General Admission Contact
The New School for Social Research
Office of Admission
72 Fifth Avenue, 1st floor
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5600 or 800.523.5411
SocialResearchAdmit@newschool.edu
Admissions Liaison
anthliaison@newschool.edu
Department of Anthropology
6 East 16th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.229.5757 x3016
Fax: 212.229.5595
Mailing Address
79 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor
New York, NY 10003
Chair
Hugh Raffles
Senior Secretary
Charles Whitcroft
Student Advisor
Uttamasha Dutta
Through cutting-edge empirical, historical, and ethnographic scholarship, students and faculty in the Department of Anthropology address the urgent social and political problems of the 21st century. Founded in 1971 and regarded as one of the leading anthropology graduate programs in the US, the department is dedicated to interdisciplinary breadth and innovative research with emphasis on fieldwork and archival research, the role of the imagination in theoretical reflection and writing, multimedia exploration and experimental methodologies.
With a strong record of job placement and grants, the department offers students in both the MA and PhD programs the tools to navigate the uncertain and intertwined worlds in which we live. Outside of coursework, the department offers teaching opportunities, a robust public lecture aseries, an end of year conference, field outings and collaborations with arts venues, community organizations, and activists in New York and around the world.
Students participate in departmental life through the Anthropology Students Association and the development of their own projects. Examples of student projects include work on robotics and loneliness in Japan; activism in Afro-Dutch communities in Suriname, Curaçao, and the Netherlands; accompaniment in assisted dying in Switzerland; AI and spirits in the production, interpretation, and representation of memory related to the legacy of Transatlantic Slavery in Nigeria; underground psychedelic practices in Taiwan.
Get to know the Anthropology community here and through the program’s student-run blog, AnthroBlog.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.