The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share a recent publication from Public Seminar written by Harvard Fellow in Anthropology Abdulgaleel Ahmed titled "Silencing Teachers in Yemen: How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society."
“After nine years of war, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a United Nations report asserted...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to share a new publication from The University of Chicago Press Journals and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory which features a talk by Gabriella Coleman, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard, titled “From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon.”
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Annals of Internal Medicine has published a new editorial by Professor of Anthropology Joseph P. Gone entitled "Suicide in U.S. Indigenous Persons: Reframing the Etiology and Solutions."
Indigenous persons in the United States are distinguished by who we count as kin. Indeed, our lives are organized by...
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is thrilled to share that Dr. Christina Warinner has been awarded a prestigious Research Award by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) in recognition of her contributions to the study of ancient human microbiomes. The Research Award recognizes excellence in archaeological research based on rigorous studies utilizing laboratory and scientific analyses that...
Harvard Anthropology Post-Doctoral Fellow John Walden, and Adrian Chase, former Harvard undergraduate, were recently featured in a Science News article about the Ancient Maya.
Harvard Anthropology Professor Joseph P. Gone was recently featured in a Harvard Gazette article, "How they found the work they were ‘meant’ to do," which explores the many ways current faculty members discovered their scholarly callings.
From West Point to Harvard (via Potok, Freud, and rats), Gone shares:
During an undergraduate holiday break, I returned home to...
We’d like to take a moment to spotlight Harvard Anthropology Assistant Professor Amy E. Clark’s edited volume (published in 2022), which was recently reviewed in the Society for American Archaeology's American Antiquity.
About the volume:
Describing the nature and meaning of artifact spatial patterning can be highly subjective, yet many patterns can be...
We're pleased to share that Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, served as Guest Editor of the Fall 2023 Daedalus Special Issue on Mental Health.
We are all vulnerable to emotional distress. COVID-19 made as much clear, subjecting many of us to the prolonged pain of isolation, loneliness, job and housing insecurity, and grief. The pandemic increased...
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is thrilled to share that Peter Manuelian, Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology, has been granted an award by the Provostial Fund Committee for...
