Rubie Watson
William James Hall 452
Tel
617-496-3123
Fax 617-495-7535
E-mail rwatson@fas.harvard.edu

Curator of Comparative Ethnology for the Peabody Museum
Senior Lecturer for the Department of Anthropology

B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Ph.D. Anthropology, London School of Economics, 1982

Dr. Watson is currently Curator of Comparative Ethnology in Harvard’s Peabody Museum and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, and she divides her time between the museum and the department.

She was Director of the Peabody Museum from 1997 to 2004, the first woman and the first social anthropologist to hold that position.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Watson taught at the University of Pittsburgh were she was Associate Professor of Anthropology.