MA Anthropology

Embark on a once-in-a-lifetime experience and adventure alongside world-class researchers. In Anthropology at Trent, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake fascinating fieldwork around the world, and advance our understanding of the human past and present.  

Digging deep into the area of study that interests you as either a full- or part-time M.A. student, you will prepare yourself for a future in higher education, field and lab research, museums, cultural-heritage tourism, or heritage management.  

At Trent, your experience will be based on the Anthropology graduate program’s more than 40-year track record of educational excellence, and inspired by real-life learning. Three full-year courses and the research required for the completion of a thesis will see you explore the complexities of human biology and culture. Consider topics of societal importance through archaeological, biological, ethnographic, or linguistic research. Faculty members and students before you have undertaken fieldwork across Canada, in the U.S. southwest, in Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, South and Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea. Their investigations have focused on mortuary practices, forensics, settlement patterns, civilization collapse, art, religion, and much more.

• Benefit from Trent’s top-notch facilities and an emphasis on individual instruction.
• Study at the intersection of physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
• See the world and while doing original research on a topic that you love.
• Gain the skills employers of today want – adaptability, resourcefulness, and versatility.