Department of Anthropology

The WSU Anthropology Graduate Program is integrated across the Vancouver and Pullman campuses, with instruction and mentoring typically involving faculty on both the Pullman and Vancouver campuses. All three streams of our Anthropology program — Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology — are represented by faculty based on the Vancouver campus. We offer both an MA and PhD degree in all three streams.

Cultural and Archaeology students who wish to work specifically with Vancouver faculty typically complete a portion of their courses on the Pullman campus. Students in the Evolutionary stream have the option to complete their graduate program on the Vancouver or Pullman campus.

Most Pullman-based graduate courses are offered remotely to Vancouver students, and Pullman-based graduate students can take courses taught by Vancouver faculty. MA and PhD students whose committee chair is resident in Vancouver typically also have Pullman faculty on their committee, and Pullman students often have Vancouver faculty on their committees.

Our Anthropology Program is designed to take advantage of the research and instructional capacities across the WSU system. Students wishing to be based in Vancouver can mobilize a robust suite of resources both locally and in Pullman in support of their Graduate Studies.