Department Members

Presley Ackeret

presleyackeret@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair's Office

Communications Coordinator

Presley Ackeret is the Communications Coordinator for the Department of Anthropology, where she combines strategic communications with creative storytelling to amplify the groundbreaking work of Harvard’s anthropologists. She oversees the department’s...

Majid Aldohan

maldohan@g.harvard.edu

Xitlalli Alvarez

alvarez@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests United States, disaster, citizenship, illegality, migrant subjectivity, policing, gender and sexuality, legal and political anthropology.

Hanna Amanuel

hanna_amanuel@hms.harvard.edu

Amy Arsenault

amy_sylvester@fas.harvard.edu

Archaeology Program Office

Staff Assistant

Amy provides a wide variety of front-line administrative support for junior and tenured faculty, their affiliates, lecturers, invited guests, prospective and current students in the Archaeology Program, serving as main public representative to all...

Andrew Bair

andrewbair@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests Ireland, Europe, archaeological geophysics, medieval archaeology, historical archaeology, landscapes, inequality, post-colonialism, materiality, geoarchaeology.

Andrew Barker

andrewbarker@g.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology

Anne Becker

anne_becker@hms.harvard.edu

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Research and Teaching Interests The social and cultural mediation of body image as well as presentation and risk for eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and school-based mental health promotion Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM An...

Anya Bernstein

abernstein@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Anthropology

On Leave AY Fall '25- Spring '26

Research and Teaching Interests Speculative Futures; Science and Technology; Religion and Secularism; Death and Immortality; The Body; Time and Temporality; Human-Animal Relations; Environment and Climate Change; Visual Ethnography; Russia, Inner Asia...

Marlena Billings

mbillings@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests Upper Paleolithic, Southern France, Germany, mobiliary art, cultural transmission, chaîne opératoire, experimental archaeology, usewear, ornamentation

Jack Bishop

jackbishop@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests Northwest Africa, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic, domestication, climate change, culture transmission, sedentism and mobility, molecular archaeology.

Keri Burge

kburge@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests Biomolecular archaeology, human oral microbiome, dental calculus, prehistoric health, human-environment interactions, stable isotope analysis.