Faculty

Research Interests

Migration, intimate labor, feminist anthropology, care, gender, activist anthropology, race, engaged scholarship, feminist pedagogy.

Ryo Morimoto is a first-generation college graduate and scholar from Japan, and an assistant professor of anthropology. An ethnographer of human-nuclear relations, his research examines the surreal social (half)life of radiation and radiological materials...

Research Interests

Political and Economic Anthropology, value, commodification, labor and capital, expertise and tacit knowledge, history of geosciences.

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is currently...

Research Interests

African pastoralism, zooarchaeology of the Nile Valley, political ecology of the Sahara and the Sahel, faunal analysis, the effects of climate change on intergroup cooperation and conflict.  

Teaching Interests

Zooarchaeology...

Research Interests

Narrative and storytelling in the lived everyday; creative and visual ethnography; aging and cultural transmission; health/medical humanities; heritage and material culture; sacred arts; Sufi and Sikh studies; South-Southeast Asia...

Research and Teaching Interests

Cultures of Hacking, Science and Technology Studies, Media Anthropology, The Cultures of Liberalism, Digital Activism, Security. 

Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard...

Research and Teaching Interests

Medical, psychological, and psychiatric anthropology; primary research on serious mental illness in Java and traumatic violence in Aceh (Indonesia); studies of subjectivity in Indonesia, on haunting, ‘hauntology,’ and...

Research and Teaching Interests

Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization: Mesoamerica.

Davíd Carrasco (Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America) is a Mexican American historian of religions with...