Your gift will provide seed funding for anthropology Ph.D. students to engage in field research towards completion of their dissertation.
Our doctoral students are creative interdisciplinary researchers who graduate to become leading figures in academia and governmental institutions. In pursuit of their dissertation, many students embark on field research to collect data that informs groundbreaking research in their subfield of anthropology.
Financial support for field study allows students to travel far and wide while eliminating barriers to completing their doctoral studies. These stipends allow our students to apply their expertise through real-world research and help the department attract top candidates ready to make an impact.