Research opportunities
Ph.D. candidates
Professor Cabanes is currently NOT accepting Ph.D. candidates for 2023-24 academic year.
Honor's thesis
The Honor’s thesis is a very important part of the undergraduate studies in the field of Anthropology. If you aim to pursue an Honor’s Thesis during your senior year at Rutgers University, contact Professor Cabanes well in advance to plan research topics, timing and further research opportunities in the field of archaeology.
Laboratory research
ALMA is open to volunteer collaborations and to ARESTY's thesis for undergraduate students.
For more information on the ARESTY's project, visit the official website of the Aresty Research Project at Rutgers University.
Field Research
We are currently working in several archaeological sites along with different institutions around the world that might accept students as volunteers for their excavations. If you are interested in an experience abroad and working in an archaeological excavation, please contact Professor Cabanes for more information. We have an extensive network of collaborators that allows us to put you in contact with different institutions and excavations around the world. Some of the institutions we collaborate with are:
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
Universidad de la Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain)
Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers laboratory
Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Sciences
Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
Laboratory of sedimentary archaeology
The Zinman Institute of Archaeology
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, IPHES (Tarragona, Spain)
Fundación Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)
Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Funding
Both graduate and undergraduate students can apply for different sources of funding available at the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES), and Rutgers University.
Department of Anthropology
Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Undergraduate funding:
Barry C. Lembersky Undergraduate Research Award
Graduate funding:
Albert Fellows Dissertation Research Grant