人类学哲学博士

弗吉尼亚大学的人类学博士学位课程旨在引导学生从共同的，广泛的人类学理论基础出发，进入他们自己量身定制的原创学术研究和写作议程。贯穿整个课程的重点是准备通过实地研究，分析和写作为知识做出宝贵的贡献。
The PhD program in Anthropology at the University of Virginia is designed to lead students from a common and broad acquaintance with fundamental issues of anthropological theory to their own individually tailored agenda of original scholarly research and writing. The accent throughout is on preparation to make a valuable contribution to knowledge through field research, analysis, and writing.<br>Our PhD program encourages an intense engagement with the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic literature of the student's chosen sub-discipline as well as a broad familiarity with, and conversation across, the three sub-disciplines represented in the Department. That said, the program is also streamlined and flexibly shaped to the particular needs and goals of each student.<br><br>All incoming students for the PhD are supported with a five-year funding package as well as additional grants for foreign language study, conference travel, and preparatory research during summers. The first year of our PhD program is devoted primarily to achieving a solid grounding in social theory through a set of common and elective courses emphasizing critical engagement with the history of the discipline and contemporary theory. In the second year, students focus more intensively on developing mastery of the existing bodies of scholarship on their research topics and areas. Working closely with faculty, they prepare two essays that critically review the 'state of the field in two areas of scholarly literature relevant to their planned dissertation research. During the summers following this first and second years of coursework, most PhD students visit their chosen field areas to assess the feasibility of research on their planned topics, to establish preliminary contacts, and to study local languages. In the third year of study, PhD students complete any remaining coursework and write their dissertation research proposal and grant applications. Students who have passed their proposal and received funding carry out field research for one year. After returning from their field research, they write up their dissertation in consultation with the faculty members on their dissertation committee.