Faculty

Anya Bernstein

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Joint appointment with Social Studies
On Leave AY 2017-2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Russia, Eurasia, religion, transnational processes, indigeneity, body politics,...

Theodore C. Bestor

Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
On Leave Spring 2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Food culture and food systems; markets and marketplaces;...

Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America
Joint appointment with Harvard Divinity School
On Leave Spring 2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization:...

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Professor of Visual Arts and of Anthropology
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)

Research and Teaching Interests: Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology, post-human and multi-...

Steve Caton

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

Research and Teaching Interests: Linguistics,...

Jean Comaroff

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

Research and Teaching Interests: Theory and method; embodiment and commodification; ritual and religion;...

John Comaroff

Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology
Oppenheimer Research Fellow

Research and Teaching Interests: ...

Peter Der Manuelian

Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology
Director, Harvard Semitic Museum

Research and Teaching Interests: Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary...

Paul Farmer

Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Research and Teaching Interests: Health and human rights; Role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of...

William L. Fash

Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
On Leave Spring 2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Cultural process, settlement...

Rowan Flad

John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology
Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)
Head Tutor, Archaeology

Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese Archaeology;...

Byron Good

Professor
Harvard Medical School

Research and Teaching Interests: Medical, psychological, and psychiatric anthropology; primary research on serious mental...

Susan Greenhalgh

John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society

Research and Teaching Interests: Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Anthropology of the State,...

Nicholas Harkness

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
On Leave Spring 2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion;...

Michael Herzfeld

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Director, Thai Studies Program, Asia Center
On Leave Spring 2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history;...

Ieva Jusionyte

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
Joint appointment with Social Studies

Research and Teaching Interests: Political and legal anthropology; Statecraft, borders, and security; Crime and...

Arthur Kleinman

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Research and Teaching Interests: Global Mental Health; Social Medicine; Medical Humanities; Social Suffering...

Matthew Liebmann

Professor
Archaeology Program Director

Research and Teaching Interests: North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and...

Richard H. Meadow

Senior Lecturer
Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)

Research and Teaching Interests: Archaeology of South and West Asia; the Indus Civilization; Zooarchaeology;...

George Paul Meiu

Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with African and African American Studies

Research and Teaching Interests: Race and ethnicity; Sexuality and sexual citizenship; Kinship; Gender; Economic...

Michael Puett

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
Professor of Anthropology
Joint Appointment with East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations...

Jeffrey Quilter

Senior Lecturer
Director, Peabody Museum

Research and Teaching Interests: Andean South America, The Intermediate Area, and interactions between and shared culture...

Laurence Ralph

Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology
Joint appointment with African and African American Studies
On Leave AY 2017-2018

Research and Teaching Interests: Gang Formations; Urban Anthropology; Disability; Medical Anthropology;...

Ajantha Subramanian

Professor
Social Anthropology Program Director

Research and Teaching Interests: Political Economy; Colonialism and Postcoloniality; Political Ecology; Space;...

Christian Tryon

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Research and Teaching Interests: The archaeological, evolutionary, environmental and geological context of early...

Jason Ur

Professor

Research and Teaching Interests: Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex...

Gary Urton

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies
Department Chair

Research and Teaching Interests: South American archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology; ancient accounting and...