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Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Secularism and Religion, Liberalism, Language and the Law, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, Ethnography of the State, South Asia.
aaahmed [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-5690, William James Hall 314
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Ofer Bar-Yosef, George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology; Curator of Paleolithic Archaeology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: The origin of modern humans and early farming societies; Near East.
obaryos [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-2252, Peabody Museum 57 D
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Theodore C. Bestor, Professor,
Chair of the Department of Anthropology
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Markets, globalization, urban studies, economic institutions and exchange; food systems and cultures, space, place and identity; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic.
Teaching and Research Office:
bestor [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-6539, William James Hall 420
Chair's Office:
anthropology_chair [at] fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-5820, Peabody Museum
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Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America; joint
appointment with Harvard Divinity School
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization: Mesoamerica.
david_carrasco [at] harvard.edu | website
(617) 384-9499, Peabody Museum 57A
(617) 384-7953, Divinity Hall 304
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Lucien Castaing Taylor, Assistant Professor; joint appointment with the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West.
lucien_castaing-taylor [at] harvard.edu | website
(617) 495- 9706, Sever Hall 438
On Leave AY 2009-10
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Steve Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Linguistics, cultural studies, gender, Yemeni poetics and politics, US men's movement.
caton [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-1886, William James Hall 318
On Leave AY 2009-10
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William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology; Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Cultural process, settlement pattern analysis,symbolism and archaeological conservation, Mesoamerica.
wfash [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-4884, Peabody Museum 24-2
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Rowan Flad, Associate Professor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistance of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Specialization; Zooarchaeology.
rflad [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-1966, Peabody Museum 57G
On Leave AY 2009-10
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Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor; joint appointment with the Department of African and African American Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Anthropology of Science; Medical Anthropology; Race; Health Disparities; Global Health Politics; especially in France, Senegal, West Africa, and the United States.
dfullwil [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-4987, William James Hall 336
On Leave AY 2009-10
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Byron Good, Professor; joint appointment with Harvard Medical School
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical and psychiatric anthropology; cultural psychology of Middle East and of American health, Iran, Turkey and the USA.
byron_good [at] hms.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3904, William James Hall 340
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Michael Herzfeld, Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history; Europe (especially Greece & Italy), and Thailand.
herzfeld [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-5190, William James Hall 380
On Leave Spring 2010
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Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology; Director of the Asia Center; joint appointment with Harvard Medical School
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Anthropology: social experience, suffering, social and mental health; China, Taiwan, North America.
kleinman [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3846, William James Hall 330
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Smita Lahiri, Associate Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Popular religion, religious change and the politics of religion; comparative colonialisms and post-colonial identities; Southeast Asia (the Philippines); rationality; historical ethnography; history of anthropology.
lahiri [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-9647, William James Hall 348
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C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: The urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction.
karlovsk [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-8162, Peabody Museum 57J
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Matthew Liebmann, Assistant Professor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA.
liebmann [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-3125, Peabody Museum 57I
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Richard H. Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Archaeology Program Undergraduate Tutor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Archaeology of South and West Asia; the Indus Civilization; Zooarchaeology; domestication of animals; origins of agriculture.
meadow [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3354, Peabody Museum 35B
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Sally Falk Moore, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: law; politics; kinship; social structure; Africa.
smoore [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3835, William James Hall 350
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Jeffrey Quilter, Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director, Peabody Museum
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Andean South America, The Intermediate Area, and interactions between and shared culture among New World peoples. Social change and transformations. Ancient and Non-Western Art. The limits and potentials of archaeology in understanding the past.
quilter [at] fas.harvard.edu | Magdalena de Cao Viejo Project | website
(617) 496-9655, Peabody Museum 37
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Mary Steedly, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Anthropology Program Head Tutor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Historical ethnography; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; Indonesia; southern U.S. and military culture.
msteed [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3730, William James Hall 440
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Ajantha Subramanian, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of
Anthropology and of Social Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Postcolonial anthropology, political theory political economy, race, class, multiculturalism, liberalism and equality, nations and minorities, capitalism and community secularism and religion. South Asia.
subram [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-3462, William James Hall 384
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Stanley J. Tambiah, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: religion and ritual; economics; politics; kinship; social stratification; ethno-nationalist conflicts and collective violence; South and Southeast Asia.
tambiah [at] wjh.harvard.edu| website
William James Hall 410, (617) 495-3807
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Kimberly Theidon, Associate Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Latin American Studies, Andean Region; gender and sexuality; medical anthropology; violence, human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation; drug policy.
ktheidon [at] wjh.harvard.edu | Latin America Working Group | website
(617) 495-3805, William James Hall 406
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Jason Ur, Associate Professor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus.
jasonur [at] fas.harvard.edu| website
(617) 495-8920, Peabody Museum 57F
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Gary Urton, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: South American archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology; ancient accounting and record keeping; state formation; Inka civilization; Peru, Bolivia, Chile.
gurton [at] fas.harvard.edu | Khipu Database Project | website
(617) 496-8534, Peabody Museum 59 A-C
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James Watson, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain.
jwatson [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-1415, William James Hall 452
On Leave Fall 2009
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Nur Yalman, Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Emeritus
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies: contemporary social theory and theorists; anthropology of religion with special reference to Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism; social and political conditions in South Asia and the Middle East.
yalman [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-2435, Peabody Museum 24B
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