Hi! Hope you're well - and that exams are not stressing you out too much (best of luck with those!). I wanted to ask you about the anthro department at Cambridge - I have to choose between there and Oxford for my masters and as I don't know any anthro student in either, I thought I would ask you. How would you rate the department? How flexible is it in terms of options/specialties? How good are the resources? It'd be super helpful. Thank you! (and no worries if you can't answer) x
(So sorry for all these late responses!) Cambridge’s anthropology department is good, but like all other departments, the area that you want to specialise in will influence how much you get out of the university! For instance, I’m really interested in the middle east but we cover very little middle eastern anthropology (I was supervised for my dissertation by the only person in the department who focused on that region) - off the topic of my head, the main interests are science and society, ethical areas like the ontological turn, regions like south asia and inner asia, and so on! Masters wise, I’m unsure about how much choice there are in the options, but it’s quite a small department - we share libraries with the other subjects in the Human, Social and Political Sciences tripos and we have a small building! Hope this is somewhat helpful!
