Faculty, Lecturers & College Fellows
THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Daniel E. Lieberman
Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences,
Affiliate in the Dept. of OEB
On sabbatical, academic year 2012-2013
Peabody Museum 53H | (617) 495-5479
Email: danlieb@fas.harvard.edu | 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).
David R. Pilbeam
Department Chair 2012-2013, Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution
Head Tutor (Undergraduate Program
Peabody Museum 51B | (617) 495-4736
Email: pilbeam@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology; Africa and Asia .
Richard W. Wrangham
Ruth B. Moore Prof. of Biological Anthropology
Peabody Museum 50B | 617 495-5948
Email: wrangham@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, human ecology, evolutionary biology
Terence Capellini
Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2013
Email: tcapellini@fas.harvard.edu | Website (Coming Soon)
Research interests: 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. In the lab, we use a variety of tools spanning developmental biology, genetics, genomics, comparative biology, and primate/human evolution. Currently, we are focusing on two specific areas: 1) the discovery of the genetic alterations that determine the unique human post-cranial skeleton; and 2) the elucidation of the genetic and developmental architecture underlying the diversity of joint types in primates.
James Chisholm
Visiting Professor, academic year 2012-2013
Peabody Museum 56G | 617-495-1870
Email: jim.chisholm@uwa.edu.au
Research Interests: I use the principles of evolutionary ecology, life history theory, sexual selection theory, and parental investment theory to investigate the role of early psychosocial stress and attachment history in the evolution and development of theory of mind and the capacity for culture and the development of alternative reproductive strategies and their implications for health and health inequalities.Back to Top
Peter T. Ellison
John Cowles Professor of Anthropology
On sabbatical, academic year 2012-2013
Peabody Museum 51F | 617 495-4213
Email: pellison@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Research Interests: reproductive ecology, endrocrinology, human evolutionary biology.Back to Top
Katherine Hinde
Assistant Professor
Peabody Museum 53B | (617) 496-4551
Email: khinde@fas.harvard.edu | 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
Visiting Professor 2012 - 2013
Peabody Museum 26 | (617) 495-1870
Email: karen.kramer@anthro.utah.edu | 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
On sabbatical spring term 2013
Peabody Museum 53D | (617) 495-4710
Email: nunn@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research interests: infectious disease and primate ecology, bioinformatics and evolutionary biology, conservation of biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases .
Maryellen Ruvolo
Director of Graduate Studies, 2012-2013
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: ruvolo@fas.harvard.edu | 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
Associate Professor
Peabody Museum 47 | (617) 496-8259
Email: tsmith@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Evolution of human growth and development, paleoanthropology, primate dental evolution and development.
Noreen Tuross
Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology
Peabody Museum 58 D
Email: tuross@fas.harvard.edu | 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: hooven@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Behavioral Endocrinology and evolution of sex differences in humans (physiology, behavior and cognition).
Katherine Duncan-Zink
HEB Associate Concentration Advisor
Email: kzink@oeb.harvard.edu | Website
Research interests: Skeletal and dental development; Functional
integration; Functional morphology; Masticatory biomechanics.
Lecturers
Meir M. Barak
Lecturer, Spring 2013
Email: mbarak@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Skeletal Biology
Research Interests: trabecular bone tissue and the relation between trabecular architecture and orientation, and the locomotion behavior (direction of loading) of living primates and ancient hominins.
John C. Barry
Lecturer, Director, Paleoanthropology Lab
Peabody Museum 40C | (617) 495-3720
Email: jcbarry@fas.harvard.edu
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: jflynnchapman@gmail.com
Research interests: Reproductive ecology.
Brenda Frazier
College Fellow
Email: bfrazier@fas.harvard.edu | Skeletal Biology Lab
Research interests: Cranial development, evolution and allometry
Susan F. Lipson
Lecturer, Researcher, Reproductive Ecology Lab
Peabody Museum 56D | (617) 496-1038
Email: sflipson@fas.harvard.edu
Research interests: human behavioral and reproductive endocrinology, reproductive ecology.
Stephanie Meredith
Lecturer
Peabody Museum 50E | 617-496-4262
Email: stephaniemeredith@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Meredith Reiches
College Fellow
Email: mreiches@fas.harvard.edu
Research interests: The Gambia; Human reproductive ecology and endocrinology; ecological variation in puberty, growth and reproductive function in adolescence.
Linda Reynard
Lecturer, Research Associate, Biogeochemistry Lab
Peabody Museum 58H | 617-495-8053
Email: lreynard@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Research interests: The applications of stable isotope ratio measurements for bioarchaeology and low-temperature geochemistry.
Anna Warrener
Lecturer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Skeletal Biology Lab
Peabody Museum 53G | 617-496-8991
Email: awarrener@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Tory Wobber
Lecturer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology
Email: wobber@fas.harvard.edu | Website
Research interests: Central and East Africa; The evolution of cognition;
domestication, temperament and ontogeny.
Preceptors
Kristi Lewton
Preceptor in Evolutionary Anatomy and Physiology
Peabody Museum 56A-1 | (617) 495-5246
Email: klewton@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Skletal Bio Lab
Research Interests: Functional morphology of primate locomotor systems, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolution of bipedality.
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