Department Members

Ashwin Subramanian

ashwinsubramanian@g.harvard.edu

Ajantha Subramanian

subram@fas.harvard.edu

Research Associate in Anthropology

Research and Teaching Interests Political Economy; Colonialism and Postcoloniality; Political Ecology; Space; Social Movements; Citizenship; South Asia; South Asian diaspora. Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies and...

Elisa Tamburo

etamburo@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology

Research Interests Elisa is a sociocultural anthropologist and currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Her...

Gilmore Tamny

gtamny@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair's Office

Administrative Coordinator

Gilmore supports the work of the Department Chair and the Director of Administration and Operation; coordinates faculty searches and faculty promotion reviews; is responsible for visiting scholar and affiliate appointments; assists with coordination and...

Nyamal Tuor

Jason Ur

jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology

Research and Teaching Interests Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus. Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of...

Leonardo Valdez-Ordonez

lvaldezordonez@g.harvard.edu

Elyse Venerable

evenerable@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests Mobility and Trade Networks in Trans-Saharan Africa; Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (Sr,C,N); Zooarchaeology of Working Animals; Black Diasporan Agency and Migration

Elizabeth Wahab

ewahab@bu.edu

Research Associate in Anthropology

Research Interests Archaeology, West Africa, Ancient economies, ancient technologies, craft organization, sociopolitical complexities.

Christina (Tina) Warinner

warinner@fas.harvard.edu

Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology

Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute

Christina (Tina) Warinner is Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She additionally leads international research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the...

James Watson

jwatson@fas.harvard.edu

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 ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain. Dr. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese...

Jesse Wolfhagen

jwolfhagen@fas.harvard.edu

Zooarchaeology Lab Manager

Jesse manages the zooarchaeology laboratory and provides support in training students in faunal identification and interpretation, alongside Prof. Monroe. He is responsible for supporting faculty and students who conduct zooarchaeological research and is...