Faculty, Lecturers & College Fellows
THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Daniel E. Lieberman
HEB Department Chair, Professor of HEB, Affiliate in the Dept. OEB
Peabody Museum 53H | (617) 495-5479
Email | Website | Skletal Bio Lab
Research interests: How and why the human body looks the way it does (functional, developmental and evolutionary anatomy of the skull and postcranium).
Richard W. Wrangham
Director of HEB Graduate Studies, Ruth B. Moore Prof. of Biological Anthropology,
Harvard College Professor
Peabody Museum 50B | 617 495-5948
Email | Website
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, human ecology, evolutionary biology
David R. Pilbeam
Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution
Head Tutor (Undergraduate Program)
Peabody Museum 51B | (617) 495-4736
Email | Website
Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology; Africa and Asia .
Peter T. Ellison
John Cowles Professor of Anthropology
HEB Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2012)
Peabody Museum 51F | 617 495-4213
Email | Website
Research Interests: reproductive ecology, endrocrinology, human evolutionary biology.Back to Top
Katherine Hinde
Assistant Professor
Peabody Museum 53B | (617) 496-4551
email | website
Research Interests: "Parent-offspring conflict, sex-biased investment, life history tradeoffs, effects of maternal and environmental conditions on milk production (composition and yield) and the relationship between mother's milk and infant characteristics in macaques. Future research directions include exploring the genetic and epigenetic determinants of milk production and the consequences for infant growth, metabolism, and behavior. Back to Top
Karen Kramer
Associate Professor
Peabody Museum 26 | (617) 495-1870
Email| website
Research interests: life history, biodemography, juvenility, cooperative breeding, intergenerational
transfers, demographic and economic transitions, hunter-gatherers and small-scale agriculturalists.
Charles Nunn
Associate Professor
Peabody Museum 53D | (617) 495-4710
Research interests: infectious disease and primate ecology, bioinformatics and evolutionary biology, conservation of biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases .
Maryellen Ruvolo
Professor, Affiliate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Peabody Museum 54A | (617) 495-3576 | Email | website
Research interests:human molecular adaptations, detection of selection in primates, evolution of genes related to pregnancy/reproduction, evolution of gene for human athletic abilities, natural selection on networks and gene pathways.
Tanya M. Smith
Assistant Professor
Peabody Museum 47 | (617) 496-8259
Email | website
Research Interests: dental development and three-dimensional tooth structure in fossil and living apes and humans.
Noreen Tuross
Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology
Peabody Museum 58 D
Email | Website
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.
Faculty Affiliates
David Reich
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department Advisors
Carole Hooven
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies & Lecturer
Peabody Museum 52F
Email
Research Interests: Behavioral Endocrinology and evolution of sex differences in humans (physiology, behavior and cognition).
Zarin Machanda
HEB Associate Concentration Advisor & Lecturer
Peabody Museum
Email
Research interests: the evolution of male-female relationships in
primates with a specific focus on chimpanzees living in western Uganda.
Her work focuses on male-female association patterns, friendships
between males and females and inter-sexual feeding competition. Most
recently she has started collaborations to look at coalitions and
mutual grooming in chimpanzees
Lecturers
John C. Barry
Lecturer, Director, Paleoanthropology Lab
Peabody Museum 40C | (617) 495-3720
Email
Research interests: primate evolution, paleontology, geology, paleoenvironments, Miocene hominoids; Parkistan, Southwestern America.
Judith Flynn Chapman
Lecturer, Allston Burr Resident Dean, Quincy
House.
Peabody Museum 55F | (617) 495-1679
Email
Research interests: Reproductive ecology.
Brenda Frazier
College Fellow
Email | Skeletal Biology Lab
Research interests: Cranial development, evolution and allometry
Russell Greaves
Lecturer
Vanserg Rm. 103 | (617) 495-2288
Email
Research interests: human behavioral ecology, subsistence, hunters and gatherers, technological adaptations, ethnoarchaeology, South America.
Susan F. Lipson
Lecturer, Researcher, Reproductive Ecology Lab
Peabody Museum 56D | (617) 496-1038
Email
Research interests: human behavioral and reproductive endocrinology, reproductive ecology.
Amanda Lobell
Lecturer
Peabody Museum 55A | 617-495-8323 |
Email | website
Research interests: primate molecular evolution, evolution of the reproductive system, natural selection on primate and human genomes.
David Rand
Lecturer, Harvard University Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
1 Brattle Sq. Rm. 637 | 607-592-0218
Email | Website
Research Interests: evolution of human social behavior, cooperation, evolutionary game theory, experimental economics.
Meredith Reiches
College Fellow
Email
Research interests: The Gambia; Human reproductive ecology and endocrinology; ecological variation in puberty, growth and reproductive function in adolescence.
Preceptors
Kristi Lewton
Preceptor in Evolutionary Anatomy and Physiology
Peabody Museum 56A-1 | (617) 495-5246
Email | Website | Skletal Bio Lab
Research Interests: Functional morphology of primate locomotor systems, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolution of bipedality.
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