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The PhD in Anthropology is the result of a partnership between Iscte and NOVA FCSH, two of the most prestigious institutions in the field of social sciences and humanities in Portugal.
Drawing on the academic, scientific, and human resources of both universities, the programme offers advanced training in anthropology with strong national and international recognition.
Doctoral students benefit from a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative academic environment, with privileged access to leading research centres, particularly CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia.
Welcoming research projects across diverse areas of anthropology — including political, urban, and medical anthropology, postcolonial studies, heritage, migration, and environmental issues — the programme encourages the development of original and socially relevant research.
Designed for candidates with a solid academic background and a strong motivation to contribute to the advancement of anthropological knowledge, the PhD aims to train highly qualified researchers and professionals, prepared to engage in a wide range of academic, institutional, and social contexts.
Directors:
Miguel Vale de Almeida (Iscte), Susana Trovão (NOVA FCSH)
Director(s) message
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities", said Alfred Kroeber. Learning Anthropology means making the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Doctoral training at ISCTE aims at preparing scientists who are capable of understanding, of interpreting, and of explaining to the wider society how human diversity is articulated in the contemporary world.
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time". (T. S. Eliot)
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