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Margaret Andrews

margaretandrews@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Classics

Research Interests: Mediterranean archaeology, especially Roman; archaeological theory and methods; urbanism and urban transformation; urban social geography; city of Rome; ancient residential spaces; the longue durée; early Christianity; women and gender

Suzanne Preston Blier

blier@fas.harvard.edu

Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies

Suzanne Preston Blier (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and...

Susanne Ebbinghaus

susanne_ebbinghaus@harvard.edu

George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Susanne Ebbinghaus is George MA Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museums . Her research focuses on cultural exchanges between Greece and the Near East in the first millennium BCE. Current projects include a study...

William L. Fash

wfash@fas.harvard.edu

Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology

William Fash worked on archaeological digs in Arizona and in Central Mexico while obtaining his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois (1976). In his first year in graduate school at Harvard University he joined Gordon R. Willey’s...

Rowan Flad

rflad@fas.harvard.edu

John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology

Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)

Rowan Flad's research focuses on the emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China. He has conducted excavations at a salt production site in the eastern Sichuan Basin, a regional survey in the...

Paul J. Kosmin

pjkosmin@fas.harvard.edu

Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History

Research Interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and...

Daniel E Lieberman

danlieb@fas.harvard.edu

Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences

The basic question Dr. Lienerman asks — why does the human body look and function the way it does— requires an evolutionary perspective because nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and...

Matt Liebmann

liebmann@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Archaeology (Anthropology)

/Matthew Liebmann is a Professor of Archaeology and the Archaeology Program Director in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. His research interests include the archaeology of the Southwest U.S., historical archaeology and historical...

Diana Loren

dloren@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Curator Peabody Museum; Lecturer in Anthropology

Region(s): North America Time Period(s): 17th century; 18th century; 19th century Theme(s): North American Archaeology; Colonialism in the Americas; New England and Southeast US; Health, Dress and Adornment

Michael McCormick

sohpchair@fas.harvard.edu

Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History

Chair, Science of the Human Past

Born on the banks of the Erie Canal, McCormick received his Ph.D. from the Université catholique de Louvain in 1979. He served on the faculty of the Department of History of the Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to 1991, and was Research Associate at...

Stephen A. Mitchell

samitch@fas.harvard.edu

Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore

(On leave Sprin 2024) With a joint appointment at Harvard in Scandinavian and in Folklore and Mythology, my research and teaching naturally address a wide variety of genres and periods of Nordic culture and literature, and issues in folklore, centering on...

Jane Pickering

jpickering@hmsc.harvard.edu

William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director, Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Jane Pickering was appointed as the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in July 2019. After a decade working in museums in the U.K., she moved to the U.S. to be Director of the MIT Museum in 1998...