Chris Kuzawa

Christopher Kuzawa is Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research explores developmental influences on adult biology and health, the psychobiology of human fatherhood, non-genetic forms of biological inheritance, and the energetics and evolution of the human brain. Kuzawa's work also addresses the history and misuse of race concepts in anthropology and beyond. He cares and thinks deeply about the societal implications of research in human biology, and am committed to engaging beyond anthropology and beyond academia. For example, he recently testified to the State of California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, and published a 2023 Op Ed in the Los Angeles Times highlighting how health disparities in the U.S. further justify reparations to Black Americans. Kuzawa received his PhD in Anthropology and MSPH in Epidemiology from Emory University. He is co-director of the Health Inequality Network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.