisciplinary Center for Religion and Media, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts as part of their Centers of Excellence Program for 2003-2008. The Center, a joint project of the Religious Studies Program and the Center for Media, Culture, and History, develops and broadens interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship, pedagogy, and public knowledge of religion and media as a global phenomena with deep local roots. ... read more »

Faculty member Don Kulick directs the The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), which is among the few centers in the U.S. with a named emphasis on both gender and sexuality. The Center facilitates a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender and sexuality as keys to understanding human experience. CSGS's main activity is to organize events throughout the academic year, including seminars, panel discussions, film screenings, and conferences. These events provide a vital and lively meeting-place where scholars, students, artists, and activists can discuss issues involving gender and sexuality, and their intersections with other social phenomena such as race, religion, nation, class, ability/disability and ethnicity. The Center also co-sponsors events and conferences with schools and departments at NYU, and with other universities in the New York area. CSGS hosts visiting scholars from universities in the U.S. and abroad. It also houses a scholarly journal, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, published by Duke University Press. ... read more »

Faculty members Terry Harrison (Director), Tony Di Fiore, Cliff Jolly, Todd Disotell, Susan Anton, Randy White, Pam Crabtree, Rita Wright, and Shara Bailey. ... read more »

The Department of Anthropology and the Institute of French Studies offer a joint Ph.D. degree for students interested in the anthropology of France. The degree prepares for teaching and research as a Europeanist in departments of anthropology or as a civilization specialist in departments of French. ... read more »

The Anthropology Department is actively connected with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) of the Graduate School of Arts and Science. CLACS brings together University faculty specializing in Latin American and Caribbean research. Anthropology faculty members offer courses and guidance to students in this program, and anthropology students may construct special programs of study and research that utilize the resources offered by CLACS. The Center participates in a consortium with the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University that sponsors joint courses and conferences that New York University students may attend. Additional resources are available through faculty and graduate student collaboration with the programs of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center for the study of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. ... read more »

The Department of Anthropology offers a special area of study leading to the Ph.D. degree with a focus in Near Eastern and North African studies. This program enables anthropologists to acquire systematic training in a Near Eastern language as well as knowledge of the literature, history, and civilization of the Near East. It is intended for both sociocultural anthropologists and archaeologists. ... read more »

Urban Anthropology, as a specialized area of study in NYU's Anthropology Department, focuses on cities as centers of power where global, national and local processes, including those of the new media, synergically intersect. It does so by ethnographic study of those processes as experienced in the everyday lives of urbanities both in the USA and abroad. New York's institutions, agencies, businesses, and neighborhoods provide rich resources and training grounds for the study of such processes and for the development of urban theory and policy. The program encourages career development both inside and outside academia and has special requirements within the departmental curriculum. ... read more »