About the Department of Anthropology Postgraduate Programme

Tears of remorse, East Java


Dance of Qet, Vanuatu


Abbot's funeral, Thailand

Academic staff in the Anthropology Department are full-time researchers dedicated to the professional training of doctoral (PhD) students in Anthropology. Academic staff, however, also actively participate in the three Anthropology masters degree programmes offered at the ANU:

• Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD)
• Masters of Philosophy in Anthropology (MPhil)
• Masters of Arts in Anthropology (MA)

and contribute to the teaching of undergraduate and honours courses in a variety of fields including Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Pacific Studies.

The Department attracts top student applicants from around the world. Currently, 28 enrolled doctoral candidates are from overseas universities and 13 are from Australia and New Zealand. As a special priority, the Department seeks to recruit and train students from the Asia Pacific region. Departmental staff, students and visitors take regular advantage of the numerous interdisciplinary contacts with scholars elsewhere in RSPAS,

• Ethnographic Film Unit
• Department of Human Geography
• Gender Relations Centre
• Department of Linguistics
• Department of Political and Social Change
• Division of Pacific and Asian History
• Contemporary China Centre
• Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
• State, Society, and Governance in Melanesia Project

as well as with anthropologists in other sectors of the University including:

• School of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Centre for Cross Cultural Research
• Centre for Aboriginal Economic and Political Research

For more information on the Department or programmes, contact: Fay Castles, Department Administrator