Faculty

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...

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...

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...

William L. Fash

wfash@fas.harvard.edu

Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology

Research and Teaching Interests Cultural heritage, landscape archaeology, Mesoamerican cosmovision and iconography, archaeological conservation and site management, museum studies. William Fash worked on archaeological digs in Arizona and in Central...

Rowan Flad

rflad@fas.harvard.edu

John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology

Department Chair

Research and Teaching Interests Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Interregional Interaction and the Proto-Silk-Road; Technology and Technological Change; Specialization; Zooarchaeology. Emergence and...

Joseph P. Gone

jgone@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine

Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program

Research and Teaching Interests: Indigenous peoples of the USA and Canada; Culture, Coloniality, & Mental Health; Cultural Psychology & Indigenous Community Well-Being; Innovative Community Mental Health Services. Joseph P. Gone is Professor in the...

Byron Good

byron_good@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Medical Anthropology

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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...

Nicholas Harkness

harkness@fas.harvard.edu

Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology

Social Anthropology Program Director

Research and Teaching Interests Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; South Korea. Nicholas Harkness is the Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in the...