Anthropology
2012-13 General Catalog
361 Social Sciences 1 Building
(831) 459- 3320
http://anthro.ucsc.edu/
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Donald Brenneis
Linguistic anthropology, folklore, legal anthropology, ethnomusicology, overseas Indians, South Asia, disputing and dispute management, legal language, bureaucratic institutions
Melissa L. Caldwell
Poverty and welfare; charity and philanthropy; religion; the politics of food, gardens, nature, and landscapes; socialism and postsocialism; Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
Nancy N. Chen
Medical anthropology, visual anthropology, urban anthropology, Asian American identity, mental health, food, China
May N. Diaz, Emerita
Shelly Errington
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
Alison Galloway
Skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, human variation, history and ethics of physical anthropology, reproductive energetics and aging
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
Precontact and early contact North America; cross-cultural interaction and trade; ceramic technology; archaeology of gender, power, and identity; Southwest and Southern Plains
Susan Harding
Culture, politics, narrative, gender, local/global studies, ethnographic writing, fundamentalism, Christianity, state-making, aging, America, and Spain
Diane K. Lewis, Emerita
Daniel T. Linger, Emeritus
Carolyn Martin Shaw, Emerita
Olga Nájera-Ramírez
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, the U.S., and Mexico
Triloki Nath Pandey
Native peoples of North America, cultures of India, political anthropology, anthropological theories and comparisons; native North America; tribal India; Nepal
Richard R. Randolph, Emeritus
Lisa Rofel
Critical theory, anthropology of modernity, popular/public culture, gender and sexuality, queer theory, transnational capitalism, postcolonial and transnational feminism, China
Danilyn Rutherford
Borders and frontiers, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, kinship, performance, Christianity, secularism, sovereignty, publics, affect, technology, governancy, theory and method in anthropology, West Papua, Indonesia, the U.S.
Stuart A. Schlegel, Emeritus
Anna Tsing
Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Adrienne L. Zihlman, Emerita
Primate and human evolution, comparative functional anatomy of monkeys and apes, sex and gender, growth and development, life history and evolutionary theory, history of physical anthropology
Associate Professor
Mark Anderson
Racial formation, diaspora, nationalism, transnationalism, culture and power; Latin America, African diaspora
Andrew Salvador Mathews
Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, conservation and development, environmental history, Mexico, Latin America
Renya Ramirez
Native American studies, Indian identity, Native Americans and anthropology, urban Indians, Native American women, cultural citizenship, expressive culture, and anti-racist education
Assistant Professor
Chelsea Blackmore
Pre-Columbian archaeology (Mesoamerican focus), identity formation, complex societies, class and state formation, gender, feminist/queer theory
Mayanthi Fernando
Anthropology of religion, secularism, Islam, multiculturalism/pluralism; colonial and post-colonial France, Europe
J. Cameron Monroe
Historical archaeology, complex societies, political economy, architecture and landscape, Africa and the African diaspora
Megan Moodie
South Asian studies, feminist theory, reproductive and population politics, kinship, development, legal identities, tribal communities
Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Anthropology and history of medicine and public health, science studies, American studies, popular culture, the United States and the United Kingdom
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Professor
Raoul Birnbaum (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China
John Brown Childs, Emeritus (Sociology)
Ethnic conflict and transcommunal cooperation; sociology of knowledge; African American, Native American, Latino interactions
James T. Clifford (History of Consciousness)
History of anthropology, travel, and exoticism; transnational cultural studies, museum studies, indigenous studies
Carolyn Dean (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America
A. Russell Flegal (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology
Stephen R. Gliessman, Emeritus (Environmental Studies)
Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, tropical land use and development, alternative trade networks, sustainable livelihoods and conservation, community and agroecology
Donna Haraway, Emerita
Paul Koch (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease
Patricia Zavella, (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Transnational migration of Mexicans, women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and Chicana/Latino studies
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Bury (Environmental Studies)
Political ecology; sustainable development; Latin American studies; international relations; institutional dimensions of natural resource conservation in the global south ; extractive industries; climate change; new models of conservation
Marcia Ochoa (Feminist Studies)
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, geography, multimedia production, graphic design, colonialism and modernity, Latin American studies—Colombia and Venezuela
S. Ravi Rajan (Environmental Studies)
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics
Assistant Professor
Flora Lu (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Ecological anthropology, human behavioral ecology, Amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples, conservation, Ecuador, culture change, market integration, indigenous resource management, political ecology, environmental justice
Cecilia Rivas (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Salvadoran transnationalism; media (Internet newspapers; migration; globalization; race, ethnicity, and gender; bilingualism; consumption; El Salvador; Central America
Revised: 8/13/12
