Cameron M. Curtin

I study how culture shapes how people think and behave–
and where culture comes from to begin with.

I am currently a Lecturer in the Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, where I am affiliated with the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab. Beginning in February 2026, I will be a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse, housed in the Toulouse School of Economics. I completed my PhD with Dr. Joseph Henrich at Harvard University, and my BA in Neuroscience at Middlebury College.

I study how culture shapes how people think and behave– and where culture comes from to begin with.

I study how culture shapes how people think and behave–
and where culture comes from to begin with.