Latin American and Caribbean Studies
MPhil/PhD Programmes
Available to study anywhere in the world
The School of Advanced Study is the UK's national research hub in the humanities and offers a world-class research environment to our postgraduate students.
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:
- Colonial Latin America
- Latin American history, historiography and anthropology
- Andean History
- Postcolonial Latin American history
- Independence and revolution in Latin America
- Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Social movements and citizenship practices
- Transitional justice, human rights and memory work.
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's occupies a unique position at the core of academic study of the region in the UK. Internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for research facilitation, it serves the wider community through organising academic events, providing online research resources, publishing scholarly writings and hosting visiting fellows.
The School of Advanced Study runs an extensive research training programme, open to all postgraduate students, as well as an active public engagement calendar. The School is part of the AHRC-funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), through which we are able to offer a number of studentships in humanities disciplines, as well as the range of studentships and bursaries available through our institutes.
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:
- Colonial history
- Postcolonial history
- Political and legal anthropology
- Ethnographic research
- Human and cultural geography
- Environmental change
- Cultures of migration and mobility
- Literature and film
- Sociolinguistics and multilingualism
- Cultural Studies
- Digital research.
How to apply
Before agreeing to accept you, the School will require you to submit a research proposal, so it is worthwhile having this drafted ahead of a formal application. Once you have contacted the School, you will be put in touch with a potential supervisor.
Distance learning
Students are required to attend our London campus at set intervals to complete an intensive research training module, for upgrade, and for the viva but will otherwise study at their own location. This option is available to UK, EU and international students on the same basis as our on-campus PhD programmes (three years full time, six years part time). Fees are the same as for our on-campus PhD programmes. Please note that not all institutes and supervisors offer this option, and that some topics are not appropriate to be studied this way.
This programme is also available to be studied on campus in London. Visit the School of Advanced Study website to find out more about potential supervisors and subject areas, as well as details about available funding opportunities and more information about distance learning research degrees.
