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Harvard University · Anthropology

17.5% of Harvard University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Harvard University: 17.5% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

8%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

50%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

8%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

12 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

ANTHRO 1713 · Disability and the Body94

Anthropology

Is disability a human constant? Is it the physical outcome of an event/accident (including particular genetic combinations and developmental events in the fetus) or exposure to toxicity? Is it merely a social consequence of bodily norms,…

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ANTHRO 1781 · What Is Latin America? Politics, Culture, Identity78

Anthropology

This seminar explores the anthropology of Latin America in the context of capitalism and late capitalism to understand the political, economic, and cultural consequences of particular modes of production and the social worlds they create.…

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ANTHRO 1435 · Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard's History75

Anthropology

Harvard's museum collections have often been used to interrogate the world outside of "us": peoples, events, places, and things. In this course we will reverse that gaze and ask what the collections and the processes of collecting reveal…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTHRO 1716 · Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Making of the Global Social Order17

Anthropology

This seminar course is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who are interested in the relationship between neoliberalism, the global social order, and inequities in health and wellbeing. It examines…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Harvard University · Anthropology	bias_left_share	17.5	—	40	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

Formula: 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval: Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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