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Page 1: University of Toronto Canada’s largest university is comprised of the St. George campus downtown Toronto, and the beautiful, green campuses of Mississauga

University of Toronto

ANTHROPOLOGYGraduate Studies

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University of Toronto • Canada’s largest university is comprised of the

St. George campus downtown Toronto, and the beautiful, green campuses of Mississauga and Scarborough

• Our total population is about 83,000 students and 11,500 faculty members

• There are almost 16,000 graduate students. One in eight of these are international.

• Ranked #1 in Canada and #20 in the world according to the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings

• 95% of graduate students are at St. George campus

• UofT ranks #2 in the world in total output of scholarly publications after Harvard

What this all means for you:

• Diversity• University• Toronto

• Resources• Library

• Most holdings• Comprehensive e-resources• Amazing archives

• Labs• In the department• Around campus (GIS, Geology,

• People• Extraordinary faculty• Extraordinary students

• Money• Many sources of financial support• Tri-council• University• Department

• Reputation

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• Officially established at the University of Toronto in 1936. Since that time, more than 330 Ph.D. degrees and 600 Masters degrees have been conferred in the Department.

• Currently we have over 170 graduate students registered in graduate programs

Department of Anthropology

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Department of Anthropology

• Over half of all our Ph.D. graduates, are employed in tenure-stream or tenured positions in universities in Canada, United States, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Great Britain, Japan,  Philippines, Italy, Malaysia, and Australia. About a quarter of our Ph.D. graduates are employed in museums, government agencies, or research and consulting groups in Canada and abroad.

• For virtual tour of the department see: http://goo.gl/mFrfbx

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Graduate ProgramsMaster of Arts and Master of Science

• The Department offers a Master of Arts degree program in the five sub-fields of Anthropology and a Master of Science degree program, normally in archaeology, medical anthropology, and evolutionary anthropology.

• M.A. is usually 12 months and M.Sc. is usually 24 months of full-time study

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Graduate Programs

Doctor of Philosophy

• Usually four to five years• Program requirements: at least six half course

credits, language requirement and thesis proposal defense which are typically completed in one to two years.

• PhD research starts upon enrolment in the program and culminates in the submission of a thesis and final oral examination

• Direct entry to Ph.D. program from undergraduate degree is offered to excellent students.

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Financial Support

All graduate students admitted to a graduate program and in good academic standing are supported through a combination of research assistantships, teaching assistantships, University of Toronto Fellowships in combination with external awards.

• Master’s students are assured the minimum funding for one year

• PhD students are assured of funding for four years

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Financial Support

Minimum funding: $15,000 plus tuition (including incidental fees and health insurance if applicable).

Additional top ups provided for external award winners (eg. CIHR, NSERC, OGS, SSHRC).

Students pay their own fees from the funding that they receive from the department and or external awards.

Follow the money? Follow the vision? Not always the same thing!

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Admissions

Deadlines:

December 7, 2015 - Ph.D. program: complete application and supporting documents

January 18, 2016 - Master’s programs: complete application and supporting documents

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Admission requirementsAdmission to a Master’s Program

• an appropriate Bachelor's degree, with a final year average of at least B+ or its equivalent from a recognized university.

• students must have at least five full-year Anthropology courses (or equivalent) with a minimum average of B+

• the department also welcomes applications from students with competence in related fields.

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Basic admission requirements

Admission to the Doctoral Program• a Master's degree in anthropology (or a cognate

subject) • grades averaging the equivalent of a University of

Toronto A- or better in their last full year of study.

Direct Admission to the Doctoral Program• a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a

concentration in anthropology• A 3.85 GPA

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Collaborative Programs

The Department of Anthropology offers graduate studies in collaboration with the programs listed below. For collaborative programs, students must first be admitted to a graduate program in the Department. Many Collaborative Program requirements fulfill Anthropology degree requirements, e.g., as elective courses. Courses in a Collaborative Program may, however, exceed minimum degree requirements in Anthropology and there may be scheduling conflicts regarding required courses.

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Collaborative Programs Aboriginal HealthAddiction StudiesAging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life CourseAsia-Pacific StudiesDiaspora and Transnational StudiesDynamics of Global ChangeEnvironmental StudiesEthnic and Pluralism StudiesGlobal HealthJewish StudiesSexual Diversity StudiesSouth Asian StudiesWomen's HealthWomen & Gender Studies

Further details available at: http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/graduate/copy_of_collaborative-programs

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Topics of current graduate students (grant applications this year)Indigenous women and self-harm

Global health as professional practiceIndigenous urbanness

Vulnerability assessment of coastal Inuvialult sitesContested public spaces and female piety in Israel/Palestine

Aid paradox: Development and emergent forms of stigmaSovereignty, Survival and the politics of everyday struggle

Reclaiming, Reformulating, and Reconstituting the Material Culture of the MétisThe effects of habitat fragmentation on dispersal behaviour and subsequent gene flow in the Endangered Mexican black howler monkey

The Ideologies of Cotton: Economic Change and Political Mobilization in Pakistan's Cotton Belt A Study of Bone Following "Cardio-Pulmonary Death" as a Means of Distinguishing Perimortem Trauma & Postmortem Damage

People, environment and early Iroquoian social organizationFree expressions and sociocultural relations in Canada

A different interpretation of post-traumatic stress disorder based on the lived experience of Canadian soldiers and veteransAn ethnographic inquiry into labour and mobility in Dar es Salaam

The origin of agriculture in Shangshan culture, ChinaYoung indigenous women and cultural resurgence in Canada and New Zealand

Governmentality, family and civil society in Japan’s Ikumen movementChange and continuity of women’s roles in arctic skin clothing production

Framing the sex crisis in IranPrecarious lives and intentional communities in Toronto

A spatial and archeological analysis of Buddhist terrace structures at Angkor Thom, CambodiaImmortalization and repair of damaged DNA

Being Queer, becoming Old: an ethnographic exploration of possibilitiesDeveloping a 3D forensic technique of determining the sex and ancestry of unidentified human remains

The infrastructure of Coca in the ancient AndesSocial dominance and the alpha woman

Understanding the Evolutionary Importance of Early Eurasian Catarrhine PrimatesGrowth and development of a late Miocene ape using Synchrotron radiation histology