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  • Department of Anthropology
    328 Young Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-2742
    Fax: (916) 752-8885
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Anthropology

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Final: Dec. 1

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 1
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.A. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • A curricula vita and a writing sample of up to 10 pages (e.g., class paper, thesis, published article).

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of the evolution of primate and human behavior; behavioral ecology of nonhuman primates; cultural evolution; human evolution; hunter-gatherers; North American prehistory; archaeological theory; identity politics; critical theory; culture/power/ideology; gender and society; political economy/ecology; and urban anthropology. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in archaeology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, or social anthropology.

This is a departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Anthropology website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Li Zhang
(Department Chair) 		Anthropology (530) 752-1595
Christyann M Darwent
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Anthropology (530) 752-1590
James Smith
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Anthropology (530) 752-7503
Academic Advisers
Christyann M Darwent
(Adviser: Admissions and General) 		Anthropology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-1590
Alan M Klima
(Adviser: Admissions and General) 		Anthropology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-7319
James Smith
(Adviser: General) 		Anthropology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-7503
Li Zhang
(Adviser: Primary Contact) 		Anthropology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-1595
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Denise Besser Anthropology and Sociology (530) 752-4147
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292