我们的部门是跨学科，比较性和批判性的。我们的研究生课程规模小，学院式且有选择性。我们为我们为研究生提供的教职支持而感到自豪。我们的许多博士生成功地从主要的资助机构获得了奖学金，并获得了博士后奖学金，学术界的就业，研究，政策和非营利部门。
Our department is interdisciplinary, comparative, and critically engaged. Our graduate programs are small, collegial and selective. We pride ourselves on the faculty support we offer our graduate students. Many of our doctoral students successfully secure scholarships from major granting agencies, and go on to post-doctoral fellowships, employment in academia, research, policy, and the non-profit sectors.<br><br>Our graduate students are active and engaged scholars, who disseminate their research in a variety of ways. For example, between 2009 and 2012, Sociology and Social Anthropology (SoSA) graduate students presented a total of 38 papers at conferences and workshops.<br><br>The doctoral program is designed to be completed in four years, although many students in our disciplines find that their fieldwork and writing require them to take a fifth or even sixth year to complete the degree.