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Archaeology—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Archaeology: Christina G. Warinner

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Archaeology

Margaret Andrews, Assistant Professor of the Classics
Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave 2025-2026)
Amy E. Clark, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (on leave spring term)
Andrew Danielson, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museums
William Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
Rowan K. Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology
Paul Kosmin, Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History (on leave spring term) (on leave spring term)
Matthew Liebmann, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Harvard College Professor (on leave 2025-2026)
Diana Loren, Senior Curator of the Peabody Museum
Peter D. Manuelian, Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Shayla Monroe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Jane Pickering, Director of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Daniel L. Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History
Adrian Staehli, Professor of Classical Archaeology
Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art

Additional Information

The Standing Committee on Archaeology is a multidisciplinary group of scholars appointed to coordinate the teaching of archaeology among Harvard’s departments.  It is designed to advance knowledge of archaeological activity, research fieldwork, and scientific techniques in the many and varied fields where archaeology is an established and desirable approach to past cultures and histories around the world.  It sponsors seminars, lectures, and conferences on archaeology in all fields, and encourages students in the several departments to join together outside their specialties for the advancement of knowledge.

For additional information, please visit https://archaeology.harvard.edu/.