Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
The Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology in Humanities and Social Sciences is offered by Harvard University.
Program Length: 5 YEARS.
The Department of Anthropology's Social Anthropology program offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a special emphasis on Media Anthropology.
Students are regular members of the graduate program in social anthropology, and all requirements for the Ph.D. in Anthropology pertain to those specializing in Media Anthropology. The Media Anthropology program is designed for students who wish to undertake practice-based research and make substantial ethnographic use of audiovisual media in their doctoral work.
The Department of Anthropology's Social Anthropology program also offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a special emphasis on Medical Anthropology.
Medical anthropologists and other faculty at Harvard work on a variety of theoretical and ethnographic issues, including: violence, urban anthropology, mental illness and cross-cultural psychiatry, subjectivity and culture, social suffering, stigma, ethics and bioethics, human rights, pharmaceuticals, substance abuse, infectious disease and epidemics, aging, governmentality, transnationalism and borders, and history of medicine and science.