Ladder Faculty

Ryo Morimoto is a first-generation college graduate and scholar from Japan, an assistant professor in anthropology, and the 2026-2027 Cabot House Scholar-in-Residence at Harvard University. An environmental anthropologist and ethnographer of human-nuclear...

Research Interests

Political and Economic Anthropology, value, commodification, labor and capital, expertise and tacit knowledge, history of geosciences.

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is currently...

Research Interests

African pastoralism, zooarchaeology of the Nile Valley, political ecology of the Sahara and the Sahel, faunal analysis, the effects of climate change on intergroup cooperation and conflict.  

Teaching Interests

Zooarchaeology...

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...

Research and Teaching Interests

Global Mental Health; Social Medicine; Medical Humanities; Social Suffering; Caregiving; China; Social Technology for Global Aging.

Arthur Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is a physician and anthropologist. A graduate of...

Research and Teaching Interests

Medical, psychological, and psychiatric anthropology; primary research on serious mental illness in Java and traumatic violence in Aceh (Indonesia); studies of subjectivity in Indonesia, on haunting, ‘hauntology,’ and...

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...

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...

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 of...

Malavika Reddy is a sociocultural anthropologist. Dr. Reddy’s research focuses on the law and its limits, kingship and sovereignty, liberalism, and the anthropology of borders. Her work examines these themes through ethnographic research in Thailand.