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Asad Ahmed
- Associate 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.
Contact:
aaahmed [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-5690 | William James Hall 314
On leave AY2012-13
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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.
Contact:
obaryos [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-2252 | Peabody Museum 57 D
On leave AY2012-13
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Anya Bernstein
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Russia, Eurasia, religion, transnational processes, indigeneity, body politics, secularism, sovereignty, media, materiality, visual culture, anthropology of death and life extension.
Contact:
abernstein [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-4987 | William James Hall 336
On leave AY2012-13
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Theodore C. Bestor
- Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology
- Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Markets, globalization, urban studies in anthropology, economic institutions and exchange; food systems and cultures, space, place and identity; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic.
Contact:
bestor [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-4454 | William James Hall 420
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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.
Contact:
david_carrasco [at] harvard.edu | website
(617) 384-9499 | Peabody Museum 57A
(617) 384-7953 | Divinity Hall 304
On leave Spring 2013
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Lucien Castaing Taylor
- Professor of Visual Arts and of Anthropology
- Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
- Director, Film Study Center
- 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.
Contact:
lgtaylor [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495- 9706 | Sever Hall M-05
On leave AY2012-13
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Steve Caton
- Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
- Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)
- Social Anthropology Program Head Tutor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Linguistics, cultural studies, gender, Yemeni poetics and politics, politics of
water sustainability.
Contact:
caton [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-1886 | William James Hall 318
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Jean Comaroff
- Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology
- Oppenheimer Research Fellow
Research and Teaching Interests:
Theory and method; embodiment and commodification; ritual and religion; medicine; politics and ideology; crime and forensics; colonialism; Southern Africa.
Contact:
jeancomaroff [at] fas.harvard.edu | website | African and African American Studies
257 Barker Center,
Quincy Street
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John Comaroff
- Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology
- Oppenheimer Research Fellow
Research and Teaching Interests:
The anthropology of crime and policing; the political anthropology of the colonial and postcolonial state; contemporary African legal systems; the historical anthropology of colonialism; the anthropology of modernity; Southern Africa.
Contact:
jcomaroff [at] fas.harvard.edu | website | African and African American Studies
260 Barker Center,
Quincy Street
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Peter Der Manuelian
- Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary
architecture, the iconographic nature of Egyptian language and culture in
general; the Giza Necropolis (www.gizapyramids.org), and the application of
digital technologies to research and teaching.
Contact:
peter_manuelian [at] harvard.edu | website | Giza3D
(617) 496-8558 | FAS Semitic Museum, Room 208
Semitic Museum,
6 Divinity Ave.,
Cambridge MA 02138
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William L. Fash
- Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Cultural process, settlement pattern analysis,symbolism and archaeological conservation, Mesoamerica.
Contact:
wfash [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-0433 | Peabody Museum 24-2
On leave AY2012-13
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Rowan Flad
- Professor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistance of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Specialization; Zooarchaeology.
Contact:
rflad [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-1966 | Peabody Museum 57G
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Byron Good
- Professor
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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.
Contact:
byron_good [at] hms.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3904 | William James Hall 340
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Susan Greenhalgh
- Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine;
The Politics of Reproduction/ Population/ Life Itself;
Gender Studies; Modernity and Globalization;
Anthropology of the State, Governance, and Public Policy;
Socialism and Post-Socialism;
People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Selected interests in U.S. society.
Contact:
greenhalgh [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-7826 | William James Hall 310
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Nicholas Harkness
- Assistant Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Linguistic anthropology, semiotics,
voice, quality, Christianity, South Korea.
Contact:
harkness [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3807 | William James Hall 410
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Michael Herzfeld
- Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history; Europe (especially Greece & Italy), and Thailand.
Contact:
herzfeld [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-5190 | William James Hall 380
On leave Spring 2013
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Arthur Kleinman
- Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology
- Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine
- Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Director of the Asia Center
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Medical Anthropology: social experience, suffering, social and mental health; China, Taiwan, North America.
Contact:
kleinman [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3846 | William James Hall 330
On leave Spring 2013
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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.
Contact:
karlovsk [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-8162 | Peabody Museum 57J
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Matthew Liebmann
- Associate Professor
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA.
Contact:
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.
Contact:
meadow [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
Zooarchaeology Laboratory
(617) 495-3354 | Peabody Museum 35B
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Jeffrey Quilter
- Senior Lecturer
- 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.
Contact:
quilter [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
Magdalena de Cao Viejo Project
(617) 496-9655 | Peabody Museum 37
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Laurence Ralph
- Assistant Professor
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Joint appointment with African and African American Studies
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Gang Formations; Urban Anthropology; Disability; Medical Anthropology; Masculinity; Race; Theories of Violence; Popular Culture and Hip Hop.
Contact:
lralph [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St
On leave AY2012-13
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Mary Steedly
- Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Historical ethnography; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; Indonesia; southern U.S. and military culture.
Contact:
msteed [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
(617) 495-3730 | William James Hall 440
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Ajantha Subramanian
- Professor
- Social Anthropology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Political Economy; Colonialism and Postcoloniality; Political Ecology; Space; Social Movements; Citizenship; South Asia; South Asian diaspora.
Contact:
subram [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
(617) 496-9647 | William James Hall 348
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Kimberly Theidon
- John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
- 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.
Contact:
ktheidon [at] wjh.harvard.edu | website
Latin America Working Group
(617) 495-3805 | William James Hall 406
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Jason Ur
- John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus.
Contact:
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
- Department Chair
- Archaeology Program
Research and Teaching Interests:
South American archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology; ancient accounting and record keeping; state formation; Inka civilization; Peru, Bolivia, Chile.
Teaching and Research:
gurton [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
Khipu Database Project
(617) 496-8534 | Peabody Museum 59 A-C
For business regarding departmental programs, inquiries, etc... :
anthrochair [at] fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-5820 | Peabody Museum 30A
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