Career Pathways

Career Pathways

The Tableau visualization below shows the career fields and functions of the PhDs who graduated from our program between 2009 and 2023. The original data were provided by Academic Analytics and updated by our team. The data is also presented below in accessible list form. 

Level 1 – Graduates from our PhD program

  • PhD program (98)

Level 2 – Sector 

  • Academia (74)
  • Industry (24)

Level 3 – Types of organizations

  • Community college (4)
  • Liberal arts college (4)
  • Master’s university (15)
  • Doctoral university (51)
  • Government (11)
  • Zoo (3)
  • Non-profit (3)
  • Museum (1)
  • For-profit (6) 

Level 4 – Types of positions

  • Tenure-track faculty (27)
  • Instructor (21)
  • Post-doc (4)
  • Manager (5)
  • Director (15)
  • Coordinator (8)
  • Researcher (8)
  • Forensic anthropologist (7)
  • Archaeologist (2)
  • Entrepreneur (1)

Alumni Profiles

Many of our graduate alumni are pursuing job in academia as professors, lecturers, researchers, and administrators. Other alumni are working in non-profits, museums, zoos, cultural resource management, and forensics. 

You can learn more about the different careers of our alumni and how they are using their anthropological training in different fields by reading our alumni profiles.