With a full-time faculty of four supplemented by linguists in other departments, the University of Virginia anthropology department offers a doctorate in linguistic anthropology. Students have conducted original field research in the U.S., Central and South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Indonesia and New Guinea. The twice-yearly Linguistic Anthropology Seminar series presents work by faculty, students and visiting scholars in an informal setting. Departmental resources include extensive archives of past research and recording equipment for field work.
Linguistic anthropology forms a subdiscipline of the department of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Four full-time faculty teach in concert with faculty in other subdisciplines and departments, providing an interdisciplinary graduate education, drawing on the rich language resources of the region as well as studies of language around the world. Graduate students at both master's and doctoral levels must complete field work and original scholarship. A vast library and extensive laboratory and technological support facilitate research.
Linguistic anthropology forms one of the subdisciplines on which master's and doctoral students may focus while pursuing graduate study in anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The program invokes faculty in multiple departments under the direction of a guiding linguist/anthropologist with expertise in employing digital media to enrich and document linguistic fieldwork. UNLV offers both a master's and a doctorate, the latter program open both to students with and without a master's degree.
With five faculty members in linguistic anthropology, the University of Michigan department of anthropology offers a subfield in the discipline, emphasizing formal linguistics and integrating social theory and analysis. Its master's and doctoral programs incorporate four subfields (anthropological archeology; physical, sociocultural and linguistic anthropology), while its linguistics coursework emphasizes cross-cultural literatures, theoretical and field research methods. The department also participates in joint programs, including culture and cognition.