#  OEB Seminar Series: Shayla L. Monroe 

 



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 **February 12, 2026** 

 03:30PM - 04:30PM EST 

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 **Northwest Building, B101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

[Shayla L. Monroe ](https://www.shaylamonroe.com/)  
Assistant Professor of Anthropology   
Department of Anthropology   
Harvard University

*Comparative Human Ecologies: The View from Zooarchaeology*

**Abstract:** Zooarchaeology is a specific branch of environmental archaeology dealing with human-animal relations in the past. While zooarchaeology’s indebtedness, and co-constitutive relationships with paleoecology and paleoclimatology are well-discussed, ongoing relationships with other approaches to ecology, including Ecology (as an academic discipline), Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Ecology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Political Ecology, Historical Ecology, De-colonial Ecology, and Feminist Ecology, require further interrogation. What does zooarchaeology have to offer, and how will zooarchaeology listen to and engage with the diverse and contrasting factions claiming a stake in shifting concepts of “ecology”? A new and ongoing course at Harvard University entitled *Comparative Human Ecologies*, was designed to examine the history and future of creative friction between these approaches. Here I summarize the experience of working through these intellectual tensions with students, assessing the real-world implications for interdisciplinary and inclusive discussions of multispecies relationships, past, present, and future.

**Host:** Professor David Haig



 

 



 

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