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General Description / Special Programs
Archaeology, cognitive anthropology, contemporary problems and culture change, cultural heritage, evolution of sociopolitical complexity, geographic information systems (GIS), human biology, human land use, medical anthropology, morphology, museum management, and primatology. Special interests pursued principally in research in: Africa, the Americas, including North America (north-contemporary Indians, Inuit, urban North America, also Northeast US prehistory), the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, Europe (including Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age and historic periods and contemporary studies)
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Tuition Info
See university website, www.buffalo.edu
Degrees
Degrees Offered Anthropology PhD, MA, BA major/minor
Highest Degree Offered PhD
BA/BS Field Areas
Anthropology
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
BA/BS Requirements
39 credit hours required. Three (3) Introductory courses: APY 106 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, APY 107 Introduction to Physical Anthropology, APY 108 Introduction to Archaeology. Nine (9) Anthropology courses, including: (2) area studies; (2) problem oriented or theoretical; (1) theory overview; (1) senior seminar; (3) elective anthropology courses; (1) statistics course; plus Practicum experience.
MA/MS Field Areas
Anthropology
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Experience Offered
Internship
MA/MS
MA/ MS Requirements 30 credit hours required. First year: completion of 6 formal courses and submission of a research proposal, plus optional written examination. Second year: completion of 6 courses and a research thesis.
MA/MS Specializations Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology.
PhD Field Areas
Anthropology
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Phd
Phd Requirements 72 credit hours required, including successful completion of: 15 formal courses; the first year qualifying examination; original research paper; advanced examination; dissertation proposal defense; dissertation defense. Additionally, completion of subdiscipline requirements (see website for details).
Other Degree Field Areas
Critical Museum Studies
Internship / Grants / Funding
Internships Available 1
Internship Required 0
Grants Or Funding Competitive assistantships available for qualified students.
Support Opportunities Special Minority Fellowships; Presidential and Dean's Fellowships.
Program Details
Research Facilities Physical anthropological lab with complete skeletal research collection, nonhuman primate fetal collection, and thermometric equipment. Archaeology boasts a good teaching and Northeast US research collection, darkroom facilities, a large research and study collection from Teotihuacan, Mexico, fully outfitted GIS lab. Library has a complete set of the HRAF (paper and electronic). Cultural resources include ethnographic films, video recording equipment and playback stations for fine-grained analysis of recorded behavior. Additionally, the Department offers: an Anthropology Research Museum; a multimedia laboratory.
Library Resources Extensive Anthropology library, Samuel M. Paley Library
Certs Offered 0
Contacts
Affiliations
Institute of European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA); Center for European Studies (CEUS); Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB)
Online Courses
Online Courses: 0
Club / Honor Society
Anthropology Club: 1
Lambda Alpha Chapter: 1