People
Faculty
- Associate Professor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
My work focuses broadly on evolutionary applications to human health and disease. Topics include: evolution, genomics, comparative biology, phylogenetics, evolutionary medicine, maternal-fetal conflict, life history theory, and cancer.
- Assistant Professor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (primate behavioral ecology, evolution of social systems, competition and cooperation, evolutionary game theory, behavioral endocrinology)
- (805) 893-4269
- (805) 893-5988
- HSSB 2057
- Wet lab: Bioengineering 0202
- Dry lab: HSSB 2043
- Professor
- 2014-2015 Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher
Integrative Anthropological Sciences, with special interests in evolutionary psychology, cognitive adaptations, the human voice, sexual selection, evolution of sex differences, lipid metabolism and brain evolution.
- Professor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (behavioral ecology, evolutionary medicine, human biology, biodemography, hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists, life history theory, indigenous health; Bolivia, Paraguay)
- (805) 893-2202
- HSSB 2060
- SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences
- Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology (Political anthropology of Latin America, Black and Indigenous autonomy, activist research methods, critical race theory.)
- Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology (medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, risk and perception, environmental and health inequality, science, technology and society, gender, race and new technologies, public engagement/deliberation, immigration and health, mixed methods for social research, collaborative interdisciplinary research)
- (805) 893-3350
- HSSB 2074 (Anthropology)
- HSSB 2059 (Anthropology Lab)
- Associate Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology (environmental anthropology; ethnography; agriculture, land change and deforestation; Latin America; Brazilian Amazon)
- Professor
Archaeology (Environmental Archaeology and Human Behavioral Ecology)
- Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (behavioural ecology, evolutionary demography, global health, the family, parental care, marriage, sexual conflict, gender equality; Tanzania)
- Associate Professor
Archaeology. Mediterranean and European prehistory; environmental archaeology; origins and spread of agriculture and animal husbandry; behavioral ecology, landscape evolution and biodiversity; faunal and ceramic analysis
- (805) 893-3477
- HSSB 1029
- Mediterranean Prehistory and Paleoecology Laboratory
- Assistant Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
(indigenous studies, gender & sexuality, race & racism, development, migration, Mexico)
- Assistant Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology (environmental politics, waste, urban infrastructure, racialization, nuclear energy, labor, socialism/postsocialism, European Union, Bulgaria)
- Continuing Lecturer
State and Racial Formation, Mestizaje, Nation, Race and Ethnic Relations, Indigenous, Afro-descendants and Mestizo Population, Anti-Racism, Mexico and Latin America.
- Professor
- Director Institute for Social
- Behavioral & Economic Research
Archaeology (archaeology of Egypt and Nubia [the Sudan], ethnicity, culture contact and imperialism, entanglement, secondary state formation, ideology and legitimization, funerary practice, ceramics and residue analysis)
- (805) 893-7887
- HSSB 1059 (Anthropology)
- North Hall 2204 (ISBER)
- Assistant Professor
Integrative Anthropological Studies
I am a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary primatologist with a research focus on the links between sociality, health, and biological fitness in human and non-human primates. My work integrates evolutionary biology, animal behavior, sociology, and public health, and tackles questions by pairing behavioral, ecological, and biomarker data. Active research topics include 1) costs and benefits of social ties at different stages of the life course, 2) social and environmental influences on energetics and immunity, and 3) drivers of changes in social strategies and profiles with age.
Github: https://github.com/gavago
- Distinguished Professor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology; social psychology, economics, hominid-behavioral evolution, behavioral ecology, evolutionary genetics)
- Professor
Archaeology (paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology; Mesoamerica, southeastern United States)
- Professor
- Department Chair
Sociocultural Anthropology (political economy, Mexico-United States borderlands, water, commodities, history, materialisms)
- Associate Professor
Archaeology (emergent complexity, identity politics, warfare; Eastern North America, particularly the Mississippi valley and interior southeastern United States)