Research Opportunities
Graduate Studies
Professor Cabanes is currently accepting Ph.D. and Masters students for the 2026-27 academic year. Please contact dan.cabanes@rutgers.edu for more information before applying.
Senior Honors Thesis
The Senior Honors Thesis is a very important part of undergraduate studies in the field of Anthropology. Students wishing to pursue an honors thesis should start as early as possible, ideally in the fall semester of their junior year by contacting Professor Cabanes to plan research topics, timing and further research opportunities in the field of archaeology. To be eligible for an honors thesis, students must be majoring in anthropology, have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher and a GPA in anthropology of 3.4 or higher. For more information, click here.
Aresty
Information on Aresty research for the 2026-2027 academic year coming soon.
Volunteer Research
ALMA is open to student volunteers wishing to gain experience working in a laboratory. Volunteering is a great way to learn the basics of laboratory analysis and may lead to future research opportunities. For those interested in volunteering or seeking more information should contact Professor Cabanes via email.
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:
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Universidad de la Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain)
Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers laboratory
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Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Sciences
- Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
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Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
Laboratory of sedimentary archaeology
The Zinman Institute of Archaeology
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Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, IPHES (Tarragona, Spain)
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Fundación Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)
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Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Grup de Recerca Quaternari
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