We are pleased to announce the 3rd "Student Saturday" on November 19, 2011 at the 110th AAA Annual Meeting in Montréal!  We will again hold a Graduate School Fair and have special programs for students coming to Montréal.

Student Saturday was developed to encourage anthropology students to attend the AAA annual meetings and provide programming of particular interest to them.  All anthropology students may attend Student Saturday at the discounted rate of only $50 for one-day admission.  Registration includes access to all regular sessions and special events on Saturday.  Special Programming will include:

• 3rd Annual Graduate School Fair from 10am-2pm in the Main Exhibit Hall
• A workshop on careers in anthropology conducted by Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins (University of Oklahoma).  Ellis and Watkins recently released The Anthropology Graduate's Guide: From Student to Career (Left Coast Press).  This session will be on November 19 from 8:00-9:45am 
• Trivia games (with prizes!) specifically designed to encourage participation in sessions and traffic at the graduate school fair
• Special sessions/events from the National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)

To register for Student Saturday, please visit the online registration page. A tutorial on how to register can be found here. Online pre-registration is available until October 15th. Note: Students who are registered for meeting sessions during the week are eligible to particpate in sessions and events on Saturday. Please click here to access the preliminary program of sessions taking place at the Annual Meeting.

Graduate School Fair

The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) and the Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology (CMIA) will be providing instant mentoring at their booths in the Graduate School Fair. 

This year's participants include:

• Ball State University
• Brandeis University
  The Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University offers masters and doctoral degrees in anthropology as well as a joint masters degree in anthropology and women's and gender studies. Our courses cover the discipline's four major subfields: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, physical anthropology, and the archaeology of complex societies. We have an active and dynamic graduate program. Our students regularly present papers at national and international conferences; we also host student conferences in archaeology and sociocultural anthropology. Graduates from our master’s program have a strong rate of success in acceptance to doctoral programs, as well as in obtaining professional opportunities in diverse anthropologically-informed fields such as development, policy, teaching, administration, and research. Our doctoral students have recently earned grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, National Geographic, NSF, and SSRC. Our graduate program provides intensive training for independent research, with particular emphasis on comparative studies, theoretical grounding and ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork. Departmental strengths include the study of complex societies, comparative methods, economic anthropology and development, gender studies, semiotic systems, global and transnational processes, linguistic anthropology, the emerging cultures of cyberspace, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and religion and ritual. Please see our website for more information: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro/grad/index.html  
• East Carolina University
  The MA program in anthropology at East Carolina University is designed to provide students with competency in the three subfields of biological, archaeology and cultural anthropology. In addition, students have the opportunity to specialize in their areas of interest The biological anthropology focuses on bioarchaeology, skeletal morphology, forensic anthropology, and human adaptation and variation. The archaeology program focuses prehistoric North American archaeology, Middle Eastern archaeology, historic archaeology and cultural resource management. The cultural anthropology program focuses on the promotion of qualitative and quantitative research methods in the areas of applied medical anthropology with an emphasis on health disparities and global and regional studies with an emphasis on migration and the immigrant experience and global classroom education. 
• Eastern New Mexico University
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  The MA in Applied Archaeology prepares students to meet state and federal professional requirements, enabling them to work nationwide as applied or professional archaeologists. This is the only degree of its kind offered in Pennsylvania. This program is designed to meet a need for increased training of professional archaeologists employed in the fields of historic preservation, cultural resource management, and heritage planning and tourism. It also prepares students to meet the US Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for professional archaeologists upon graduation. Students are trained in current, relevant subjects for professional archaeologists including preservation law, ethics, business, and archaeology; develop writing skills needed to prepare technical reports and publications for the general public; and receive specialized training in technical skills including human osteology, faunal analysis, and geophysical surveys, which are critical to professionals in this field. www.iup.edu/anthropology.
• Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis
  The IUPUI Anthropology Department offers a 2-year a Master’s of Arts degree in Applied Anthropology. The degree takes advantage of our departmental strengths in Public Archaeology, Urban Anthropology and Social Policy, International Development, Globalization, Medical Anthropology and Museum Studies. We do not have specific tracks but students with particular interests may follow a targeted curriculum focusing on a particular aspect of the discipline. This integration of three of the four sub-fields in Anthropology (Archaeology, Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology) makes this program distinctive among graduate programs in Applied Anthropology. Another notable feature is our emphasis in civic engagement in student and faculty research. This program accords well with current trends in the discipline, which have called for what many term an “Engaged” or “Public” Anthropology; that is, an anthropology which responds actively to both domestic and international policy initiatives and debates. For more information about the program, see our Web page at: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/anthropology/ For questions, please contact Graduate Program Director Susan B. Hyatt at: suhyatt@iupui.edu  
• Purdue University
  Purdue’s Department of Anthropology offers MS and PhD degrees. With a diversified faculty, the Purdue graduate program offers training in all four subfields of anthropology. Faculty specializations include the anthropology of gender, kinship, religion, semiotics, environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, North and South America, the Nile Valley and Central Asia, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, medical anthropology, human health and aging, women's health, reproductive ecology and primate ecology and conservation. The courses taken during the first year develop a four-field foundation for subsequent specialized coursework and research. Our program emphasizes personalized intensive mentoring and interaction with graduate student peers.
• Rutgers University 
  The Rutgers graduate program in Anthropology contains two tracks: the program in EA (Evolutionary Anthropology) and CITE (Critical Interventions in Theory and Ethnography), our cultural anthropology program. The Graduate Program in Evolutionary Anthropology has strengths in paleoanthropology: an integration of primatology, physical anthropology, and archaeology for the comprehensive study of human evolution. It also has a unique program in Evolution, Behavior, and Culture, a graduate concentration designed to provide students with an understanding of up-to-date theory and methods in the behavioral ecology of humans and nonhuman primates. The CITE program offers training in the major areas of cultural/linguistic anthropology, including economic, environmental, feminist, historical, legal, medical, political, postcolonial, psychological, symbolic, and urban anthropology. CITE faculty are committed to an engaged anthropology in their teaching and research. Both the EA and CITE anthropology programs were separately rated as one of the top ten graduate programs in anthropology in the nation by Academic Analytics in 2007.  
• University of Alberta
  The University of Alberta is home to one of the most highly regarded Anthropology graduate programs in Canada, and hosts the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, the Institute for Prairie Archaeology, and the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology. We aim to locate tuition funding for all entering anthropology graduate students. Our students are eligible for recruitment scholarships, teaching assistantships, Killam Trust Dissertation Fellowships, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarships, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, research and conference travel grants, and grants-in-aid for Northern Scientific Training and for Circumpolar/Boreal Research. For applications for our thesis-based MA and PhD programs, please go to: http://www.gradstudies.ualberta.ca/prospective/ to complete the online portion of the application by January 5, 2012. We are committed to supporting our graduate students through matching to appropriate supervisors, prior to acceptance into the program. To identify prospective supervisors who share your research interests or approach, please visit: http://www.anthropology.ualberta.ca/People/Academic%20Faculty.aspx
• University of Arizona
• University of Kansas
  The Department of Anthropology at The University of Kansas maintains a commitment to a holistic and integrative approach to studying human beings. In insisting that its students acquire a solid grounding in the evolution and preservation of human biological and cultural diversity, it provides them with the broad training required to understand human interactions and human affairs in a world where long-standing boundary markers between countries, cultures, and races have been negated, blurred, or redefined. Faculty expertise covers all the fields of anthropology with areas of geographic focus including Asia, Europe, Latin America, Native North America, the Pacific, Africa, and the contemporary United States.
• University of Maine
  Our new PhD Program centers on understanding human society and culture in cross-cultural perspective and their pivotal role in implementing successful environmental policy. The program engages students in a multi-disciplinary framework bridging environmental sciences and policy while focusing on the sociocultural impacts of, and responses to, local and global environmental change. Possible areas of environmental policy and research include: • Global Climate Change • Energy Resources • Marine Resources • Eco-tourism • Forestry Resources • Land-Use • Water Management • Pollution Control Program
  Contact: Professor Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 
5773 South Stevens Hall, Orono, Maine 04469-5773, constanza@umit.maine.edu
  Program Website: http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/PhD.html
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• University of Minnesota
• University of North Texas
  The Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas offers two master’s programs in applied anthropology - an on-campus program and an online program. The online program is the first and only of its kind in the US. The on-campus program also offers a dual degree with a master’s of public health. Our specialty areas include medical anthropology, migration and border studies, anthropology of education, environmental anthropology, and business, technology and design anthropology. Please check out our website at http://anthropology.unt.edu.
• University of Texas at San Antonio
  The University of Texas at San Antonio's Ph.D. program in Ecological Anthropology offers a four-field approach to basic and applied research. Students will develop empirical understandings of how humans culturally construct and organize past and present environments; how power relations are embedded in these activities; and the impact socio-physical environments have upon human and non-human primates. Graduate course offerings view ecological anthropology through multiple lenses: political economy, environmental politics, indigenous epistemologies, landscape production, agrarian economy, social, behavioral and evolutionary ecology, medical anthropology, and primate conservation. Many incoming students are offered some form of financial assistance. During the admission review process, all Ph.D. applicants are simultaneously considered for teaching assistantships and scholarship funding. Evaluation criteria include undergraduate and graduate GPAs, GRE scores, applicant statements, supporting letters, and writing samples. Other funding sources include research assistantships, departmental small grants, and teaching opportunities.
• University of Victoria
  Anthropology at the University of Victoria engages the discipline's traditional breadth of perspectives and subjects, but does so with a commitment to forging meaningful connections between the traditional subfields of Biological, Cultural, and Archaeological Anthropology through the department’s integrative themes: Inequality, Culture, Health; Evolution and Ecology; Indigenous Peoples; and Visual Anthropology and Materiality. These themes inform our teaching and research, which is often practiced within community-based projects. Through these, our MA and PhD students find innovative ways to approach questions of social justice, health, inequality, colonialism, the environment, technology, media and art in geographic contexts spanning the globe and case studies from the last two million years. Situated in British Columbia’s capitol on Vancouver Island, the department benefits from its proximity to the Royal BC Museum, provincial archives and its laboratory facilities that include Visual Media and Ethnographic Mapping Labs, an Archaeological and Biological Research Labs--the latter equipped with 3D imaging equipment--and a comparative skeletal collection that includes over 2500 fish, bird and mammal specimens. For more information on our department and programs, see http://anthropology.uvic.ca/  
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Anthropology offers programs of graduate study designed to provide a broad background in all significant facets of the discipline—biological as well as cultural, analytic as well as descriptive—while still encouraging specialization. It provides training both for students interested in an academic career in anthropology and for those concerned with practical issues approached from the integrative perspective of anthropology. The department, in cooperation with the Milwaukee Public Museum, also offers a program leading to a Certificate in Museum Studies. The Milwaukee Public Museum, the fourth largest natural history museum in the country, is the site for methods courses that provide the student practical experience in museum work and for courses in the history and theory of museum exhibits. Each student's program of studies includes training in anthropological theory and methods, issues and problems in cultural anthropology, archaeology, anthropological linguistics and physical anthropology, as well as topics that focus on the student's area of particular interest.  
• Wayne State University
• Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology (CMIA) 
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
• National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)

Previous GSF participants include:

• Arizona State University
• Brandeis University
• Georgia State University
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Mississippi State University
• Purdue University
• Social Science Research Council
• University of Alberta
• University of Arizona 
• University of Connecticut
• University of Georgia
• University of Hawai'i, Manoa
• University of Kansas
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• University of North Texas 
• University of Texas, San Antonio
• University of Southern California
• University of Victoria
• University of West Florida
• Wayne State University
• Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology (CMIA)
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)

The Graduate School Fair (GSF) is a great opportunity for students to learn about different graduate programs and network with faculty and staff.  Space at the GSF is limited and available ONLY to Department Services Program members (at no additional cost).  If you are a current member of the DSP, you may sign-up for the Graduate School Fair by sending an email to Angel Jackson-White at ajacksonwhite@aaanet.org or reach her by phone at (703) 528-1902 ext 1181.  If you would like to join our Department Services Program and begin reaping the benefits of membership such as a free display at the Graduate School Fair, entry into the Department Chairs Breakfast, complimentary copy of the AAA AnthroGuide, a department subscription to AnthroNews, as well as DEEP discounts on job ads in the AN and AAA online AND a complimentary booth at the Career Center (onsite job placement service), please visit: www.aaanet.org/membership/dsp.cfm.