School Goals for the future

 Okay... so my goal is to be able to be a professor. I would love to be able to teach these subjects; intro and lower level classes for sure, but some advanced or niche classes if I can. 

• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Social Sciences
• Humanities
• Folklore
• Religious studies

The first step is getting my interdisciplinary MA Degree from University of Alabama; all online. This would take about 2 years. Starting in Fall of 2024; so I would be finishing up around Spring of 2025. That would have me with about 5 years left of my big loan I took out for the move - Which I will just absorb into student loans at that point because I am going to have to move for my PhD anyway. 

Which I am torn about because the whole reason I moved up here was to be with my mom. 

Unless I do an online/low residency Phd.  

Ultimately I want to be able to teach in 

D.C., VA, NC, SC, GA, NY, FL, TX, LA, MO (eh...), AZ (eh...), CA, or HI 

Some top contender  PhD Programs:

• GTU (Graduate Theologian Union) - a group of schools that make up an accredited union 
• https://www.gtu.edu/academics/departments-and-concentrations
• PhD of Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
• possible concentrations:
• Anthropology of Religion
• Comparative Religion
• New Religious Movements
• Sociology of Religion 
• PhD of Religion and  Practice
• Possible Concentrations
• Religious Education
• The living for this option would be intensely expensive
• The University of Chicago 
• PhD of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
• https://divinity.uchicago.edu/academics/committees-and-areas-study/anthropology-and-sociology-religions
• Would still be close to mom (3 hours)
• Would have to find a modern issue from one of the classes to create a thesis...
• University of Pennsylvania 
• PhD Anthropology - Cultural Concentration
• There's enough classes I think I could take that would allow me to focus on religion
• https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/phd
• Duke (yes... NC's Duke)
• PhD Sociocultural Anthropology 
• 18 classes
• 4 required courses
• 6  courses must be Anth seminars 
• 2 non cultural anthropology classes (other anth?)
• 6 electives? (up to 5 indep. studies) - bruh all religious studies i swear
• 2 plans of study (due in spring)
• 3 annotated readings required
• MUST be fluent in 1 language
• University of Minnesota 
• PhD in Anthropology 
• there are 2-3 different faculty that study religion in the anthropology department (important for dissertation) 
• a minor is required! - yay religious studies minor
• Language requirement is dependant on what the advisor says
• https://cla.umn.edu/anthropology/graduate/degrees/phd-anthropology
• Arizona State University 
• PhD of Religious studies
• Anthropology of Religion concentration
• 84 credit hours
• 3 core classes (9)
• 51 electives (up to 6 credits of a related discipline [phil?])
• 12 credits of research
• 12 credits for dissertation
• up to 30 credits can be transferred from a masters program!!? <3
• Language requirement
• https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/masters-phd/major/ASU00/LARELIGPHD/religious-studies-phd?init=false&nopassive=true