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Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Division of Social Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences 2001
Telephone: (805) 893-2257
Website: www.anth.ucsb.edu 
Department Chair: Casey Walsh


 
Faculty
Amy Boddy, PhD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Associate Professor (evolution, genomics, comparative genomics, human biology, evolutionary medicine, fetal-maternal conflict, life history theory, cancer)
Steven Gaulin, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (evolutionary psychology, cognitive adaptations, sexual selection, evolution of sex differences; comparative approaches)
Michael Gurven, PhD, University of New Mexico, Professor (evolutionary medicine, indigenous health, aging and human life history evolution, cooperation, foraging, hunter-gatherer ecology, social networks, South American Indians; Bolivia, Paraguay)
Charlie Hale, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Race, Anti-racism, Activist Anthropology, Latin America) Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Jeffrey Hoelle, PhD, University of Florida, Associate Professor (Environmental anthropology, land use and agriculture, environmental degradation, Brazil, Amazonia)
Doug Kennett, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (Environmental Archaeology, Human Ecology, Demography, Agriculture, Isotope Geochemistry, Genomics; Western North America, Mesoamerica)
David Lawson, PhD, University College London, Associate Professor (behavioral ecology, evolutionary demography, population health, international development, the family, parental investment and childhood; Tanzania)
Sarah McClure, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (archaeology, zooarchaeology, Europe, Mediterranean; ecology; domestication)
Raquel Pacheco, PhD, UC San Diego, Assistant Professor (gender and sexuality, citizenship, biopolitics, development and indigeneity in Mexico and Latin America)
Elana Resnick, PhD, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor (environmental politics, waste, urban infrastructure, racialization, labor, energy, socialism/postsocialism; European Union, Bulgaria)
Emiko Saldivar Tanaka, PhD, New School for Social Research, Continuing Lecturer (Race, racism and anti-racism, State Formation, Institutions, Engaged Anthropology, Latin America)
Stuart Smith, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (archaeology of Egypt and Nubia [the Sudan], ethnicity, culture contact and imperialism, ideology and legitimization, funerary practice, ceramics and residue analysis)
Nic Thompson Gonzalez, Assistant Professor
Amber Vanderwarker, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor (archaeology, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology; Mesoamerica, southeastern United States, foodways, gender, warfare, Political Complexity, Agriculture)
Casey Walsh, PhD, New School for Social Research, Professor (political economy, Mexico-United States borderlands, water, commodities, history)
Gregory Wilson, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor (archaeology, origins of social inequality, warfare; culture contact; Eastern North America, particularly the Mississippi valley and interior southeastern United States)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Francesca Bray, PhD, Cambridge University (social anthropology; technology; agriculture; medicine; science and society; sociology of knowledge; China, Europe, California)
James Brooks, PhD, UC Davis Joint Appointment: HIST
Donald Brown, PhD, Cornell University (sociocultural anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of history; Southeast Asia)
Manuel Carlos
Manuel Carlos, PhD, UC Santa Barbara (political anthropology; Latin America)
Brian Fagan, PhD, Cambridge University (Old World archaeology, general prehistory, multimedia teaching)
Lynn Gamble, PhD, UC Santa Barbara (emergent sociopolitical complexity among hunter-gatherer societies in southern California, especially the Chumash Indians; California, North America)
Michael Glassow, PhD, UC Los Angeles (archaeology, cultural ecology; western North America)
Mary Hancock, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Joint Appointment: HIST
Barbara Herr Harthorn, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Elvin Hatch, PhD, UC Los Angeles (history of anthropology, social history of rural America and New Zealand)
Michael Jochim, PhD, University of Michigan (archaeology, hunters-gatherers, European prehistory, archaeological method and theory)
Juan-Vicente Palerm, PhD, Universidad Iberoamericana
Alexander Robertson, PhD/ScD, University of Edinburgh/University of Cambridge (social change and development, economic and political processes; Africa, Europe)
Katharina Schreiber, PhD, Binghamton University (archaeology of Andean South America and the southwestern United States, origin and development of complex societies, empire expansion, settlement patterns)
Susan Stonich, PhD, University of Kentucky Joint Appointment: ENVST
Donald Symons, PhD, UC Berkeley (physical anthropology, primate social behavior, the evolution of human behavior)
Barbara Voorhies, PhD, Yale University (archaeology, cultural ecology; Mesoamerica)

 
Affiliated Faculty
Jaime Alves, PhD (Black Studies)
Mary Bucholtz, PhD (Linguistics)
Leda Cosmides, PhD (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Sabine Fruhstuck, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)
Stephanie Hom, PhD (French and Italian)
David Novak, PhD (Music)
Laury Oaks, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Mayfair Yang, PhD (Religious Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)