Professor Harvey Whitehouse is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. One of the world's leading experts on the evolutionary basis of human culture, Whitehouse has spent four decades conducting research in some of the most extreme places on earth: from the battlefields of the Arab Spring, via millenarian cults on Pacific islands, to violent football gangs in South America. Along the way, he has undertaken research at some of the world's most important archaeological sites, brain-scanning facilities, and child psychology labs - all with a view to pioneering a new, scientific approach to the study of human society.
At Oxford, Whitehouse directs the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and is a founding director of Seshat, a vast database on human history that enables scholars and scientists to test hypotheses about the rise and fall of human civilizations. In academic circles, he is best known as one of the founders of the 'Cognitive Science of Religion', a field which investigates the evolved psychology underlying religious thinking and behaviour'.
Whitehouse's work has featured in the Guardian, Telegraph, Scientific American and New Scientist. He has delivered talks at the World Economic Forum and the United Nations and served as the Chief Consultant for a BBC Two documentary series, Extraordinary Rituals. He lives in Oxford.

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