Christina Warinner Promoted to Full Professor of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is thrilled to share that Christina Warinner has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Full Professor with tenure.

Tina wishes to share:

I am absolutely thrilled to be promoted to full Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and I am so excited for all the great things on the horizon!

The department extends its sincere gratitude for Warinner's magnificent work and impact within our community, and couldn't be more pleased to announce such a well-deserved promotion.

Christina Warinner is a Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and the Sally Starling Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She specializes in the analysis of ancient DNA and proteins, and her research focuses on the study of ancient biomolecules to better understand past human diet, health, and the evolution of the human microbiome. She has conducted groundbreaking studies on the evolution and changing ecology of the human oral microbiome, including reconstructing the oldest microbiome to date from a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal, and she has published extensively on prehistoric migrations, the origins and spread of dairy pastoralism, and the biodiversity of the human gut microbiome. She is the President of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology, and the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Exemplary Cross-Fields Award, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies Article Award, and the Shanghai Archaeological Forum Research Award. She serves on the Leadership Team of the Max Planck – Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean and leads international research teams at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology in Jena, Germany. She has been invited to speak by the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the British Academy, and the Nobel Foundation, and her TED Talks have been viewed more than 2 million times. In addition to her research, she is passionate about public education and outreach, and she created the Adventures in Archaeological Science coloring book, now available in more than sixty languages, including many indigenous and underrepresented languages. She is engaged in the open science movement, and her research group has been actively involved in improving scholarly communication, data sharing, and research transparency.