2021

ANTHRO 3410 - Teaching Fellowship

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

N/A
By Arrangement

For students engaged in teaching as a Teaching Fellow. Student should register for four credits per section.

Not counted towards PhD requirements.

ANTHRO 2738 - Remaking Life and Death

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Prof. Anya Bernstein
T 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
 

This course is a critical reading graduate seminar focusing on how defining the boundaries between life and death became a matter of profound political, cultural, and scientific debate. Guided by the concepts of bio- and necropolitics, we will explore the shifting relations between body and person, human and time, and technology and biology while attending to the changing political, biomedical and religious contexts. The course includes readings from a number of anthropological subfields, including medical anthropology...

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ANTHRO 1906 - Care in Critical Times

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Prof. Andrea Wright
 

What is care? How can and do communities mobilize care as a social intervention, political act, and tool for building intimacy, healing, and hope? Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we care for ourselves and our communities, but caring is not an apolitical or individual act and we must analyze the inherent inequalities and social dimensions of what it means to give and receive care.

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FYSEMR 30G - Digging Egypt's Past: Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Peter Der Manuelian
Tues. 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Emerson Hall 318

Mysterious pyramids, colossal royal statues, tiny gold jewelry, decorated tomb chapels, temples, settlements, fortresses, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. This was the excavation legacy in Egypt and Sudan of the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Expedition. Led by Egyptologist George Reisner (1867–1942; new biography just published), this expedition revolutionized archaeological method, and put Harvard Egyptology on the world stage, all during British control of the Egyptian...

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ANTHRO 3626 - Research Design/Proposal Writing

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Gabriella Coleman
W 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM

This course is part seminar, part practicum. Its purpose is to help students conceptualize and design a research project, to craft effective research and grant proposals, and to prepare for ethnographic and archival work. The first and longest part of the course will focus on formulating a researchable project, in all its various elements; how to write a statement of problem, to frame arguments/theses, to situate work in the appropriate anthropological literature/s, to develop a methodological approach, and...

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ANTHRO 3500 - Direction of Doctoral Dissertations

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Department Faculty
By Arrangement

Individual work in preparation for the doctoral dissertation.

Consult the appropriate member of the Department.
Limited to candidates for the PhD in Anthropology who are in residence and who are in good standing in the Graduate School.

ANTHRO 3400 - Full-time Status Reading and Research

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

N/A
By Arrangement

Students enrolled in PhD in Anthropology should utilize this course to indicate time spent researching and reading outside of coursework.

Oftentimes used towards maintaining full-time status, when not enrolled in coursework or writing the dissertation.  Not counted towards PhD requirements.

ANTHRO 3080 - Museum Practicum in Curatorial Research

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Diana Loren
By Arrangement

The purpose of the practicum is to provide curatorial experience in the Peabody Museum (PMAE), directly supervised by a PMAE curator. The practicum is designed to designed to introduce students to contemporary museum curatorial practice, to provide hands-on experience working with PMAE collections, and opportunity for reflexive research based in historical context. The practicum will be developed in consultation with PMAE curator and will be related to PMAE projects and initiatives.

ANTHRO 3002 - Reading for Archaeology General Examination

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Archaeology Faculty 
By Arrangement

Preparation with Archaeology cohort for the general examination in Archaeology. This course should be taken during the fall semester of the second year and involves weekly meetings to study and prepare for the general exams in January.

Restricted to candidates for the PhD degree and ordinarily to those who have completed at least one year in residence.

ANTHRO 3001 - Reading for Social Anthropology General Examination

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Social Anthropology Faculty 
By Arrangement

Individual reading in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. It involves meetings as arranged between professor and graduate student.

Restricted to candidates for the PhD degree and ordinarily to those who have completed at least one year in residence.

ANTHRO 3000 - Supervised Reading Course

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Department Faculty 
By Arrangement

Special reading in selected topics under the direction of members of the Department. Individual work. Must be arranged with a professor listed under Anthropology 3000. Requires written work; it involves meetings as arranged between professor and graduate student.

ANTHRO 99A - Thesis Tutorial in Anthropology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This is a full year research and writing seminar limited to senior honors candidates. The course is intended to provide students with practical guidance and advice during the thesis writing process through structured assignments and peer feedback on work-in-progress. It is intended to supplement not replace faculty thesis advising (with the requirement of consulting regularly with the advisor built into the assignments) and, most importantly, allow students to share their work and experiences with other thesis writers in a collegial and...

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ANTHRO 98A - Junior Tutorial in Anthropology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This course is focused on preparing students to do anthropological fieldwork and develop their own research projects. Through concrete case studies and practical exercises students will be introduced to different approaches to developing research problems, conducting research, and ethnographic writing. Topics covered will include defining research questions and objects of study, situating projects within scholarly literature, and bringing together research data and analysis in different forms of anthropological writing.

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