Faculty

Salmaan Keshavjee

salmaan_keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Harvard Anthropology Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)

Research and Teaching Interests Anthropology of health policy, medical anthropology, anthropology of development, political economy of societies in transition. Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM, is the Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for...

Damina Khaira

dkhaira@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Anthropology

Harvard Anthropology Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies (ADUS)

Research Interests Narrative and storytelling in the lived everyday; creative and visual ethnography; aging and cultural transmission; health/medical humanities; heritage and material culture; sacred arts; Sufi and Sikh studies; South-Southeast Asia...

Arthur Kleinman

kleinman@fas.harvard.edu

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; Caregiving; China; Social Technology for Global Aging. Arthur Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is a physician and anthropologist. A graduate of...

Matthew Liebmann

liebmann@fas.harvard.edu

Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology

Harvard Anthropology Department Chair

Research and Teaching Interests North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA Matthew Liebmann is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. His...

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

pinghsiu_lin@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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...

Diana Loren

Senior Curator, Peabody Museum

Lecturer in Anthropology

Peter Der Manuelian

peter_manuelian@harvard.edu

Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology

Director, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

Research and Teaching Interests Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary architecture, the iconographic nature of Egyptian language and culture in general; the Giza Necropolis , and the application of digital...

Shayla Monroe

shaylamonroe@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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...

Ryo Morimoto

rmorimoto@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor in Anthropology

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...

Michael Puett

puett@fas.harvard.edu

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology

Joint Appointment with East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research and Teaching Interests: Historical anthropology, anthropology of religion, ritual theory, anthropology of the state, comparative anthropology; China. Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, as well as a...

Malavika Reddy

malavika_reddy@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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.

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...