Rate My Professor Christopher Kuzawa

Christopher Kuzawa is Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a position he assumed in January 2025. He previously held the John D. MacArthur Professorship in Anthropology at Northwestern University from 2013, along with appointments as Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and co-director of the Health Inequality Network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group. Kuzawa earned his PhD in Anthropology and MSPH in Epidemiology from Emory University in 2002 and 2001, respectively, and a BA in Anthropology summa cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. As a biological anthropologist, his research examines developmental biology, human evolution, and health, focusing on developmental influences on adult biology, psychobiology of human fatherhood, non-genetic biological inheritance, energetics and evolution of the human brain, and the history and misuse of race concepts. Through long-term analysis of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey in the Philippines, involving over 3,000 pregnant mothers since 1983 and their descendants, he has demonstrated how early environments affect growth, health, endocrinology, immunity, reproduction, telomere length, and epigenetic aging.