2024

Prof. Anya Bernstein T 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM This course is a critical reading advanced 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...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness T 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM This course tackles the problem of language as theoretical object, practical medium, and methodological instrument of sociocultural analysis. Limited to graduate students.

Prof. Amy Clark W 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Stone tools are the oldest known human technology. They represent the most abundant and arguably one of the most informative elements of the archaeological record for reconstructing ancient human behavior over the last...

Prof. Andrea Wright Th 12:00-2:45pm What is care? How do individuals and communities mobilize care as a form of social intervention, political resistance, and a foundation for intimacy, healing, and hope? In an era marked by profound social upheaval and...

Prof. Ping-hsiu Alice Lin Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM Anthropology is defined by its unique approach to the study of human subjects through what we call “ethnographic methods.” This course, required for undergraduate anthropology concentrators at Harvard, will...

Prof. Peter Der Manuelian Mon. and Wed. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Focuses on the Pyramids, Sphinx, and tombs at Giza (ca. 2500 BC), in the context of ancient Egyptian history, art, and archaeology. The HU-MFA Expedition excavated Giza, resulting in today's Giza...

Prof. Bill Fash This course provides a broad overview of the archaeology of ancient Mexico and Central America, focusing on the Indigenous cultures of highland Mexico such as the Aztecs and Zapotecs, as well as their predecessors and contemporary...