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The PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites applications for Fall 2026. We are seeking candidates with a strong interest in Linguistic Anthropology. Successful applicants typically receive a five-year funding
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Program Highlights</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Vibrant Scholarly Community:</span> Our program is a dynamic hub for linguistic anthropology, with a robust faculty, extensive mentorship, and a critical mass of scholarly engagement.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Student-Led Groups:</span> We have monthly Graduate Linguistic Anthropology Meetings (GLAM) and sociolinguistics lunches that foster a strong cohort and opportunities for collaboration.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Cross-Subfield Training:</span> We train students to integrate linguistic anthropological perspectives with archaeology, biological anthropology, and in particular cultural anthropology.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Location:</span> Our campus is in the heart of New York City, offering unparalleled academic and cultural resources.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Our Approach to Linguistic Anthropology</span></div>
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Our ethnographic and historically informed approach examines language in social life, focusing on power and inequality. We explore how language entangles with social categories (race, class, gender), other meaning-making systems (food, money, landscapes), and
emergent technologies.</div>
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Recent Ph.D. students have conducted research on postcolonial poetics in Algeria, racialization and bilingual education in Texas, childhood language socialization in American Samoa, and the intersection of cryptocurrency and the adult industry in the U.S. Our
graduates find employment both within and beyond academia.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Linguistic Anthropology Faculty</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Jillian Cavanaugh:</span> Language ideology, language shift, gender, materiality, heritage food production; Italy, Europe</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Miki Makihara:</span> Language revitalization and activism, political economy of language, indigeneity and democracy; Rapa Nui, the Pacific, Chile, Latin America</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Sarah Muir:</span> Semiotic ideologies and moral economies, narrative genres, investment and finance, social inequality; Argentina, Latin America</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Angela Reyes:</span> Race, register, semiotics, discourse; US, Philippines</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Diane Riskedahl:</span> Language and politics, semiotic landscapes, protest rhetoric, </div>
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solidarity activism, migration and displacement; Lebanon, the Middle East</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Juan L. Rodríguez:</span> Discourse-centered approaches, state formation, diasporic identities, populism; Venezuela, Chile, Latin America</div>
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We encourage applicants to review the diverse interests of our faculty in other subfields for potential cross-disciplinary work:<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf9910d31-5af2-0379-04f9-3222c2f4032e" href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/faculty">
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Learn More & Apply</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Virtual Open House:</span> Friday, October 17, 2025, 2:30 – 3:30 PM (Eastern Time).
<span style="font-weight: 700;">Register Here:</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3be40115-2003-ca62-6488-b10e248e8a83" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qI_T6fVjTcqx1IxcxwScrw">
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Application Deadline:</span> December 1, 2025</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Online Application:</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAd8ca01ef-a6e3-5179-9ee4-9d0088ae2919" href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/admissions-aid/how-apply">
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropology Admissions Info:</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA7d443581-ea6c-427c-6f1b-7090cc634889" href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/admissions-and-aid">
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">University Fellowship Info</span>: <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAddb33261-b536-c556-7500-1437ee9d230f" href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships-and-financial-aid"></a></u></span><span style="font-weight: 700;">Contact:</span> Miki
Makihara, Linguistic Anthropology Subfield Coordinator (miki.makihara@QC.CUNY.EDU)</div>
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Anthropology Department, Queens College, CUNY</div>
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Doctoral Faculty</div>
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Ph.D. Programs in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, CUNY Graduate Center</div>
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