Harvard Anthropology Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Gabriella Coleman was featured in the series "I Saw the Sign" which aired recently on European TV Arte. Coleman was interviewed for an episode covering “Anonymous” and speaks to the symbolism of the famous Guy Fawkes mask.

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The Department of Anthropology is pleased to share that Peter Manuelian, Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and Director of Harvard's Museum of the Ancient Near East, has been awarded a Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities towards his proposal “Life Writing at the Giza Pyramids: An archaeological biography shot in 360-degree video.” This fund will support a project geared towards making...

Harvard Anthropology Professor Arthur Kleinman was recently featured in The Harvard Crimson's interview series "Fifteen Questions" in which he shares his thoughts on caregiving, field research in China, and his "love story." 

A professor of anthropology of over 40 years, Kleinman studies patient-caregiver relationships in Asia. “I had the personal experience of taking care of my late wife, Joan, for 10 and a half years while she suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s disease and died from it,” he says. “That experience was transformative for me. I...

Recently featured by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Harvard Anthropology Professor Peter Manuelian continues his work in commemorating George Reisner (1867-1942), American Archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Few, in the field of Egyptology, would claim not to know George Andrew Reisner.

A celebrated American archaeologist and Egyptologist, Reisner’s...