Faculty

Research and Teaching Interests

Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus.

Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of...

Research and Teaching Interests

Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology, post-human and multi-species anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West.

Director of...

Malavika Reddy is a sociocultural anthropologist. Dr. Reddy’s research focuses on the law and its limits, kingship and sovereignty, liberalism, and the anthropology of borders. Her work examines these themes through ethnographic research in Thailand. 

Research and Teaching Interests

North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA

Matthew Liebmann is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.  His research...

Research and Teaching Interests: 

Historical anthropology, anthropology of religion, ritual theory, anthropology of the state, comparative anthropology; China.

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, as well as a...

Research and Teaching Interests

Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; South Korea.

Nicholas Harkness is the Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in the...

Research and Teaching Interests

Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Interregional Interaction and the Proto-Silk-Road; Technology and Technological Change; Specialization; Zooarchaeology. Emergence and...

Research and Teaching Interests

Anthropology of health policy, medical anthropology, anthropology of development, political economy of societies in transition. 

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM, is the Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Global...

Christina (Tina) Warinner is Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She additionally leads international research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the...

Research and Teaching Interests

The social and cultural mediation of body image as well as presentation and risk for eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and school-based mental health promotion

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM  An...