# Current Lab Members ## expand\_more [### Joseph Henrich ](/people/joseph-henrich)Principal Investigator Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology My research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution... ![Joe Henrich](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/henrich_pic.jpeg?itok=_1eRWd5f) [### Mohammad Atari ](/people/mohammad-atari)Assistant Professor I am a social psychologist, interested in why and how morality binds people together, but also blinds them into ‘‘us’’ vs. ‘‘them.’’ I am currently examining the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie cultural change and development of... ![Mohammad Atari](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/mohammad_atari_pic_01122022.jpg?itok=RzZ643WD) [### Pietro Beltrame ](/people/pietro-beltrame)Fellow *Ph.D. Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University* ![pietro b headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/pietro%20b%20headshot.jpg?itok=JL4a_iYq) [### Damian Blasi ](/people/damian-blasi)ICREA Research Professor I study the cognitive, behavioral, and cultural underpinnings of the languages of the world, not only as they exist now but also as they unfolded over the course of the Holocene. I rely primarily on the statistical and computational analysis of diverse... ![blasi_heb.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/blasi_heb.jpg?itok=1Hb-MQzq) [### Patrick Burns ](/people/patrick-burns)Associate Research Scholar My research interests are computational philology and natural language processing with an emphasis on historical languages, primarily Latin and Ancient Greek. I received my doctorate from Fordham University in Classics in 2016 and have been active since... ![patrick-burns.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/patrick-burns.jpeg?itok=Inecjc2J) [### Matthew Cashman ](/people/matthew-cashman)Houlden Fellow I study information transmission via culture, and I do it with tools I've developed for measuring the flow of memes through minds. These tools are quantitative (in that we end up with bits and so have a common currency), content-agnostic (so we don't have... ![Matthew_cashman](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/Cashman_Matthew_220901_web.jpg?itok=HYajPV_a) [### Cammie Curtin ](/people/cammie-curtin)Lecturer I am interested in understanding how human cultural practices evolve and, relatedly, how they shape psychology and behavior. My current work examines how social norms and institutions– such as those governing kinship, economic exchange, and community... ![cammie headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/cammie.jpg?itok=P1hAlwkz) [### Jennifer Devereaux ](/people/jennifer-devereaux)Lecturer My research sits at the intersection of Classics, philosophy, and cognitive science, examining how predictive models shape knowledge, embed bias, and regulate behavior in both ancient and algorithmic systems. ![jen-devereaux-2.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/jen-devereaux-2.jpeg?itok=31r8DjcK) [### Liwen Hou ](/people/liwen-hou)Postdoctoral Fellow I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. My research focuses on ways of using computational methods and large corpora to study language change over time. More broadly, my interests are in Computational Linguistics and Natural... ![liwen-hou.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/liwen-hou.jpeg?itok=gR6cKzKl) [### Ivan Kroupin ](/people/ivan-kroupin)Postdoctoral Fellow The structure of human cognition is underdetermined by our genetic makeup to a unique degree - evident from our species' unparalleled diversity of cognitive and behavioral repertoires. It follows that determining which repertoire an individual human ends... ![ivan_kroupin_2021.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/ivan_kroupin_2021.jpg?itok=vz4zYsl9) [### Raphael Mu ](/people/raphael-mu)PhD Student (G1) I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens... ![Raphael Mu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Raphael%20Mu_Photo_0.jpeg?itok=M-H-7fWr) [### Michael Muthukrishna ](/people/michael-muthukrishna-0)Associate Professor My research focuses on answering three broad questions: (1) Why are humans so different to other animals? (2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained... ![Michael](/sites/g/files/omnuum5841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/culture_cognition_coevol_lab/files/michaelmuthukrishna.png?itok=JdkHd_rb)