Strengths & Focus Areas

 

Geography

 

Physical Geography

  • Coastal and Aeolian Geomorphology & Management
  • Climatology
  • Fluvial Geomorphology
  • Hydrology
  • Quaternary Studies
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Tropical Climatology/Meteorology


Human Geography

  • Agricultural and Economic Geography
  • Cultural Geography
  • Feminist Geography
  • Historical Geography
  • Environmental Geography & Political Ecology
  • Urban Geography
  • Medical Geography
  • Anthropology and Geography


Regional Geography

  • United States: Louisiana, the South, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley and the American West
  • Latin America & the Caribbean
  • Southeast Asia
  • China


Methodology

  • Mapping Sciences & GIS
  • Geographic History and Thought
  • Historic Maps & Archival Analysis
  • Fieldwork
  • Qualitative Methods


Anthropology

 

Sociocultural Anthropology

  • Ethnography of Science & Technology
  • Ethnomusicology & Folklore
  • Gender, Place & Culture
  • Medical Anthropology
  • More-than-Human Worlds
  • Oral History
  • Political Anthropology
  • Public Culture, Festivals & Performance
  • Race & Identity
  • Urban Ethnography

 

Linguistic Anthropology

  • Environmental & Conservation Discourses
  • Language, Identity, and Performance
  • Tojol-ab’al Mayan
  • Discourse & Conversation Analysis

 

Archaeology & Material Culture Studies

  • 3D Imaging & Printing
  • Andean Prehistory
  • Architecture & Space
  • Archaeology of Complex Societies
  • Coastal adaptations
  • Contact Period Archaeology & Ethnohistory
  • Cultural Heritage
  • GIS & Spatial Analysis
  • Maya Prehistory
  • Pottery Style & Technology
  • Underwater Archaeology
  • Visual Arts

 

Physical, Biological & Forensic Anthropology

  • Craniodental Morphology
  • Forensics
  • Health, Nutrition & Stress
  • Osteology, Anatomy & Fertility
  • Paleopathology
  • Taphonomy
  • Zooarchaeology

 

Regional Areas of Expertise

  • US: Southeast, Louisiana, New Orleans
  • Africa & African Diaspora
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • South Africa
  • South America

Questions

Contact the graduate coordinator in the Department of Geography & Anthropology:

Camille W. Dupuis
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-6792
gradsec@lsu.edu

Both current and prospective students can start their enrollment by applying to the LSU Graduate School.

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