People
Faculty
- Professor (Joint appointment with Chicana & Chicano Studies)
Archaeology (Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory)
- Assistant 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)
- 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 (South Asia, social theory, nationalism, religion, cultural studies, feminist theory, public memory)
- 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, land change, Latin America, Brazilian Amazon)
- Professor
Archaeology (Environmental Archaeology and Human Behavioral Ecology)
- Assistant Professor
Bioarchaeology (Natural/social disasters, inequality; health; violence; ethnicity; mortuary/skeletal analysis; biogeochemistry; ethnobioarchaeology; Latin America)
- Assistant Professor
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (behavioural ecology, evolutionary demography, population health, international development, ‘harmful cultural practices’, the family, parental investment and childhood; Tanzania)
- Associate Professor
Archaeology
- 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)
- 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 1003 (Anthropology)
- North Hall 2204 (ISBER)
- 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; Graduate Advisor
Archaeology (emergent complexity, identity politics, warfare; Eastern North America, particularly the Mississippi valley and interior southeastern United States)