Official transcripts of undergraduate and graduate studies (if applicable) should be scanned and uploaded into the online application as part of the submission process.

Three letters of recommendation from faculty members or employers who can assess the applicant's academic potential for a graduate program are required.

Please describe (within 1000 words) how your background and experiences influenced your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Additionally, provide insight into your potential to contribute to a community of inclusion, belonging, and respect where scholars representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn and work productively and positively together. Within your statement, you may also include relevant information on any of the following: How your personal, academic, and/or professional experiences demonstrate your ability to be both persistent and resilient especially when navigating challenging circumstances. Describe a long-term project (personal, academic, and/or professional) that you saw through to completion, the challenges involved, and the role you played in addressing them. Share examples of how you engage with others and have facilitated and/or participated in productive collaborative endeavors as a leader or team member. How you have experienced or come to understand the barriers faced by others whose experiences and backgrounds may differ from your own. If relevant, how your research interests focus on issues related to diversity, inclusion, access, inequality, and/or equity. Your service and/or leadership in efforts to advance diversity, inclusion, access, and equity especially by those from backgrounds historically underrepresented and/or marginalized. Additional context around any perceived gaps or weaknesses in your academic record.

Please use the Academic Statement of Purpose to describe (within 1000 words) the substantive research questions you are interested in pursuing during your graduate studies and explain how our program would help you achieve your intellectual goals. Additionally, detail your academic background, intellectual interests, and any training or research experience you have received that you believe has prepared you for our program. Within your statement, please also identify specific faculty members whose research interests align with your own interests.

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