Master’s Opportunities in Anthropology in United States

Graduate opportunities are available in the Lab of Conservation Ecology at Northern Arizona University for students interested in applied plant ecology , restoration ecology , rangeland management , biodiversity , and ecological resilience . Drs. Clare Aslan and Sara Souther are recruiting three graduate students to start in Fall 2027 . The openings include one MS or PhD project on culturally informed restoration of Madrean oak woodlands and two MS projects focused on sustainable rangeland manag...

Dr. Holly Nesbitt is recruiting MS and PhD students for research on environmental governance at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, within the Forest Sciences Graduate Program and the Forest and Rangeland Stewardship department. The project focuses on collaborative environmental governance , with opportunities to work across disciplines and partner with practitioners to inform policy and programming. Relevant interests include collaboration , natural resource policy and planning...

PhD or MS Graduate Assistantship in Fisheries at Iowa State University This funded research assistantship focuses on fisheries , invasive carp , and native fish ecology , including movement ecology , population dynamics , and analysis of large acoustic telemetry databases from the Missouri and Mississippi basins. The project includes species such as sturgeon and Blue Suckers and offers a strong collaborative environment with graduate and undergraduate students plus state and federal agency partn...

Graduate assistantships are available in Fisheries Conservation at the University of Illinois , Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES). The lab is seeking highly motivated PhD or MS students to join research on freshwater fisheries and conservation. Projects may include: fish passage around lock and dam structures in large rivers , movement ecology of fishes in Lake Michigan , and linking landscape use with the abundance of river fishes . The work combines laboratory e...

Open graduate student positions are available in the Schweikert Lab in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington . The lab is recruiting for two research-focused graduate opportunities in sensory ecology and marine biology : • MSc in Marine Biology : Behavioral Ecology of Dynamic Color Change in Reef Fishes (starting Spring or Summer 2027 ) • PhD in Integrative, Comparative, and Marine Biology : Neuroethology of Adaptive Camouflage in Flatfishes ...

The Bock Lab at Oklahoma State University is recruiting two graduate students for MS or PhD study beginning Fall 2027 in Integrative Biology . The lab combines ecology , developmental biology , and comparative genomics to study how diverse animal life histories emerge and evolve. Possible research directions include temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) in turtles, focusing on ecological, evolutionary, and genomic processes shaping thermal responses, and epigenomic drivers of aging and l...

Two graduate assistantship opportunities are available in the Schweikert Lab in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). The openings are centered on sensory ecology , marine biology , behavioral ecology , neuroethology , and the study of adaptive camouflage and dynamic color change in fishes. One position is for an MSc in Marine Biology focused on Behavioral Ecology of Dynamic Color Change in Reef Fishes (starting Spring or Summer 2027)...

Southern Illinois University’s Multidisciplinary Biomedical & Biological Sciences (MBBS) Graduate Program is accepting applications for research-based MS and PhD study, as well as the non-thesis MS in Biomedical Science . The program spans biomedical and biological sciences with concentration areas including Anatomy & Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Cell Biology, Immunology & Cancer Biology, and Pharmacology & Neuroscience. Applicants should ha...

Applications are open for two fully funded Graduate Research Assistantships at Kansas State University in the Department of Entomology , within the Kim Eco Lab . These opportunities are available at the MSc or PhD level and are designed for students interested in insect ecology , pollinator research , conservation biology , agroecology , regenerative agriculture , GIS , and species distribution modeling . Project 1 focuses on land management and climate effects on insect pollinators in grassland...