USF is the only public university with a PhD program in archaeology in the entire southeastern United States which is located in a major metropolitan area, with the main campus situated on 1750 acres on the outskirts of Tampa. Our PhD curriculum is very flexible, offering specializations in a variety of geographical and topical areas, and is directed at students from a broad range of academic backgrounds. It includes a supervised internship as well as other opportunities for hands-on training and experience in fieldwork and laboratory research. This type of approach to archaeological education has been especially praised by the Society for American Archaeology's Task Force on Curriculum as we move into the 21st century (see recent articles in Antiquity 74(2000):186-189, and the SAA Bulletin 16[5]1998:11-13; 16[3]1998: 26-29; 16[1]1998: 31-33).
USF is one of the largest research universities in the country, and the Anthropology Department is ranked as one of the best within the College of Arts and Sciences. Two new archaeology faculty lines have been added and searches are in progress. The current archaeology faculty specialize in Historic (including urban archaeology and historic preservation, colonial US) and Prehistoric Archaeology in the Eastern and Southeastern United States; Old World prehistory (Europe, the Mediterranean and the Near East); Latin America; Public Archaeology; Museum Studies; and Archaeological Science. There are also archaeologists and other faculty doing archaeology-related research based in the History (historical archaeology, classical archaeology), Geology (composition and provenance of materials; palynology; geomorphology; geochronology; remote sensing), Geography (soil science; GIS), and Religious Studies (Near Eastern and Biblical archaeology) departments, and we have cooperative arrangements with the Tampa Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Natural History and other institutions in the region.
Please visit our website for further details, or contact:
Robert H. Tykot
Associate Professor & Deputy Chair
Director, Laboratory for Archaeological Science
Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave., SOC 107
Tampa, FL 33620-8100 USA
tel: 813 974-7279
fax: 813 974-2668