Rice University, based in Houston, Texas offers a fully funded PhD in Archaeology. The Department of Anthropology’s doctoral program offers advanced training in social/cultural anthropology and archaeology. The archaeology faculty seeks students with research interests complementary to their own. Faculty research writing is ongoing in several fields: the emergence of complex societies and urbanism, settlement studies, origins of food production, the Late Stone Age and Iron Age in Africa, and historical archaeology. All students admitted to the graduate program are fully funded for five years, dependent on the maintenance of good standing. The funding package includes tuition remission, a partial health insurance subsidy, and a stipend for living expenses.