Summer 2023 Workshop - Graduate School in Anthropology: Norms and Practices
The Society for Anthropological Sciences will be offering a two-hour online Zoom workshop on norms about finding and applying to graduate schools in anthropology:
Graduate School in Anthropology: Norms and Practices
Moderator: Dr. Stephen Chrisomalis
Saturday, June 3, 2023
1:00 – 3:00pm (US Eastern)
All students interested in learning more about graduate school processes are welcome. (Faculty members, feel free to share with interested students!)
Preregister for the workshop at:
https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/
(You’ll put in your name and email, and this will give you a unique, secure access link for the Zoom meeting)
The workshop will cover various norms and practices to help undergraduates and MA students who are looking for graduate schools, with a focus on (but not limited to) North American anthropology graduate programs. Topics include:
- how to find graduate schools that might be right for you
- how to manage the norms and ‘hidden curriculum’ of the process
- how and when to communicate to faculty members
- how to write an exceptionally strong statement of purpose
- how to think about funding your studies
- how admissions committees think about GPAs and GREs