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The Cultural Program
Cultural
Anthropology at SMU offers two degree programs: the M.A. in Medical Anthropology and the
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. In the Ph.D. program students are broadly trained in
courses
in contemporary theory and method in anthropology and specialize in one
of two tracks: Medical Anthropology or Globalization and
International Development. Students can petition to combine these
specializations.
The
Medical Anthropology
specialization assures broad training in contemporary theory and method in
anthropology to prepare students for both academic and non-academic
positions. Among specific fields of
interest are gender and health, reproduction and sexuality, ethnomedicine,
chronic diseases, political economy of health, international health,
bioethics, and health, immigration and development.
Courses in the medical
anthropology track explore health, healing, and ethics in cross-cultural
perspective, including a focus on the culture and practices of
biomedicine. Our program has established links with the SMU
Women’s Studies Program and the Maguire
Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. The University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center also provides opportunities for
research and involvement with the Ethics
in Science and Medicine Program.
The
Globalization and International Development
topical / theoretical
specialization allows students to focus on key issues in global
transformation. Core courses examine theories of sociocultural, economic,
and political change in the context of globalization, as well as
practice/applied approaches to important global issues. Critical processes
such as ethnic conflict/identity formation, nationalism, and global
population movements and trans-nationalism are examined and
highlighted.
For
more information about our specific research interests, follow the links
to individual faculty:
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The
Archaeology Program
The
Archaeology program at SMU is focused on the New World, with faculty
research interests ranging in time from the earliest hunter-gatherers to
complex societies, and geographically across North, Middle, and South
America.
The
program offers courses
in archaeological theory, methods, and scientific applications, and is
strongly field-oriented. Current projects are in the North
American High Plains and desert
Southwest, in the Maya
Lowlands, and in coastal Peru. It provides graduate students with
a wide array of field and related laboratory research opportunities.
The
program also provides training and help in obtaining funding for your
dissertation research – whether or not you are part of an ongoing,
already-funded research program.
The
Department has established links to the Clements
Center for Southwest Studies in the Department of History, and to
the Fort Burgwin Research Center
on the SMU campus outside Taos, New Mexico. Facilities in the Department
and University include extensive archaeological laboratories, computer
facilities and research and teaching collections; paleontological
collections (in the Shuler Museum of Paleontology); and, through the
Geology Program and the Institute
for the Study of Earth and Man, laboratories for conducting
scanning electron microscopy and microprobe analyses,
pollen analysis, and
stable isotope
geochemistry. The University libraries have extensive holdings in New
World archaeology, as well as archival holdings on the American Southwest.
For
more information about our specific research interests, follow the links
to individual faculty:
Emeritus faculty:
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