Anthropology PhD programs for multi-species ethnography/human-animal relationships?

Graduate School
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Specifically human perceptions of and interactions with livestock and companion animals. I’m interested in how these categories are defined, constructed, and also what makes certain animals edible or non-edible and what makes them suitable for companionship. My geographical area of interest, if I needed one, would be Latin America.

So far I am interested in people from:
Columbia
UVA
Toronto
Washington
The New School
UCSB
McGill
Santa Cruz
UCD
British Columbia
Urbana Champaign
Yale
Cornell

However, these schools have at the most two people who do cultural animal work in anthropology, so I don’t know of any departments that I would fit.

I’m kind of frustrated because the vast majority of people I’ve read are from the UK, and I don’t think that it would be feasible to leave the US, let alone go to Canada. I’ve used AnthroSource to search for faculty, but it seems like my interests just aren’t that popular.
I will apply in the fall…gah Idk if I can do this.

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Two people is enough; if your field is small/a niche field, you may be unable to find more than one or two people in most departments doing that kind of work. That’s okay; you just need to apply to a wider range of departments and choose carefully when you choose an advisor.

Also, I think you mean “…I’ve read are from the UK, and I don’t think that it would be feasible to leave the US, unless I go to Canada.” “Let alone” is a construction that means you are even less likely to do the thing that the first clause implies you are unlikely to do.

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^Maybe for prescriptivists…

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…well, no, that’s just how the phrase is used in the English language. The only reason I even mentioned it is because I was initially quite confused by that part of your post and it took me a while to figure out what you meant.