Berkeley
Berkeley
Brandes, Stanley H.
Social Cultural Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Psychological Anthropology. Ritual and Religion. Folklore and the life course. Gender
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-6945
brandes@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Dundes, Alan
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Folklore. Structural analysis. Symbolism. Cultural Anthropology. Worldview Psychoanalysis.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2092, 642-3391
Berkeley/Cooperative Extension
Garbelotto, Matteo
Forest Pathologist
Area of expertise: diseases of native California trees, sudden oak death
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 643-4282
matteo@nature.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Hanks, William
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Maya culture. Language in culture. Discourse, cognition, and communication. Shamanism. Logic in Anthropological inquiry. Anthropology of literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-2651
wfhanks@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Hastorf, Cristine
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Food and agriculture. Archeology. Political complexity. Gender. Paleoethnobotany. Andes
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-5457, 643-1112
hastorf@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Joyce, Rosemary
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies.
Analysis of archeological ceramics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0975
rajoyce@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Nader, Laura
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution. Conflict. Controlling processes. Comparative family organizations. Professional mind-sets
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1218, 642-3391
Berkeley
Ogbu, John
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Psychological Anthropology. Urban Anthropology. Social Structure and organization. Education and culture.Africa. Contemporary American society. Cross-cultural human development.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1182, 642-3391
ogbu@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Schepner-Hughes, Nancy
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Critical Medical Anthropology. Anthropology of violence. Madness and culture. Inequality and marginality. Childhood and the family.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-8431 642-3391
nsh@sscl.berkeley.edu
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Davis
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Irvine
Irvine
Tate, Katherine
Associate professor - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Research has focused on the electoral behavior of African Americans as well as the politics of race, women, and minority groups. She teaches courses in these fields as well as in American government and urban politics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-1869
ktate@uci.edu
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Ana, Otto Santa
Assistant Professor - Cesar Chavez Center - Chicana/Chicano Studies
Areas of Expertise: Anthropologist, social linguist, dialects, the interface of language and social structure, language acquisition and development, ethnic dialect formation, languages and language policy issues.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-8225
otto@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Donnan, Christopher B.
Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Archaeology, cultural change, South America and Spanish.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9644, 825-1991
cdonnan@arts.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Ehret, Christopher
Professor - History/Associate Director - James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Areas of Expertise: East Africa, African linguistics, anthropology, Swahili
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4093, 310-825-4601
ehret@history.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Hammond, Peter B.
Professor Emeritus - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Ethnology, applied anthropology, ethnic stratification, Africa, African diaspora, gay and lesbian studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-794-9165
phammond@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Hecht, Susanna B.
Professor - Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise: Agricultural economics, Amazonian ecosystems, anthropology, geography, resource-based rural development, international development studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4676
sbhecht@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Kennedy, Gail E.
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Biological anthropology, hominid paleotology, early Native Americans, Africa.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4860
kennedy@anthro.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Vigil, James Diego
Professor - Anthropology/Director - Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
Areas of Expertise: Urban anthropology, psychological anthropology, sociocultural change, socialization and educational anthropology, comparative ethnicity; Mexico and United States Southwest Ethnohistory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4997
vigil@ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
Gelles, Paul
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Central Andes, Latin America. Sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity, water issues of Andean highland peoples.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4366
paul.gelles@ucr.edu
Riverside
Kearney, Michael
Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Professor Kearney's work with transnational Zapotec and Mixtec communities takes him from cloud forests of Oaxaca, to the deserts of Baja California, to colonias of border cities, to fields, orchards, and labor camps in the San Juaquin Valley of California, and to Latino barrios in Los Angeles and Riverside. His main research foci are ethnicity, migration, and the theory and ethnography of transnational communities and processes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3346
michael.kearney@ucr.edu
Riverside
Velez-Ibańez, Carlos
Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Work in urban Mexico, in the Southwestern United States, and in Puerto Rico. The development of cultural "funds of knowledge" at different levels: household, community, region, and in non-physical localities. Questions of adaptation, the distribution of sadness, the emergence of social networks and language change, economic and technical shifts within the structure of households, and the migration of human populations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5018
carlos.velez@ucr.edu
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Aldenderfer, Mark
Archaeology Professor
Areas of Expertise: Aldenderfer's research interests are at present focused upon the study of the emergence of complex foraging and pastoral societies in the highlands of the south-central Andes and the Titicaca basin.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-8604
aldender@sscf.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Aswani, Shankar
Assistant Professor - Sociocultural
Areas of Expertise: Research interests are focused on the foraging strategies of horticultural-fisher peoples, property rights and common property resources, and marine ethnoicthyology in the Solomon Islands and Melanesia at large.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5285
aswani@sscf.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Schreiber, Katharina
Professor - Archaeology
Areas of Expertise: Schreiber's research is focused on prehistoric imperialism in Andean South America. Her recently published book is entitled Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-4291
kschreiber@anth.ucsb.edu
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Linger, Daniel T.
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Sociocultural theory, politics, cultural models, cities, violence, transnational experience, Brazil, Japan.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4684, 459-3366
touro@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Nájera-Ramírez, Olga
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Folklore theory, ritual, festival, dance, greater Mexican culture, history and folklore, transnationalism, identity; expressive culture, ethnomusicology, bilingual communication, gender, history and culture of Latin America, U.S., Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4677
olga@cats.ucsc.edu
