Fall

By Arrangement Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum (PM) collections approved by the PM Director and directly supervised by a member of the PM curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a museum collection developed in consultation with the...

By Arrangement Special study of selected topics in archaeology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the department. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/fail. To enroll, a student must submit a petition form (contact...

By Arrangement Special study of selected topics in archaeology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the department. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/fail. To enroll, a student must submit a petition form (available...

Prof. Byron Good Thurs. 12:00 - 2:45 PM Tozzer 102 This course is designed for students beginning graduate study in social and cultural anthropology and is required for all first-year Social Anthropology graduate students. It is intended to provide...

Prof. Ajantha Subramanian Tues. 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Tozzer 203 This course considers space as a structuring principle of social life and as a product of political activity. It treats space as a dynamic force animating human existence rather than as its...

Profs. Salmaan Keshavjee, Mercedes Becerra, Scott Podolsky W 12-2:45 PM Social medicine is a field of study and practice that uses insights from the social sciences to improve medical theory and the delivery of health care. This course will explore the...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness T 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM This course tackles the problem of language as theoretical object, practical medium, and methodological instrument of sociocultural analysis. Limited to graduate students.

Prof. Anna Jabloner Wed. 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Peabody 12 This seminar is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist science studies. As the feminist movements of the 1970s began to change the American political landscape, academic feminists...

Prof. Malavika Reddy Thurs. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Tozzer 203 How does paper work in contemporary life? This course approaches this question by focusing on the paperwork, files, and record keeping practices of three organizational forms – bureaucracy, the...

Prof. Jason Ur Thurs. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Peabody 12 This graduate seminar reviews critical issues in archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies, including writing, trade, craft specialization, technology, landscape, urbanism, and...