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Hi all!
I know I'm crazy late responding to your advice, but I wanted to come back and say thanks for the help. I took a lot of the advice given to me here and managed to get everything done and graduate on time!
 
Thanks again!

I am going to echo bio-archfan and recommend you look into Alabama and Emory. Alabama has a specific PhD track in biocultural medical anthropology. However, Alabama requires you to have a master's before entering their PhD program, just as a heads up. A good chunk of the professors at Alabama also got their PhDs at Emory and Case Western, so you've got good contacts to those programs if you decided to attend here for the MA and then go elsewhere for a PhD. 

It might depend on the field, as well as the level at which your institution operates. I attended a terminal master's program, so all graduate students that received funding were either GTAs or GRAs. I was the GTA for my advisor, which included independently designing and teaching a supplementary lab course to his introductory biological anthropology course. 
If you want funding at the master's level, terminal programs are your best bet. That's part of the reason I attended the program I did.

Hi all!
I know I'm crazy late responding to your advice, but I wanted to come back and say thanks for the help. I took a lot of the advice given to me here and managed to get everything done and graduate on time!
 
Thanks again!

Hi all!
I know I'm crazy late responding to your advice, but I wanted to come back and say thanks for the help. I took a lot of the advice given to me here and managed to get everything done and graduate on time!
 
Thanks again!

Hi all!
I know I'm crazy late responding to your advice, but I wanted to come back and say thanks for the help. I took a lot of the advice given to me here and managed to get everything done and graduate on time!
 
Thanks again!

Hi all!
I know I'm crazy late responding to your advice, but I wanted to come back and say thanks for the help. I took a lot of the advice given to me here and managed to get everything done and graduate on time!
 
Thanks again!

I had the same experience, so I'm always confused when other TAs encounter these problems. Most of my students were no more than 2 or 3 years younger than me when I started as a TA and I'm not particularly tall (5'5"). I dress pretty casually as well (dark jeggings, blouse with cardigan, flats). Students would sometimes ask me about why they received the grades they did and always seemed satisfied with the explanation, even if the grade was poor. 
It could potentially be a body language issue? Ten or so years of martial arts have made me a pretty confident person in the face on conflict. That may cause me to subconsciously assert my authority more in my physical presence than some other women do. Above average height might cause others to do this without trying, as well.

It might depend on the field, as well as the level at which your institution operates. I attended a terminal master's program, so all graduate students that received funding were either GTAs or GRAs. I was the GTA for my advisor, which included independently designing and teaching a supplementary lab course to his introductory biological anthropology course. 
If you want funding at the master's level, terminal programs are your best bet. That's part of the reason I attended the program I did.

It might depend on the field, as well as the level at which your institution operates. I attended a terminal master's program, so all graduate students that received funding were either GTAs or GRAs. I was the GTA for my advisor, which included independently designing and teaching a supplementary lab course to his introductory biological anthropology course. 
If you want funding at the master's level, terminal programs are your best bet. That's part of the reason I attended the program I did.

I was accepted to Case Western Reserve University and University of Alabama, both for biocultural anthropology PhD programs. Although CWRU is more prestigious, I'm leaning much more heavily toward Alabama. Their department is so vibrant, and my potential advisor there gave me a personal phone call to let me know of my acceptance. The department offered me a generous funding package, and paid to fly me out for three days to meet everyone and see the campus. 
Still no contact from my potential advisor at Case outside of letting me know I was admitted through a form letter. I should be hearing about funding in the next week. I'm not sure what Case could offer me to change my mind yet, but I'll give them a shot. 

I was accepted to Case Western Reserve University and University of Alabama, both for biocultural anthropology PhD programs. Although CWRU is more prestigious, I'm leaning much more heavily toward Alabama. Their department is so vibrant, and my potential advisor there gave me a personal phone call to let me know of my acceptance. The department offered me a generous funding package, and paid to fly me out for three days to meet everyone and see the campus. 
Still no contact from my potential advisor at Case outside of letting me know I was admitted through a form letter. I should be hearing about funding in the next week. I'm not sure what Case could offer me to change my mind yet, but I'll give them a shot. 

I was accepted to Case Western Reserve University and University of Alabama, both for biocultural anthropology PhD programs. Although CWRU is more prestigious, I'm leaning much more heavily toward Alabama. Their department is so vibrant, and my potential advisor there gave me a personal phone call to let me know of my acceptance. The department offered me a generous funding package, and paid to fly me out for three days to meet everyone and see the campus. 
Still no contact from my potential advisor at Case outside of letting me know I was admitted through a form letter. I should be hearing about funding in the next week. I'm not sure what Case could offer me to change my mind yet, but I'll give them a shot.