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The Social and Cultural Anthropology programs
at CIIS offer a critical, activist approach to
education that prioritizes issues of social and
ecological justice in the context of a multicultural,
postcolonial world. Both the master's and doctoral
programs in Social and Cultural Anthropology emphasize
critical social analysis, diversity, constructive
imagination, and social action. Students explore
the intersections of thought and action, as well
as those of race, class, gender, and culture.
By doing so, they learn to integrate scholarship
and research with multicultural alliance-building
and community activism. They focus on creative
intervention by developing skills in intercultural
communication and strategic thinking.
Graduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
focus on issues of contemporary cultural critique,
development, globalization, identity politics,
nation-building, and environmental racism. The
programs emphasize a rigorous research curriculum
within the framework of advocacy, as well as participatory
and emancipatory research. Students engage critical
perspectives, including postcolonial, subaltern,
feminist, and poststructuralist, in order to build
capacity for leadership and create knowledge that
challenges dominant systems of truth.
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation
with an Emphasis in Gender, Ecology, Society
The master's program in Cultural Anthropology
and Social Transformation with an emphasis in
Gender, Ecology, and Society focuses on social
and ecological justice, critical inquiry, new
forms of cooperation, reciprocally beneficial
knowledge formation, and cultural diversity. The
program engages an interdisciplinary framework,
shifting the disciplinary boundaries that have
traditionally organized anthropology. It provides
students with the opportunity to explore contemporary
social relations in an historical, postcolonial,
and cross-cultural framework. Students also engage
in emancipatory research and social action.
The program facilitates self-reflection on one's
own cultural presuppositions as a prerequisite
for empathic engagement with the realities of
difference. It offers global perspectives, focusing
on understanding global systems through multiple
frameworks sensitive to dynamics of power. Graduates
of the M.A. program are prepared to embrace the
responsibilities of scholarship, research, and
advocacy rooted in an action approach to anthropology.
For more information, please see the online
catalog or call 415.575.6155.
Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
The Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
offers students an intensive education in the
principles, theories, methods, actions, and interventions
of anthropology within an interdisciplinary framework.
Students develop specialized skills that enable
them to practice an anthropology that is concerned
with ethics and with elaborating the boundaries
of the discipline. Students further benefit from
the cross-fertilization of ideas that results
from the ongoing dialogue among philosophers,
historians, psychologists, educators, sociologists,
and anthropologists—an integral part of the
CIIS Humanities program.
The doctoral program provides an academic setting
that appreciates and encourages intellectual and
activist pursuits. In this type of environment,
students are challenged to confront their own
embedded assumptions and cultural presuppositions
within interdisciplinary, multicultural, and cross-cultural
frameworks. The doctoral dissertation is based
on applied research, utilizing various critical
approaches conducive to scholarship with an emancipatory
interest. Graduates are prepared to embrace the
challenges of a scholarly career of research and
teaching that is rooted in an action approach
to anthropology. For more information, please
see the online catalog
or call 415.575.6155.
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