The Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) began its activities as a master’s degree in 2007. In 2009, was the opening of the doctorate degree. Thus, we are a still recent Program, but already with national recognition, evidenced by the rapid progression in CAPES’ evaluations.

Currently, we are ten permanent professors and three collaborators, distributed in three lines of research and carrying out several research projects. The main objective of the Program is to offer specialized training at the postgraduate level that allows the professionals to be trained to carry out qualified activities in the area. Thus, it seeks to both meet the demand for student and professional training more specific and appropriate to the lines of research developed by the faculty of the Anthropology area at UFSCar, as well as to strengthen the growing expansion of teaching, research and extension activities of professors of the area, within their own academic projects and that brings together the academic and institutional conditions for its greater consolidation and autonomy.