Anthropological training and experience are applicable in many work settings, but require anthropologist to stretch their imaginations to envision possibilities. Finding these jobs may require exploring opportunities that do not sound like traditional anthropology and communicating to others how your experiences and education can be applied in a range of situations that are not commonly thought of as anthropology. Anthropologists can work in intercultural training, as program directors, refugee service coordinators, policy scientists, curators, marriage and family therapists, administrators, survey researchers, market analysts, and as consultants to a range of private and public sector entities. An anthropologist might work for a large international drug company involved in research on nutrition and infant feeding practices; or for a US consulting company that assist large corporations in employee relations and human resource management issues, as an ethics consultant to physicians and families, or as part of a program development team in the Education department of a museum.

The Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University offers two graduate degree programs: the MA in Medical Anthropology and the Ph.D. in Anthropology (with an MA awarded en route to the Ph.D.). In the Ph.D. program, you can concentrate either in Cultural Anthropology or in Archaeology (or you can develop a specialized/combined track with faculty approval).