Harvard Anthropology Professor Christina Warinner recently returned from a trip to Nepal where she, along with the Warinner Group, met with and presented at multiple schools and community groups.
Harvard Anthropology Professor Arthur Kleinman was recently featured in The Harvard Crimson's interview series "Fifteen Questions" in which he shares his thoughts on caregiving, field research in China, and his "love story."
A professor of anthropology of over 40 years, Kleinman studies patient-caregiver relationships in Asia. “I had the personal experience of taking care of my late wife, Joan, for 10 and a half years while she suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s disease and died from it,” he says. “That experience was transformative for me. I...
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Andrea Wright, Assistant Dean of Harvard College and Lecturer on Anthropology, has received a 2024-2025 Mittal Faculty Grant for her project titled "Tired...
Recently featured by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Harvard Anthropology Professor Peter Manuelian continues his work in commemorating George Reisner (1867-1942), American Archaeologist and Egyptologist.
Few, in the field of Egyptology, would claim not to know George Andrew Reisner.
A celebrated American archaeologist and Egyptologist, Reisner’s...
We're pleased to share that a recent publication from the UC Medical Humanities Press Book Series features an essay by Ryan Christopher Jones, a current Harvard Anthropology PhD student.
Jones's essay, titled "On Witnessing: Photojournalism and Visualized Trauma Photographs from the sacrament of last rites in Boston hospitals, Spring 2020," delves into early COVID coverage and the moral wrangling that comes with the witnessing of suffering for public audiences.
Jones shares:
This essay recounts my experience of documenting Covid’s initial...
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is glad to share a new article written by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, and published by Think Global Health. The piece, titled "Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment: Reflecting on Paul Farmer's extraordinary legacy," delves into the life and work of the late Kolokotrones University Professor...