Graduate Education

Archaeology is affiliated with the degree-granting Department of Anthropology, which offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the following areas: archaeology; biological anthropology; cultural anthropology; linguistic anthropology and medical anthropology. Interested students are encouraged to contact faculty members with complementary research interests. Associate curators, who are also faculty members in the Department of Anthropology, advise students, include them in research expeditions and serve on their M.A. and Ph.D. committees. About 50 students are in residence at the Biodiversity Institute, which includes Archaeology.

Contact information:

Don Stull, Graduate Coordinator
email: stull@ku.edu
phone: 785.864.2641

 

Archaeology at a Glance

(past cultures)
Established: 1895
Collection Strengths: 1.5 million artifacts
Research Strengths:
Material culture studies of prehistoric and early historic peoples of the Great Plains, lithic and ceramic analysis, geoarchaeology and paleoethnobotany.
Curator(s):
Mary Adair 785.864.2675