Classes

ANTHRO 3410 - Teaching Fellowship

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

N/A
By Arrangement

For students engaged in teaching as a Teaching Fellow. Student should register for four credits per section.

Not counted towards PhD requirements.

ANTHRO 3410 - Teaching Fellowship

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2023

N/A
By Arrangement

For students engaged in teaching as a Teaching Fellow. Student should register for four credits per section.

Not counted towards PhD requirements.

ANTHRO 3500 - Direction of Doctoral Dissertations

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Fall

Offered:

2023

Department Faculty
By Arrangement

Individual work in preparation for the doctoral dissertation.

Consult the appropriate member of the Department.
Limited to candidates for the PhD in Anthropology who are in residence and who are in good standing in the Graduate School.

ANTHRO 3500 - Direction of Doctoral Dissertations

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2023

Department Faculty
By Arrangement

Individual work in preparation for the doctoral dissertation.

Consult the appropriate member of the Department.
Limited to candidates for the PhD in Anthropology who are in residence and who are in good standing in the Graduate School.

ANTHRO 3626 - Research Design/Proposal Writing

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2023

Canvas Site

Prof. Gabriella Coleman
W 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM

This course is part seminar, part practicum. Its purpose is to help students conceptualize and design a research project, to craft effective research and grant proposals, and to prepare for ethnographic and archival work. The first and longest part of the course will focus on formulating a researchable project, in all its various elements; how to write a statement of problem, to frame arguments/theses, to situate work in the appropriate anthropological literature/s, to develop a methodological approach, and...

FYSEMR 30G - Digging Egypt's Past: Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2023

Course Site

Prof. Peter Der Manuelian
Tues. 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Emerson Hall 318

Mysterious pyramids, colossal royal statues, tiny gold jewelry, decorated tomb chapels, temples, settlements, fortresses, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. This was the excavation legacy in Egypt and Sudan of the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Expedition. Led by Egyptologist George Reisner (1867–1942; new biography just published), this expedition revolutionized archaeological method, and put Harvard Egyptology on the world stage, all during British control of the Egyptian...

GENED 1044 - Deep History

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2021

Course Site

Profs. Matthew Liebmann and Daniel Smail
Tues. and Thurs. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Harvard Hall 202

When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is straightforward: six thousand years ago. So what about the tens of thousands of years of human existence described by archaeology and related disciplines? Is that history too?

GENED 1105 - Can We Know Our Past?

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2021

Course Site

Profs. Rowan Flad and Jason Ur
Mon. and Wed. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
CGIS South S010

What happened in the past? How do you know? Even though today we take great pains to document every major event that occurs, more than 99% of human history is not written down. How, then, can we determine with any certainty what people did, let alone thought about, hundreds, thousands, and even millions of years ago?

GENED 1091 - Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2021

Course Site

Prof. Michael Puett
Mon. and Wed. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
CGIS South S010

What is the best way to live a fuller and more ethical life? Concretely what should we do to begin to live in a more flourishing and inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical debates in China. The answers that classical Chinese thinkers developed in response to these questions are among the most powerful in human history. Regardless of whether one agrees with them...

GENED 1093 - Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2021

Course Site

Profs. Arthur Kleinman, Salmaan Keshavjee, Anne Becker, and Paul Farmer
Tues. and Thurs. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Science Center Hall B

If you are sick or hurt, whether you live or die depends not only on biological factors, but social ones: who you are and where you are, what sort of healthcare system is available to help you survive, and what kind of care is available to help you recover, if society believes you deserve it.

GENED 1126 - Race and Caste

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Canvas Site

Prof. Ajantha Subramanian
Tues. and Thurs. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Sever Hall 102

Click here for a video preview of this course.

Race and caste are two of the most enduring forms of social stratification. While their histories date well before the advent of political democracy, they have taken on new forms in the context of democratic social transformation and capitalist development. In this course, we will grapple with the meanings, uses, and politics of race and caste historically and in the contemporary moment.... Read more about GENED 1126 - Race and Caste

GENED 1177 - Language in Culture and Society

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2022

Course Site

How are language, culture, and society related?

The relation is complicated rather than simple, problematic rather than straightforward. To begin to explore this question, we discuss key theoretical issues and illuminating examples that begin to sketch out an approach to linking language, culture, and society. Specifically, we consider the following problems:

How is language use a kind of social action? (It is something we do; it has social effects.)
How does language organize and provide access to shared concepts and beliefs...

ANTHRO 97X - Sophomore Tutorial in Archaeology

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

W 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

This course will focus on archaeological thinking, the cognitive skeleton of the discipline of archaeology, the principles and the logic that are the foundation of all archaeological conclusions and research. Central to this is an understanding of research design, archaeological theory and interpretation, culture and material culture; as well as an understanding of how to examine and construct an archaeological argument.

ANTHRO 97Z - Sophomore Tutorial: Anthropology as Social Theory and the Social Theory of Anthropology

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

Canvas Site

Prof. Gabriella Coleman
M W 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Anthropology 97z is a course about what social theory is, how to read it and how it relates to the discipline of anthropology. The course encourages students to think expansively about the sources and boundaries of theory, guiding them through several approaches to theorizing social life.

Required of all Social Anthropology concentrators. Weekly 2-hour sections to be arranged.

ANTHRO 98B - Junior Tutorial for Thesis Writers in Anthropology

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

Canvas Site

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This individual tutorial is for anthropology students intending to write a senior thesis, and is normally undertaken with an advanced graduate student during the second term of junior year. Students will have weekly meetings with the project advisor for the purposes of developing the appropriate background research on theoretical, thematic, regional, and methodological literature relevant to their thesis topic, and fully refining their summer research proposal. The tutorials final paper will be comprised of a research proposal representing...

ANTHRO 99B - Thesis Tutorial in Anthropology

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

Canvas Site

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This is a full year research and writing seminar limited to senior honors candidates. The course is intended to provide students with practical guidance and advice during the thesis writing process through structured assignments and peer feedback on work-in-progress. It is intended to supplement not replace faculty thesis advising (with the requirement of consulting regularly with the advisor built into the assignments) and, most importantly, allow students to share their work and experiences with other thesis writers in a collegial and...

ANTHRO 1038 - Game of Stones: The Archaeology of Europe from Handaxes to Stonehenge

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

Canvas Site

Prof. Amy Clark

Buried beneath modern cities, Roman amphitheaters, and Medieval churches lie subtle traces of Europes earlier occupants: campsites littered stone tools and animal bones, human bodies preserved in bogs and frozen in ice, and cave walls decorated with extinct animals.

ANTHRO 1058/2058 - Bias in Archaeology

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Canvas Site

Prof. Rowan Flad and Jess Beck
Weds. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Peabody 561

This seminar will focus broadly on bias in archaeology, covering issues of bias in authorship, citations, accessibility, popular media coverage, fieldwork, training and education, hiring and promotion and other related topics. We will also address recent research that focuses on disrupting patterns of bias in some of these areas. Students will engage in original research or synthesize research topics in one or more of these areas for their final project.... Read more about ANTHRO 1058/2058 - Bias in Archaeology

ANTHRO 1131 - Archaeology of Harvard Yard II: Laboratory Methods and Analysis

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2024

Canvas Site

Profs. Diana Loren and Patricia Capone
Thurs. 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Open to students who participated in the fall term investigations in Harvard Yard, this course focuses on the detailed analysis of the materials recovered in the excavations, within the context of archival and comparative archaeological and historical research.

ANTHRO 1435 - Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard’s History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2023

Canvas Site

Profs. Diana Loren
Mon. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Harvard’s museum collections have often been used to interrogate the world outside of “us”: peoples, events, places, and things. This course reverses that gaze and asks what the collections and the processes of collecting reveal about the history of Harvard and its institutional identity as “the” place of learning.... Read more about ANTHRO 1435 - Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard’s History

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