Graduate program in anthropology archaeology

The graduate program in archaeology at Michigan State University encompasses a broad range of potential research specialties, with students engaged in fieldwork, collections research, and heritage management in North and Mesoamerica, Europe, the Mediterranean, sub-Sahara Africa, and the Near East. Program faculty have expertise in landscape archaeology, cultural heritage, frontiers, mortuary archaeology, gender, experimental archaeology, digital archaeology, the foraging/farming transition, and paleoenvironmental change, among others. Graduate students successfully compete for external funding from multiple sources, including the National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, Fulbright Hays and IIE, FLAS, as well as programmatic and institutional sources. The archaeology graduate program has strong linkages to MSU area study centers, the MSU Museum, MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, and other university departments, as well as collaborative inter-institutional research ties, which provides our students with a flexible choice of individual program options tailored to their specific interests. Important institutionally centered programs include the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (CHI), Campus Archaeology (CAP), and MSU Museum curation. Archaeology program participants are expected to enroll in the anthropology department core graduate curriculum, in addition to specialized archaeological theory and methods requirements. Graduates of the MSU archaeology program are employed in academia, government, and the private sector. Archaeology program faculty invite and welcome communication from prospective graduate students with aligned research interests.