Transcript University of Toronto ANTHROPOLOGY Graduate Studies

What this all means for you:
University of Toronto
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Our total population
is about 83,000 students and 11,500
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Labs 16,000 graduate students. One in eight of
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these are international.
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faculty
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Department of
Anthropology
• Officially established at the University of Toronto in 1936. Since
that time, more than 330 Ph.D. degrees and 600 Masters
degrees have been conferred in the Department.
• Currently we have over 170 graduate students registered in
graduate programs
Department of
Anthropology
• Over half of all our Ph.D. graduates, are employed in tenurestream or tenured positions in universities in Canada, United
States, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Great
Britain, Japan, Philippines, Italy, Malaysia, and Australia.
About a quarter of our Ph.D. graduates are employed in
museums, government agencies, or research and consulting
groups in Canada and abroad.
• For virtual tour of the department see: http://goo.gl/mFrfbx
Graduate Programs
Master of Arts and Master of Science
• The Department offers a Master of Arts degree program in the
five sub-fields of Anthropology and a Master of Science
degree program, normally in archaeology, medical
anthropology, and evolutionary anthropology.
• M.A. is usually 12 months and M.Sc. is usually 24 months of fulltime study
Graduate Programs
Doctor of Philosophy
• Usually four to five years
• Program requirements: at least six half course credits,
language requirement and thesis proposal defense which are
typically completed in one to two years.
• PhD research starts upon enrolment in the program and
culminates in the submission of a thesis and final oral
examination
• Direct entry to Ph.D. program from undergraduate degree is
offered to excellent students.
Financial Support
All graduate students admitted to a graduate program and in good
academic standing are supported through a combination of
research assistantships, teaching assistantships, University of Toronto
Fellowships in combination with external awards.
• Master’s students are assured the minimum funding for one year
• PhD students are assured of funding for four years
Financial Support
Minimum funding: $15,000 plus tuition (including incidental fees
and health insurance if applicable).
Additional top ups provided for external award winners (eg. CIHR,
NSERC, OGS, SSHRC).
Students pay their own fees from the funding that they receive from
the department and or external awards.
Follow the money? Follow the vision? Not always the same thing!
Admissions
Deadlines:
December 7, 2015 - Ph.D. program: complete application
and supporting documents
January 18, 2016 - Master’s programs: complete
application and supporting documents
Admission requirements
Admission to a Master’s Program
• an appropriate Bachelor's degree, with a final year average of
at least B+ or its equivalent from a recognized university.
• students must have at least five full-year Anthropology courses (or
equivalent) with a minimum average of B+
• the department also welcomes applications from students with
competence in related fields.
Basic admission requirements
Admission to the Doctoral Program
• a Master's degree in anthropology (or a cognate subject)
• grades averaging the equivalent of a University of Toronto A- or
better in their last full year of study.
Direct Admission to the Doctoral Program
• a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a concentration in
anthropology
• A 3.85 GPA
Collaborative Programs
The Department of Anthropology offers graduate studies in
collaboration with the programs listed below. For collaborative
programs, students must first be admitted to a graduate program
in the Department. Many Collaborative Program requirements
fulfill Anthropology degree requirements, e.g., as elective courses.
Courses in a Collaborative Program may, however, exceed
minimum degree requirements in Anthropology and there may be
scheduling conflicts regarding required courses.
Collaborative Programs
Aboriginal Health
Addiction Studies
Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course
Asia-Pacific Studies
Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Dynamics of Global Change
Environmental Studies
Ethnic and Pluralism Studies
Global Health
Jewish Studies
Sexual Diversity Studies
South Asian Studies
Women's Health
Women & Gender Studies
Further details available at:
http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/graduate/copy_of_collaborative-programs
Topics of current graduate students (grant applications this year)
Indigenous women and self-harm
Global health as professional practice
Indigenous urbanness
Vulnerability assessment of coastal Inuvialult sites
Contested public spaces and female piety in Israel/Palestine
Aid paradox: Development and emergent forms of stigma
Sovereignty, Survival and the politics of everyday struggle
Reclaiming, Reformulating, and Reconstituting the Material Culture of the Métis
The effects of habitat fragmentation on dispersal behaviour and subsequent gene flow in the Endangered Mexican black howler monkey
The Ideologies of Cotton: Economic Change and Political Mobilization in Pakistan's Cotton Belt
A Study of Bone Following "Cardio-Pulmonary Death" as a Means of Distinguishing Perimortem Trauma & Postmortem Damage
People, environment and early Iroquoian social organization
Free expressions and sociocultural relations in Canada
A different interpretation of post-traumatic stress disorder based on the lived experience of Canadian soldiers and veterans
An ethnographic inquiry into labour and mobility in Dar es Salaam
The origin of agriculture in Shangshan culture, China
Young indigenous women and cultural resurgence in Canada and New Zealand
Governmentality, family and civil society in Japan’s Ikumen movement
Change and continuity of women’s roles in arctic skin clothing production
Framing the sex crisis in Iran
Precarious lives and intentional communities in Toronto
A spatial and archeological analysis of Buddhist terrace structures at Angkor Thom, Cambodia
Immortalization and repair of damaged DNA
Being Queer, becoming Old: an ethnographic exploration of possibilities
Developing a 3D forensic technique of determining the sex and ancestry of unidentified human remains
The infrastructure of Coca in the ancient Andes
Social dominance and the alpha woman
Understanding the Evolutionary Importance of Early Eurasian Catarrhine Primates
Growth and development of a late Miocene ape using Synchrotron radiation histology