Graduate Student Organizations

Anthropology Graduate Students Organized for Research and Action

AGORA is an organization run by current Anthropology graduate students. Its activities vary from year to year depending on the goals of the students involved at the time. Some goals of A.G.O.R.A. in the past have been to develop community among the subdisciplines, represent student concerns to faculty, and help with orientation and mentoring of incoming students.

The Kroeber Anthropological Society

KAS is a student-run professional society composed of Anthropology graduate students. Its activities vary from year to year depending on the goals of the students involved at the time, but in the past, it has included invited speakers, a noon-time lecture series, an annual meeting, and the Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, a publication with worldwide circulation. KAS was begun over fifty years ago as a learned society that would give students the experience of preparing papers for presentation and publication, activities that would be expected of them as professional anthropologists.