The Specialization in Globalization, Culture and Power will attract students interested in cultural change, cross-cultural understanding, international development, human rights, and social justice. This program will provide students with diverse opportunities for deep engagement with questions of global change. Anthropology has been at the forefront of the study of globalizing processes –from the analysis of the rise of global institutions, the critique of development practices, and the ongoing documentation of cultural change as economies and populations move and transform. Our concentration, Globalization, Culture, and Power, reflects this tradition. It aims to give students substantial exposure to the main complementary aspects of globalization as we know it today, large transnational movements and institutions, on the one hand, and particular cultures, contexts and struggles on the other. The Specialization in Globalization, Culture and Power focuses on understanding globalizing processes as deeply historical and spatially situated. Students will learn to use the conceptual and methodological tools of anthropology to tackle contemporary issues including cultural survival, shifting racialized, gendered, sexualized, religious, ethnic, and national identities and cultural meanings. The program will allow students to understand the intersection of globalization with growing economic inequality, ecological vulnerabilities, colonial legacies, health practices and institutions, and new visions of human rights with reference to a vast array of ethnographic research.