Department Members

Patricia Capone

Curator of North American Collections, Peabody Museum

Lecturer in Anthropology

Davíd Carrasco

david_carrasco@harvard.edu

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America

Joint appointment with Harvard Divinity School

Research and Teaching Interests Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization: Mesoamerica. Davíd Carrasco (Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America) is a Mexican American historian of religions with...

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

lgtaylor@fas.harvard.edu

John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology

Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)

On Leave Fall '25 Term

Research and Teaching Interests Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology, post-human and multi-species anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West. Director...

Steve Caton

caton@wjh.harvard.edu

Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies

Emeritus

Research and Teaching Interests Linguistic anthropology, film studies, anthropology of water, Middle East Studies. Since the beginning of his career, Caton has been a specialist of Arabic and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Yemen and the Arabian...

Andrew Cepeda

acepeda@fas.harvard.edu

Social Anthropology Program Office

Staff Assistant

Andrew provides a wide variety of front-line administrative support for junior faculty, affiliates, lecturers, prospective and current students in the Social Anthropology Program, and serves as main public representative to all visitors of the Program. He...

Amy E. Clark

amy_clark@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

On Leave AY Fall '25- Spring '26

Research and Teaching Interests Hunter-gatherer archaeology, lithic technology, spatial analysis, Neanderthals, archaic and modern humans, Paleolithic Europe, Middle and Late Stone Age in North Africa. Amy Clark’s research focuses on the evolution and...

Gabriella Coleman

egabriella_coleman@fas.harvard.edu

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences

On Leave AY Fall '25- Spring '26

Research and Teaching Interests Cultures of Hacking, Science and Technology Studies, Media Anthropology, The Cultures of Liberalism, Digital Activism, Security. Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard...

Jean Comaroff

jeancomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

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

Emerita

Research and Teaching Interests Theory and method; embodiment and commodification; ritual and religion; medicine; politics and ideology; crime and forensics; colonialism; Southern Africa. Jean Comaroff was educated at the University of Cape Town and the...

Emily Conlogue

econlogue@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests US Southwest, colonialism, religion, historical archaeology, landscape, rock art. Emily studies religion and colonialism through an archaeological lens, seeking to redress a chronological and theoretical gap in the way that...

Undergraduate Coordinator

anthrouc@fas.harvard.edu

Yufei Deng

yufei_deng@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests Chinese archaeology, Early Imperial China, transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age, craft production, center and periphery Yufei (Chinese: 邓雨菲 ) is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in archaeology at Harvard University. She is...

Gangsim Eom

geom@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests Anthropology of development; techno-politics; identity and social belonging; labor and industrialization; infrastructure; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; South Korea.