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By Arrangement

Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum collections directly supervised by a faculty member and a member of the curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a Harvard Museum collection, developed in consultation with the supervisors.

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By Arrangement

Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum (PM) collections approved by the PM Director and directly supervised by a member of the PM curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a museum collection developed in consultation with the supervisor.

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Prof. Ajantha Subramanian

Th 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

This required seminar offers an overview of theoretical trends in social anthropology from approximately the 1960s and situates these trends within longer genealogies of social thought. The central animating concept guiding our foray into social theoretical and anthropological work is "Power." Our analysis of the social workings of power will be structured by four conceptual rubrics: political economy, institutions, knowledge, and space.

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Required of candidates for the PhD in...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness

M 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM 

This seminar examines the mediation of socio-cultural life by sign phenomena in multiple modalities of experience.

Prof. Christina Warinner

T/Th 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

All good research begins with a strong foundation. This course is aimed at providing you with the foundational knowledge and basic tools you need to succeed as a professional archaeologist. Aided in part by guest speakers from within and beyond Harvard, this course emphasizes collaborative research, presentation, publication, grant proposal writing, conflict resolution, and other skills to help you complete your PhD and to be competitive on the job market afterwards, and to navigate the complex intellectual, social,...

Prof. Sarah Hlubik

W 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM

This is a quantitative methods course geared toward archaeological data analysis. The course will focus on types of data, descriptive and analytical statistics, and mapping and spatial relationships. Students will become familiar with multiple commonly used software packages to conduct analyses.