Social Anthropology

Gbemisola Abiola

Research Interests

Post (post) colonial studies, African literature, African political thought, war studies, and critical terrorism studies....

James Watson

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...

Malavika Reddy

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
On Leave AY 22-23

Malavika Reddy is a sociocultural anthropologist. Dr. Reddy’s research focuses on the law and its shadows; kingship, authority and...

Anya Bernstein

Professor of Anthropology
On Leave Fall 2022

Research and Teaching Interests

Religion and secularism, death and immortality, science and technology, futurism, body, materiality, time and...

Susan Greenhalgh

John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society
Emerita

Research Interests

Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Global Health, Public Health, Health Policy; Anthropology of the...

Michael Herzfeld

Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences
Emeritus

Research Interests

Social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history; Europe (especially Greece & Italy), and...

Byron Good

Professor of Medical Anthropology
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Research and Teaching Interests

Medical, psychological, and psychiatric anthropology; primary research on serious mental illness in Java and...

Nicholas Harkness

Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)

Research and Teaching Interests

Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; South Korea.

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Jean Comaroff

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology

Research and Teaching Interests

Theory and method; embodiment and commodification; ritual and religion; medicine;...

Andrea Wright

Lecturer
Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Elliot House

Research and Teaching Interests

Gender, intimate labor, migration, race, feminist anthropology, activist anthropology, multi-sited...

Paul Farmer

Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Dr. Paul Farmer passed away on Feb. 21st, 2022. Please read our In Memoriam.

Research and Teaching Interests

Health and human rights; Role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of disease; Treatment of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis) in resource-poor settings; Building comprehensive primary health care systems in resource-poor settings in resource-poor settings.

Current Projects

Medical work in Haiti and Rwanda; Research and writing on structural violence, health, and human rights; Editorship of the open-access journal Health and Human Rights; Reconstruction in Haiti following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
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Harvard Medical School
Department of Global Health & Social Medicine
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