2006 - 2007 Guide to Graduate Programs
in Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Compiled by Julie Kloss and Alicia Valentino
Selecting a graduate school is an important step toward becoming a professional archaeologist. This is also a difficult step, and students who wish to pursue graduate studies in historical and underwater archaeology are at a particular disadvantage because there are few graduate programs in these areas. Faculty find it difficult to advise students inquiring about graduate opportunities, particularly if the student's interests are in areas quite different from their own. Students should realize that even though historical archaeology is a growing field, there are few departments with established programs devoted to its study. To more accurately portray this situation, this guide has been renamed to eliminate use of the term "program."
This guide is designed to help students in their search for graduate training in historical and underwater archaeology. Students are urged to use the information provided as a starting point. Once they have identified institutions that appear to meet their needs, students should contact specific faculty members whose research most closely matches their own interests, inquiring about current and future research and educational opportunities. Contacting faculty directly is the single most important step students can take as they develop plans for graduate studies. Students should also discuss their choices with faculty advisors, instructors, and students who are currently in graduate school.
Students should find a program where they can obtain the skills necessary to "do" historical archaeology, including training in field and laboratory methods as well as how to conduct research successfully. Learning to write and talk about archaeology is an integral part of a student's education, as is obtaining a solid theoretical foundation. Languages are also often an important part of a student's training. Each student interested in pursuing historical archaeology as a career should begin obtaining these skills as an undergraduate and then continue to refine them throughout his or her training.
The "guide" is updated yearly and includes listings for institutions from around the world. It is also posted on the SHA Web site http://www.sha.org. A distinction continues to be made in Item 3 between faculty, who serve on committees and are available for advising students in historical, underwater, medieval, and post-medieval archaeology, and those who teach and conduct research in related areas. This year, 59 institutions are listed in the guide. Corrections or updates were provided for all but 16 of the other entries listed in last year's version of the guide. To submit a new entry or to make a correction or update in either the printed or Web versions of the guide, please contact:
Alicia Valentino, Summit Envirosolutions, Inc.,
813 N. Plaza Street,
Carson City, NV 89701,
phone: 775-671-7428,
email: abvalentino@gmail.com.
Additional or new information about an institution will be posted throughout the coming year on the Web version of the guide within a reasonable time after Valentino receives it.
Graduate Guide Menu
Australia
- Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- University of Western Australia, Australia
Europe
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- University of Southhampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- University College London, London, United Kingdom
- University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
- University of York, York, United Kingdom
Near East
North America
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
- Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
- East Carolina University (Anthropology), Greenville, North Carolina, USA
- East Carolina University (Maritime History), Greenville, North Carolina, USA
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Florida State University, Talahassee, Florida, USA
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Illinois State University , Normal, Illinois, USA
- Université Laval, Laval, Québec, Canada
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
- University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA
- City University of New York, New York, New York, USA
- State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA