Our PhD program will provide you with a research-intensive experience alongside close academic mentorship. Our coursework and candidacy process facilitates professional and academic development. You’ll engage deeply with anthropology’s conventional disciplines through our core integrative themes:
Culture, Health and Inequality
Evolution and Ecology
Space, Place, Knowledge and Power
Visual Anthropology and Materiality
We strongly support doctoral students working in community-engaged contexts, as well as those pushing the boundaries of conventional fieldwork and lab techniques.
Outcomes
Our department structures doctoral students’ learning experiences to reflect the content, values and skills of our dynamic contemporary discipline.
Students in this program will:
encounter a breadth and depth of anthropological ways of knowing from a multiplicity of perspectives
engage deeply with the current state of knowledge within the chosen topic/area
gain in-depth, multifaceted knowledge of particular peoples, processes, places and histories
contribute original research to an important question in the discipline
conduct fieldwork and/or work in the lab to generate valued knowledge informed by experience
articulate a complex research proposal and communicate research results
develop second language competency to aid in scholarly communications and/or fieldwork
undergo professional development as a scholarly practitioner of anthropology
practice project management skills including time management, data management, quality control
practice accountability and leadership
foster respectful, reciprocal, and collaborative partnerships
engage in sustained community relationships
understand and employ ethical principles, relationship and practices
understand and navigate ethical dilemmas involved in different forms of anthropological research
cultivate personal and professional integrity and accountability
Expected January 2025
Start date
Expected September 2025
Faculty of Social Sciences
Business & Economics Bldg 4th Floor (Reception Room 456),
3800 Finnerty Road (Ring Road),
VICTORIA,
British Columbia (BC),
V8P 5C2, Canada
You must have a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree (thesis- or project-based) in anthropology. You must have a minimum grade of A- (7.0 GPA) in your master’s program
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language): We require a minimum score of 90 from the internet-based TOEFL (IBT). You must also score at least 20 points each in the listening, speaking, reading and writing sections.
IELTS (International English Language Testing System): We require minimum overall band score of 6.5 on the IELTS. No individual component can have a score lower than 6.0.
MET (Michigan English Test): A score of 64 on the MET will be accepted as proof of English proficiency.
Application deadlines
September – apply by January 15
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.