ASPR Directory

John Barry

Research interests: primate evolution, paleontology, geology, paleoenvironments, Miocene hominoids, Parkistan, and Southwestern America.jcbarry@fas.harvard.edu

My lab’s research is on identifying the DNA changes underlying human and non-human primate biological adaptations. In the process of identifying these changes, we seek to reveal basic developmental and genetic mechanisms governing biological trait formation and inheritance as well as their influence on disease risk…tcapellini@fas.harvard.edu

Amy Clark

Research interests: Hunter-gatherer archaeology, lithic technology, spatial analysis, Neanderthals, archaic and modern humans, Paleolithic Europe, Middle and Late Stone Age in North Africa.amy_clark@fas.harvard.edu

Kathleen Coleman

Research interests: Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; history and culture of the early Empire; arena spectacles; Roman punishment; reception of the Classics by the twentieth-century South African poet, Douglas Livingstone.kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu

Abigail Desmond

I am an archaeologist and a College Fellow in the Human Evolutionary Biology (HEB) Department at Harvard University. I teach courses related to human evolution, with a focus on technology and cognition. I received my DPhil and MPhil in Paleolithic Archaeology from The University of Oxford…abigaildesmond@fas.harvard.edu

Scott Edwards

Research interests: Evolution, Behavior, Biodiversity & Systematics, Mathematical & Computational Biology, Neuroethology & Behavioral Ecology, Population & Evolutionary Genetics.sedwards@fas.harvard.edu

Rowan Flad

Research interests: Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Interregional Interaction and the Proto-Silk-Road; Technology and Technological Change; Specialization; Zooarchaeology; Emergence and development of complex society in the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China.rflad@fas.harvard.edu

Lawrence Flynn

My research interests focus on the paleobiology of past ecosystems, especially the Neogene of South Asia and China. I specialize in small mammals which, collectively, account for half of modern community diversity. For the fossil record, small mammals are dominantly Rodentia (other orders being less diverse and under-represented). The terrestrial sequence…ljflynn@fas.harvard.edu

Daniel Green

Daniel’s research develops tools by which teeth can be turned into diagnostic indicators of environment, climate, and childhood exposure to pollutants in contemporary and ancient populations. Additionally, he has had the opportunity to conduct field research with the National Museums of Kenya, the Turkana Basin Institute, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project…

Pablo Gutiérrez de León

Pablo Gutiérrez de León studies the archaeology of nomadic pastoralism in the northeastern Horn of Africa, focusing on Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, and Somalia. His work examines pastoral societies from the beginnings of animal husbandry to the present day, integrating themes such as trade in the Indian Ocean, Islamization, European colonization…pablogutierrezdeleon@fas.harvard.edu

Jingbo Li

Dr. Jingbo Li studies foodways and the development of complex societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age China, with a particular focus on how diet, alcohol production, and ritual practices shaped political authority and cultural identity. Trained in archaeobotany, residue chemistry, and isotopic analysis, she reconstructs…jingboli@fas.harvard.edu

Daniel Lieberman

I study and teach how and why the human body looks and functions the way it does. I have long been fascinated by the evolution of the human head but my main focus is on the evolution of human physical activity. I am especially interested in how evolutionary approaches to activities such as walking and running…danlieb@fas.harvard.edu

Matthew Liebmann

Research interests: North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA.liebmann@fas.harvard.edu

Margot Louail

Margot Louail studies the past ecologies of African suids and primates in the Pliocene and Pleistocene to explore the role of seasonality and feeding habits on their evolution. Her research mostly involves dental wear analysis and stable isotopes. She received her PhD from…margotlouail@g.harvard.edu

Peter Der Manuelian

Research interests: Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary architecture, the iconographic nature of Egyptian language and culture in general; the Giza Necropolis, and the application of digital technologies to research and teaching.peter_manuelian@harvard.edu

Richard Meadow

Research interests: Archaeology of South and West Asia; the Indus Civilization; Zooarchaeology; domestication of animals; origins of agriculture.meadow@fas.harvard.edu

Shayla Monroe

Research interests: African pastoralism, zooarchaeology of the Nile Valley, political ecology of the Sahara and the Sahel, faunal analysis, the effects of climate change on intergroup cooperation and conflict. shaylamonroe@fas.harvard.edu

Michèle Morgan

As a paleoecologist, I use various analytical tools to study local climatic conditions, foraging strategies, and life history parameters of fossil and extant taxa including stable isotope, dental microwear and body size analyses. I also study taphonomic processes relating to fossil locality formation and fossil preservation…memorgan@fas.harvard.edu

Elizabeth Nist

Lizzy is the Lab Manager for Harvard’s Anthropology Department, where she manages several lab spaces, including the Warinner Ancient BioMolecules Laboratory, the Anthropology Multiuser Laboratory, and the Microscope Laboratory…enist@fas.harvard.edu

Ann Pearson

Ann Pearson is the Murray and Martha Ross Professor of Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on applications of analytical chemistry, isotope geochemistry, and molecular biology to biochemical oceanography and Earth history…apearson@eps.harvard.edu

Jane Pickering

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. At MIT she…jpickering@fas.harvard.edu

Dan Smail

Daniel Lord Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, where he works on the history and anthropology of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 and on deep human history. In medieval European history, his work has explored the legal, social, and cultural…smail@fas.harvard.edu

Noreen Tuross

Research interests: Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions; ancient DNA and DNA damage; human impacts on the land; paleodiet, migration, and seasonality.

Kevin Uno

Kevin Uno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a paleoecologist whose primary research focus is on exploring the role of climate and environmental change on mammalian and human evolution. To do this, he uses stable isotope and organic geochemical methods to reconstruct climate…kevinuno@fas.harvard.edu

Jason Ur

Jason Ur specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing, particularly the use of declassified US intelligence imagery. His research has focused on the impacts of early urban communities on their landscapes using field survey and satellite remote sensing techniques…jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

Christina Warinner

Christina (Tina) Warinner is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. She is also a group leader in the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropologywarinner@fas.harvard.edu

Jesse Wolfhagen

Research interests: animal domestication, pastoralism, zooarchaeological methods, human-animal interactions, archaeology of southwest Asia, statistics in archaeologyjwolfhagen@fas.harvard.edu

Kayla Worthey

Kayla Worthey is an archaeologist and biogeochemist studying the Late Pleistocene terrestrial environments of North Africa and their impacts on humans during the Middle and Later Stone Ages. She principally uses stable isotope-based proxies from organic biomarkers and faunal remains sampled from archaeological sites…kbworthey@fas.harvard.edu

Richard Wrangham

Richard Wrangham (PhD, Cambridge University, 1975) is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired) at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. He is best known for his work on…wrangham@fas.harvard.edu

Chengrui Zhang

Chengrui Zhang earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2024 (Dissertation: Subsistence and Ritual: Animal Economy in the Bronze Age Qaidam Basin in Northwestern China) and then moved on to a postdoctoral position, in which he focuses on…chengrui_zhang@g.harvard.edu

ASPR Alumni

Alfred Tozzer

Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) was a pioneering American anthropologist and archaeologist, and he was listed as a member of the ASPR during its earliest years. A Harvard graduate, he taught there for most of his career and became the first Harvard professor of anthropology. Tozzer conducted extensive fieldwork in Mexico and Central America, producing foundational

Ali Yawar

I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab, and lecturer in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. I got my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Biomechanics and Control Lab at Yale University. I work on the biomechanics of the human foot…aliyawar@g.harvard.edu

Bruce Howe

Bruce Howe was affiliated with Harvard University and worked closely with the American School of Prehistoric Research (ASPR) in the mid-20th century. In several bulletins he is listed as part of the ASPR–Tufts expedition staff, and he often took part in both fieldwork and publication efforts. In 1949, He participated in the excavations of caves

Carleton Stevens Coon

Carleton Stevens Coon (1904–1981) was a Harvard-trained anthropologist who went on to a long academic career and eventually wound up at the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1930s and early 1940s, he was closely involved with the American School of Prehistoric Research (ASPR), serving as one of its principal field archaeologists in North Africa. For

Charles E. Stearns

Charles E. Stearns was a geologist at Tufts University who collaborated with the American School of Prehistoric Research in North Africa during the late 1940s. He participated in the 1949 excavations at Tipasa and Kouali Point, Algeria, where his geological expertise was critical in correlating archaeological horizons with sea-level fluctuations and coastal geomorphology. Stearns’s mapping

Charles Peabody

One of the founders of the ASPR, Charles Peabody has an important role in the organization’s history. In the early 1920s, he worked with Henri Martin and Mr. & Mrs. MacCurdy to establish the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe. Charles Peabody had originally imagined that the school’s activities would be confined to France,

David Pilbeam

Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology, Africa, and Asia.pilbeam@fas.harvard.edu

Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Garrod played a leading role in the excavations at Mount Carmel, which were the product of a joint effort between the ASPR and the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem. She worked closely with ASPR affiliates such as Theodore McCown and Hallam Movius Jr. Twelve field seasons at Mount Carmel yielded groundbreaking archaeological discoveries

Earnest A. Hooton

Hooton (1887 – 1954) was Harvard’s first professor of physical anthropology and a leading figure in American anthropology in the early–mid 20th century. He was not primarily a field archaeologist; instead, he was deeply involved in the ASPR as a physical anthropologist, especially in the analysis of human skeletal remains. In the ASPR bulletins, Hooton’s

George Grant MacCurdy

George Grant MacCurdy was born on April 17th, 1863 in Warrensburg, Missouri, where he attended State Normal College. Little is known about his early life, but by age 26 he had risen in the ranks of his local school system and become the superintendent. He was first introduced to Boston in 1889…

Henri Hugot

Henri Hugot was a French prehistorian and specialist in Saharan archaeology who collaborated with the ASPR in the mid-20th century. A member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hugot contributed expert guidance during the analysis of North African assemblages recovered by ASPR expeditions. He offered both typological insight and broader context, drawing

Hugh O’Neill Hencken

Hugh Hencken was the editor of the ASPR bulletin series between the years of 1948 and 1971, and he also served as the Director of the School following Mr. MacCurdy’s passing. He was born in New York City in 1902, and in 1930 he received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, after earning an A.B. and

Hugo Obermaier

A leading scholar of European prehistory during his time, Huge Obermaier made important contributions to the foundation of the ASPR through his friendship with George MacCurdy. In 1912, the two visited prehistoric caves in Spain, sparking MacCurdy’s interest in old world prehistory, which later inspired him to establish the American School of Prehistoric Research. Dr.

James Harvey Gaul

James Harvey Gaul was a graduate of Harvard University and an ASPR member during the organization’s early years. He was one of five students during the ASPR’s 1934 summer term and in 1935-36, he was a member of the ASPR’s expedition to Persia…

Karl Lamberg-Karlovsky

Research 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@fas.harvard.edu

Kristine Richter

Kristine manages the departmental laboratories, trains students in wet chemistry and palaeoproteomics methods, and conducts research for Prof. Warinner. She is responsible for supporting faculty and students who conduct laboratoratory research and is aviable for providing tours of the labs and having conversations about the facilities avaiable in the department…krichter@fas.harvard.edu

Lionel Balout

Lionel Balout was a French anthropologist and archaeologist whose collaboration with the ASPR advanced the study of Stone Age populations in North Africa. Based at the Bardo Museum in Algiers, Balout was instrumental in assembling skeletal collections and facilitating laboratory studies supported by the ASPR. His surveys and publications in the 1950s provided the framework

Lloyd Cabot Briggs

Lloyd Cabot Briggs played an important administrative role in the ASPR during the mid-twentieth century as a Trustee of the ASPR. he was also closely engaged in fieldwork and publications, and he appears frequently in the reports as both a participant and occasionally co-director of projects. For example, Briggs worked closely with Hugh Hencken, Bruce

Theodore D. McCown

Theodore D. McCown was born in 1908 and graduated with an undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. In 1930, he was one of 12 student participants in the ASPR’s 10th summer term, which included extensive travel around Europe and excavation at the French site of Abri des Merveilles…

Vladimir Fewkes

Between 1927 and 1938, Vladimir Fewkes participated in ASPR summer terms as a student, and later, a director while Dr. MacCurdy was working elsewhere. He served as the director for the 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1938 terms of the summer school, and he contributed important reports to ASPR bulletins 9, 10, 11, 12, and 15.