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Prospective graduate students have been writing me for advice about doctoral and masters programs in visual anthropology. Since my previous entry on this topic is outdated, I've decided to update it to the best of my current knowledge.

M.A. Programs

• USA: San Francisco State University, MA in Visual Anthropology
  
• USA: University of Southern California - Masters in Visual Anthropology
  

Ph.D. Granting Institutions with Visual Anthropology Programs/Faculty

• USA: Harvard University - Sensory Ethnograph Lab and Secondary PhD in Film and Visual Studies
• USA: New York University - Profs. Faye Ginsburg, Tejaswini Ganti, Haidy Geismar, Noelle Stout. Also see Center for Media, Culture, and History
• USA: Temple University - faculty
• USA: U. of South Carolina - Ph.D. with research foci in visual anthropology
• USA: Yale University - Karen Nakamura*

* Italics = denotes junior faculty member who may or may not be taking on graduate students.

Note that the wikipedia entry on Visual Anthropology also has a very useful list of visual anthropology programs.

I'll keep updating this list, if you have any suggestions, additions, corrections, feel free to e-mail me or drop a comment below. Last updated: 2009/10/23

I don't know if I ever linked to Prof. Steven Fedorowicz's Visual Anthropology of Japan Blog, but just in case I haven't:

http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/

Steven has a very nice section on the Ethics of Visual Anthropology in Japan -- especially intended for his students.

As Borat would say, "Verrrryy niiiice!"

An undergraduate student noted that there weren't many doctoral or masters programs in visual anthropology. The Society for Visual Anthropology has a list that is relatively kept up to date:

• http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/programs.html (link broken)

Update 2009.10: It looks like the SVA didn't archive this page before moving their website to a new system. I used the Wayback Machine to grab the 2008 version of the page and include here (after the jump) as a reference. I'll remove it if the SVA wants me to:

I was doing some research last semester for my Visual Anthropology course and came across some excellent online articles on low-budget lighting:

• http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/lighting/spears1.php (Assembling a low-budget light kit part 1 by Scott Spears
• http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/lighting/hdlightkit1.php Home Depot Light Kit by Martian Welk
• http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=19944