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Professor Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, died on July 1, 2021 after a long illness. Professor Bestor joined the Harvard Anthropology faculty in 2001 and served as Chair of the Department of...

Miranda Agnew and Matthew Rossi were selected as Final Senior members of Phi Beta Kappa for the Class of 2021. View the full list of members for the Class of 2021. Che Applewhaite, Smit Chitre, Ashley Cooper, Isaac Longobardi, Jamie Paterno Ostmann...

Diapers and Other Queer Objects: An Interview with George Paul Meiu in Society for Cultural Anthropology. Read the article here.

Sally Falk Moore, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, died on May 2, 2021 at the age of 97. Professor Moore joined Harvard's Department of Anthropology in 1981. She was dean of the Graduate School from 1985 to 1989. In 2010, she was...

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Professors Nicholas Harkness, Arthur Kleinman, Anne Becker, and Zoe Eddy were all nominated for the Star Prize this year! Click here to view the 2021 Star Prize nominees. For more information about the 2021 Star Prize for Excellence in Advising, click...

"We think we’re seeing evidence of a really ancient behavior that might have been part of encephalization — or the growth of the human brain,” said Harvard Professor Christina Warinner, Ph.D. ’10. “It’s evidence of a new food source that early humans were...