Faculty and Staff

Faculty and Staff

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Gabriele Anton
Department Coordinator
Email:
Gabriele.Anton@csulb.edu
Phone:
(562) 985-5171
Office:
FO3-305
Office Hours:
In person M-F 8:30am – 4:30pm

 

Jayne Howell
Professor & Graduate Advisor
Email: Jayne.Howell@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5192
Office: FO3-312
Office Hours: M 2:45-3:45pm & by appointment appointment Calendly – Dr. Jayne Howell
Research and Teaching Focus: Education and employment, gender, migration, urban anthropology, ethnohistory, tourism, Mexico; Mexico, Latin America
Webpage: Jayne Howell

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Wendy Klein
Professor 
Email: Wendy.Klein@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8828
Office: PSY-407
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-4pm; M/W3:30-5:00pm Zoom only; TH 10-11am in person & zoom  https://csulb.zoom.us/j/6226005477#success
Research and Teaching Focus: Linguistic and cultural anthropology, ethnography of communication, semiotics; narrative and the discursive construction of youth identities; religious socialization; Japan, Northern India, U.S.
Webpage: Wendy Klein

Barbara LeMaster
Professor
Email: Barbara.LeMaster@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5037
Office: F03-322
Office Hours: T/Th 9:45-10:45am by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus:
Ethnicity and gender, applied linguistics, deaf languages and culture, interpreting and translation, intercultural communication, applied anthropology, anthropology and education, urban anthropology, medical anthropology; Ireland, Southern California
Webpage: Barbara LeMaster & www.csulb.edu/~lemaster/

Barbara LeMaster

Ron Loewe
Professor
Email: Ronald.Loewe@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5034
Office: F03-324
Office Hours: M/F 9:00-10:30am; Zoom ID: 862 5952 2101
Research and Teaching Focus: Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, Maya language, culture and politics, tourism; Mexico, Latin America
Webpage: Ron Loewe

Ron Loewe

Kara Miller
Associate Professor 
Email: Kara.Miller@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5186
Office: FO3-310
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2pm
Research and Teaching Focus: Embodiment, political ecology, healers and healing, environmental resources, development, women’s studies, selfhood, futures, empowerment
Webpage: Kara Miller

 

Hector Neff
Professor
Email: Hector.Neff@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4468
Office: FO5-230
Office Hours: T/TH 11am-12pm
Research and Teaching Focus: Archaeology, archaeometry, evolutionary theory, origins of agriculture, quantitative methods; Mesoamerica, Southwest United States, South America

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Karen Quintiliani
Professor
Email: Karen.Quintiliani@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1301
Office: FO3-314
Office Hours: TBA
Research and Teaching Focus: Urban and applied anthropology, social welfare, public policy, gender, and sexuality; North America, Southeast Asia
Webpage: Karen Quintiliani

Steven Rousso-Schindler
Professor & Department Chair
Email: Steven.Rousso-Schindler@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8179
Office: FO3-303
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm by appointment only https://csulb.zoom.us/j/755904715#success
Research and Teaching Focus: Visual anthropology and anthropology of Palestine/Israel, national narrative theory, narrative theory, demography, Middle East anthropology, medical anthropology; Israel/Palestine, United States, rural China
Webpage: Steven Rousso-Schindler

Sachiko Sakai
Assistant Professor
Email: Sachiko.Sakai@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1916
Office: FO3-316
Office Hours : T/TH 5:00-6:00 PM via Zoom https://csulb.zoom.us/j/5629851916#success or by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Archaeology of the Southwestern US; Cultural resource management; Virgin Ancestral pueblo prehistory; Luminescence dating; Archaeometry; Chemical compositional analysis of artifacts; Ceramic analysis; Evolutional archaeology; Gabrielino/Tongva archaeology; Small-scale farmer adaptations in marginal environments; Prehistoric trading.
Webpage: Sachiko Sakai

Sachiko Sakai

Jeanelle Uy
Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Advisor
Email: Jeanelle.Uy@csulb.edu
Phone:
Office:
FO3-309
Office Hours :
Fridays 1-4pm in person and over Zoom https://calendly.com/profuy
Research and Teaching Focus: 
Biological anthropology, modern human and primate skeletal and gut anatomy, evolution of torso anatomy, human and primate evolution, fossil hominins
Webpage: Coming Soon

R. Scott Wilson
Associate Professor
Email: Scott.Wilson@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5172
Office: F03-320
https://calendly.com/scott-wilson-1/15min
Research and Teaching Focus: Race and ethnicity, transnational media, cultural production; Taiwan, Global East Asia
Webpage: Scott Wilson

R. Scott Wilson

Melissa K. Wrapp
Assistant Professor
Email:
 melissa.wrapp@csulb.edu
Office: FO3-318
Office Hours: M/W 9:00-10:30am or by appointment https://calendly.com/mwrapp
Research and Teaching Focus: design anthropology, architecture/built environment, urban studies, economic anthropology, inequality, financial technology, race and racism, law and property, Southern Africa, United States
Website: Melissa Wrapp

Melissa K. Wrapp

 

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Robert Chhaing-Carleton
Email:
Robert.Carleton-Chhaing@csulb.edu
Office:
n/a
Office Hours:
Online only, by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus:
Visual anthropology, documentary film, ethnographic podcasting, psychological visual anthropology, anthropology of genocide, the arts and social justice, human rights, video oral histories, Cambodia and Cambodian diaspora

Hilarie Kelly
Email: Hilarie.Kelly@csulb.edu
Office: FO3-320
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1-4 PM
Research and Teaching Focus:

 

Saira Naqvi
Email: Saira.Naqvi@csulb.edu
Office: By appointment
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 PM
Research and Teaching Focus:

 

Violetta Paley
Email:
vpaley7@gmail.com
Phone:
(562) 985-2721
Office:
FO5-212
Office Hours:
Tuesday 12:30-1:30 PM
Research and Teaching Focus: Anthropology of Health and Healing: Alternative healing therapies, integrative health, critical medical anthropology, gender/power/inequality, nature and mental health, hypnosis and meditation, psychotherapeutics, inner states, pain, cancer, PMDD, addiction, autoimmune disorders, illness and healing narratives, California, Russia, SE Asia 

Mihir Pandya
Email: Mihir.Pandya@csulb.edu
Phone:  (562) 985-5171
Office: FO5-212
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:15 – 3:15 PM or by appointment.; Zoom only https://csulb.zoom.us/j/6511480539#success
Research and Teaching Focus: Science and technology, knowledge and expertise, security and infrastructure, diversity and generation; United States, India

Webpage: Mihir Pandya

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Kayla Patterson
Email: Kayla.Patterson@csulb.edu
Office: F05-229
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11 AM – 1 PM
Research and Teaching Focus: Critical medical anthropology, structural violence, healthcare access, chronic conditions, diabetes, adaptive and alternative health strategies

Jennifer Rashidi
Email:
Jennifer.Rashidi@csulb.edu
Office:
FO3-320
Office Hours:
Thursdays 11am in person or over Zoom by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus:

 

Katherine Scully
Email:
Katherine.Scully@csulb.edu
Office:
FO5-229
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Research and Teaching Focus:
Visual anthropology, new media ethnography, queer and feminist theory, futurity, political imagination, storytelling, identity, linguistic and cultural anthropology, digital media, and community engagement

Michelle Tabencki
Email:
Michelle.Tabencki@csulb.edu
Office: On Leave
Office Hours: N/A
Research and Teaching Focus:
Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, skeletal anatomy

 

Emeriti Faculty

James Gregory, James.Gregory@csulb.edu
Daniel O. Larson, Daniel.Larson@csulb.edu
Eugene Ruyle, Eugene.Ruyle@csulb.edu
Kaoru Oguri, Kaoru_Oguri@hotmail.com
George Scott, George.Scott@csulb.edu
Namika Raby, Namika.Raby@csulb.edu
Marcus Young Owl, Marcus.YoungOwl@csulb.edu

 

In Memoriam

Dr. Robert Harman

Dr. Keith Dixon

Alexandra Jaffe

Dr. Alexandra Jaffe

Dr. Pamela Bunte