William White Howells (November 27, 1908 – December 20, 2005) was a professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
in 1930 and obtained a doctorate from Harvard in 1934 and worked for the American Museum of Natural History.
[3] He lectured at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1937 to 1954, serving as a lieutenant in the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II.
[5] In 1998, with his wife Muriel Seabury, Howells endowed the directorship of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard.
In 1992 he won the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.