# Dr. Christopher W. Kuzawa Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology Co-Director of Graduate Studies ![Professor Kuzawa headshot photo of him smiling wearing a blue checkered shirt sporting short hair](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2024-10/Kuzawa%20-%20headshot.jpg?itok=zbUwW6c-) location\_on Peabody Museum 53C 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [(617) 495-4080]() email I am a biological anthropologist interested in developmental biology, human evolution, and health. My group’s 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. Our work also addresses the history and misuse of race concepts in anthropology and beyond. I care and think deeply about the societal implications of research in human biology, and am committed to engaging beyond anthropology and beyond academia. For example, I recently [testified](https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings/012022) 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](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-12/california-reparations-task-force-wealth-gap-health) highlighting how health disparities in the U.S. further justify reparations to Black Americans. I received my PhD in Anthropology and MSPH in Epidemiology from Emory University. I am currently John D. MacArthur Professor of Anthropology and [Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Policy Research](https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/who-we-are/faculty-experts/kuzawa.html) at Northwestern University, [co-director of the Health Inequality Network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group](https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/people/christopher-kuzawa), and an elected member of the US [National Academy of Sciences](http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20041800.html) and the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](https://www.amacad.org/person/christopher-w-kuzawa). - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) - ## Research [Evolution & Anatomy](/research/evolution-anatomy) [Physiology](/research/physiology-0)