Regular Faculty

Guillermo Algaze (Ph.D. Chicago 1986), Professor.

Near Eastern, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian archaeology, early civilizations, complex societies; Turkey.

galgaze@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Geoffrey E. Braswell (Ph.D. Tulane 1996), Associate Professor.

Settlement pattern studies, geoarchaeology, lithic production and technology, archaeometry, mathematical methods; the emergence of complex society and economic systems, alternative models of social and political systems; Maya, Mesoamerica.

gbraswel@ucsd.edu, More Information, Website

 

Suzanne A. Brenner (Ph.D. Cornell 1991), Associate Professor.

Sociocultural anthropology, gender, family, and social transformation, gender and religion, morality, anthropology of modernity, Islam, Christianity; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the United States. sbrenner@ucsd.edu, More Information

Thomas J. Csordas (Ph.D. Duke 1980), Professor.

Psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative religion, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture; contemporary U.S. and Native North America.

tcsordas@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Jonathan Friedman (Ph.D. Columbia 1972), Professor.

Social anthropology, dynamics of tribal societies, cultural identity and global processes, global systemic anthropology, transformation of the nation state, multiculturalism and migration, Upland Southeast Asia, Oceania.
jafriedman@ucsd.edu, More Information

Paul S. Goldstein (Ph.D. Chicago 1989), Associate Professor.

Anthropological archaeology, complex societies, Latin America, Andean South America.

psgoldstein@ucsd.edu, More Information, Website

 

John B. Haviland (Ph.D. Harvard 1971), Professor & Department Chair.

Social life of language, Tzotzil Mayan, Australian languages; Mexico, Australia.

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Joseph Hankins (Ph.D. Chicago 2009), Assistant Professor.

Sociocultural anthropology; social movements of labor and identity, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, stigma; circulation, materiality, processes of recognition, publics; Japan, East Asia.

jdhankins@ucsd.edu, More Information, Website

Janis H. Jenkins (Ph.D. UCLA 1984), Professor.

Psychological and Medical Anthropology, culture theory and subjectivity, emotion, gender, violence and malevolence, mental health, psychopharmacology, Mexican and Central American migrants, U.S. Southwest Hispanos and native populations.

jhjenkins@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Thomas E. Levy (Ph.D. Sheffield 1981), Professor.

Anthropological archaeology, Levantine archaeology, complex societies ; Middle East, Israel, Jordan.

tlevy@ucsd.edu, More Information, Website

 

Esra Özyürek (Ph.D. Michigan 2002), Associate Professor.

Secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, public and private, alternative modernities, social and cultural memory, language ideology, gender, economic and natural crisis; Turkey, Middle East.

eozyurek@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Steven Parish (Ph.D. UCSD 1987), Professor.

Psychological anthropology, social and psychological theory, moral and political consciousness, religion, Hinduism, urbanism, hierarchy and inequality; Nepal, India, the US.

sparish@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

David E. Pedersen (Ph.D. Michigan 2004) Associate Professor.

Historical anthropology, modernity, capitalism, transnational migrant life; Latin America, USA,El Salvador, California.a.

dpedersen@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Nancy Postero (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2001), Associate Professor.

Political economy, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, citizenship, identity, indigenous politics, development, non-governmental organizations, Bolivia, Latin America.

npostero@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Joel Robbins (Ph.D. Virginia 1998), Professor.

Social and cultural anthropology, anthropological theory, religion, symbolism, social structure, cultural conceptions of the environment, Western ideology, globalization and cultural change; Melanesia.

jrobbins@weber.ucsd.edu, More Information

Margaret Schoeninger (Ph.D. Michigan 1980), Professor.

Biological anthropology, diet reconstruction, evolution of human diet, bone chemistry, human nutritional ecology.

mjschoen@ucsd.edu, More Information, Website

 

Katerina Semendeferi (Ph.D. Iowa 1994), Professor.

Comparative primate neuroanatomy, evolution of primate intelligence and cognition.
ksemende@ucsd.edu, More Information

 

Rupert Stasch (Ph.D. Chicago 2001), Associate professor

Sociocultural anthropology, social and semiotic theory, processes of representation, otherness in social relations, cultural tourism, anthropology of exchange; Melanesia, Indonesia.
rstasch@ucsd.edu, More Information

Shirley C. Strum (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1976), Professor.

Biological anthropology, primate socioecology, cognitive ethology, evolutionary theory, conservation; Africa. [On leave every Fall and Winter.]

sstrum@africaonline.co.ke(Africa, Summer, Fall, and Winter), sstrum@ucsd.edu (UCSD, Spring), More Information

Kathryn A. Woolard (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1983), Professor.

Linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, political discourse; Catalonia, Spain, U.S.

kwoolard@ucsd.edu, More Information