The master's program in anthropology provides graduate students with a broad foundation in anthropology while allowing individuals to specialize in a particular area of anthropology.  The research areas that faculty members specialize in and guide graduate student research in are listed below.  Please see the "Faculty Research Areas" web page on this site for more information regarding faculty research areas and links to faculty research web pages.

Archaeology
Old World
  Late Neolithic through Iron Age Ireland
New World
  North America
    Midwest prehistoric archaeology
    Southeast prehistoric archaeology
    Historical archaeology, eastern North America
Cultural Resource Management
Zooarchaeology
Biological Anthropology
Bioarchaeology
Human variation
Cultural Anthropology
North America
  Native American Studies
    Ethnohistory, Northwest
    Southwest
 Contemporary American culture, adolescents
Oceania, New Guinea
Romania
Technology and Culture

While department graduates often go on to doctoral study that can lead to careers in teaching and academic research, many former students enter careers in archaeological resources management, museum work, or other types of applied anthropology using the practices and theory of anthropology to address real-world human problems.

• Museum curators
• Project archaeologists for consulting firms
• District archaeologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
• Staff archaeologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources
• Medical researchers
  
• Master of Arts Requirements 
• Graduate Minor in Anthropology