ASPR Directory
27 results found.
John Barry
Research interests: primate evolution, paleontology, geology, paleoenvironments, Miocene hominoids, Parkistan, and Southwestern America.jcbarry@fas.harvard.edu
Terence Capellini
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…
Sarah Hlubik
Sarah Hlubik is a postdoctoral researcher studying when human ancestors began using fire. Her research is focused on the Koobi Fora region of northern Kenya, where she works on the oldest archaeological site with evidence for human fire use. Her current project is…sarah_hlubik@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
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.eduAnn 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
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.eduDan 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
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
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
ASPR Alumni
4 results found.
David Pilbeam
Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology, Africa, and Asia.pilbeam@fas.harvard.edu
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
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…
Recipients of ASPR Support
The ASPR is pleased to support Harvard University students conducting research in old world prehistory.
Aura Allshouse
Alex Kim (2023)
Melina Seabrook (2023-24)