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Giza Project Receives Grant from Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

May 30, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share the news that Professor Peter Manuelian’s project, “Pyramids and Progress: Rescuing and Enhancing the Giza Project Database and Website,” has been selected to receive funding from...

Harvard Gazette: Marine vet’s future was a puzzle. Then he found archaeology.

May 27, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is glad to share a new story published in The Harvard Gazette, featuring recent graduate Shane Rice ('25) and Professor Jason Ur. The professor’s office was wallpapered with declassified U.S...

Myriam Lamrani | The Intimacy of Images

May 15, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Myriam Lamrani has a new publication! Lamrani's newly published book, The Intimacy of Images , is based on extensive fieldwork in Mexico. It examines Oaxacan devotees’ close...

Harvard Gazette: Long career in search of ‘how to improve the human condition’ | Medical anthropology pioneer Arthur Kleinman takes a bow

May 06, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is honored to share that Professor Arthur Kleinman recently celebrated his final lecture of 49 years of teaching at Harvard. The Harvard Gazette covered this momentous celebration in a story released...

Introducing 2025 Commencement Marshal David Amorim Caldas, AM, Anthropology

May 05, 2025

Each spring, the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) celebrates one of its most enduring and honored traditions: the selection of Commencement marshals. Nominated by fellow students, graduate program...

Professor Arthur Kleinman's Publication "Medicine in Chinese Cultures" Celebrates 50th Anniversary

April 18, 2025

Gabriella Coleman | Politico: How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them

April 04, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Professor Gabriella Coleman , alongside Eric Reinhart , published an opinion in Politico . The piece, titled "How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them,"...

Julia Fierman | The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Populism

March 28, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Julia Fierman, Lecturer on Anthropology, was selected to write the entry on populism for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology)...

Ryan Christopher Jones | NYT Opinion: The Otherworldly California Waterway That Keeps Exploding Into Politics

March 17, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Graduate Student Ryan Christopher Jones recently published a guest essay in NYT Opinion. The piece, titled “The Otherworldly California Waterway That Keeps Exploding Into...

La poétique de la masculinité | Michael Herzfeld

March 04, 2025

The Department of anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, recently participated in a presentation of the French translation of The Poetics of Manhood, just...

Harvard Anthropology Professor Christina Warinner honored with 2025 Robert W. Sussman Award for Scientific Contributions to Anthropology

February 27, 2025

Harvard Anthropology Professor Christina Warinner has been honored with the 2025 Robert W. Sussman Award for Scientific Contributions to Anthropology by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) . The AAAS is the world's largest...

Recent news from Greece | Harvard Anthropology Emeritus Michael Herzfeld & Associate Myriam Lamrani

February 18, 2025

Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, and Myriam Lamrani, Associate Researcher, both in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, were interviewed together on Greek television on 15 February on the subject...

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