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Jason Ur

jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology

Research and Teaching Interests Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus. Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of...

Leonardo Valdez-Ordonez

lvaldezordonez@g.harvard.edu

Elyse Venerable

evenerable@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests Mobility and Trade Networks in Trans-Saharan Africa; Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (Sr,C,N); Zooarchaeology of Working Animals; Black Diasporan Agency and Migration

Elizabeth Wahab

ewahab@bu.edu

Research Associate in Anthropology

Research Interests Archaeology, West Africa, Ancient economies, ancient technologies, craft organization, sociopolitical complexities.

Christina (Tina) Warinner

warinner@fas.harvard.edu

Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology

Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute

Archaeology Program Coordinator

Christina (Tina) Warinner is the Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology in the Departments of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and she leads international research groups at the Max Planck Institute for...

James Watson

jwatson@fas.harvard.edu

John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society

Emeritus

Research Interests Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain. Dr. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese...

Jesse Wolfhagen

jwolfhagen@fas.harvard.edu

Zooarchaeology Lab Manager

Jesse manages the zooarchaeology laboratory and provides support in training students in faunal identification and interpretation, alongside Prof. Monroe. He is responsible for supporting faculty and students who conduct zooarchaeological research and is...

Andrea Wright

andreawright@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Anthropology

Allston Burr Resident Dean of Eliot House

Assistant Dean of Harvard College

Research Interests Migration, intimate labor, feminist anthropology, care, gender, activist anthropology, race, engaged scholarship, feminist pedagogy.

Sneha Yelamanchili

snehayelamanchili@college.harvard.edu

Social Anthropology and Archaeology (Combined Track)

Class of 2026

Hi everyone! My name is Sneha, and I am a junior in Leverett House studying Anthropology (Social Anthropology & Archaeology) and Chemical & Physical Biology. I spent most of my childhood in southwestern Indiana but have lived in several places throughout...

Armanc Yildiz

ayildiz@g.harvard.edu

Research Associate in Anthropology

Research Interests Spirituality and religion, sexuality, race, knowledge, value, the anthropology of the body, social studies of science and medicine, Germany, Europe.