Graduate Studies
Students majoring in anthropology at Wheaton have gone on to pursue their academic training further in graduate programs throughout the United States and abroad.
See our getting started with Graduate School page.
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Department News
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Alumni Update: Megan Tibbs Americorp's National Civilian Community Corps
April 30, 2013After graduating from Wheaton, I was accepted to the Southwest campus for Americorp’s National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC). I flew out to Denver, Colorado, where I had a month of training then got placed in a team. My team’s first SPIKE (what we call projects) was in Crown King, Arizona, which is a tiny gold [...] -
Study Abroad Update: Connections to the World in the Heart of London
April 23, 2013This past fall semester, junior Anthropology major Emily Dewet studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a school in the University of London. SOAS specializes in the study of Africa and the Near and Middle East, with undergraduate and graduate students studying everything from social sciences to the arts. Located in historic [...] -
Professor Bruce Owens leads Wheaton College's Semester in Bhutan at Royal Thimpu College
March 22, 2013Professor Bruce Owens is leading 11 students in a semester of study in Bhutan in the Spring 2013. This is the fourth group of Wheaton College students that will spend a term at Royal Thimphu College. Anthropology majors Benjamin Kragen '14 and Ariel Eaton '14 will be joining the Thimpu community and interning while they [...]
For more information, contact Donna O. Kerner, chair.
Updates from Wheaton Anthro Alums in Graduate School
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Alumni Update: Ashley Smith ‘08 Tracking a PhD
April 25, 2011TRACKING A PHD Ashley Smith 2008 is studying toward her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Cornell University. After completing her BA in Anthropology at Wheaton, Ashley spent a year in Quebec, Canada on a Fulbright conducing research on Abenaki identity in preparation for her doctoral fieldwork. She talked to Donna Kerner at the American Anthropological Association [...] -
A Passion for International Health Care
January 10, 2011A Passion for International Health Care Sarah Hudson (2006) discovered her passion for work in the field of international health during her undergraduate career as a dual major in Anthropology and French at Wheaton. During her junior year abroad (and the summer thereafter, funded by a Davis grant for overseas research) Sarah studied indigenous social [...] -
Alumni Update: Kira Munk Wells '08
October 27, 2010Kira Munk Wells '08 enrolled in the MA program in Migration and Refugee studies at the American University in Cairo in the Fall of 2010. Kira is now grateful to have had the chance to do an independent research project as a senior. In her new program, she writes: "The courses allow for quite a [...] -
Ashley Smith '08 conducted research on the Abenaki in Canada on a Fulbright Scholarship.
April 1, 2010After completing her Fulbright Scholarship, Ashley was accepted into the Ph.D. program in Anthropology and Native American Studies Cornell University.
