Anthropology, Geography, Geology

Research Interests: Pedagogical techniques for undergraduate education in the geosciences.
Courses taught: geology, earth science, oceanography and environmental science
Favorite rock: tuff

Research Interests: Archaeology, Native Californians, Mission-era, Colonialism and culture change, Resistance, Gender.

Research Interests: anthropology of knowledge; medicine, science, technology, and society (MSTS) studies; psychological anthropology; anthropology of religion; history of science; scientific experiments; religion-science debates; anthropology of the mind; American religion and spirituality; occult and metaphysical traditions; embodiment and phenomenology; William James; pragmatism; semiotics; ethics and morality; popular culture
Courses taught: Intro to Cultural Anthropology; Intro to Linguistic Anthropology; Intro to Biological Anthropology; Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion

Research Interests: transnational migration, urban ethnic communities, "tiki" geography, Island Pacific, Southeast Asia, California

Urban Geography, Gentrification, California's Physical and Cultural Landscapes, migration, the Middle East, Central Asia
Courses: Physical Geography, Geography of California, Weather and Climate

Research Interests: My undergraduate and graduate concentrations in anthropology focused on evolutionary biology and primatology, with emphasis in enrichment for captive primates and primate behavioral ecology. My undergraduate studies include grant writing and museum exhibit design and curation. I am a biocultural anthropologist particularly concerned with the ways social environment impacts the mental and physical health of human and nonhuman primates. Additionally, I am interested in how music impacts primate behavior and biology. I am currently documenting the culture of a music genre community and am pursuing my PhD in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Courses Currently Taught: Human Biological Evolution (Biological/Physical Anthropology); Laboratory in Human Biological Evolution (Biological/Physical Anthropology Lab); Human Ways of Life: Cultural Anthropology; Issues and History in Popular Music; Music and Identity in World Cultures; Native People of North America

Other Courses I Teach: The World of Primates; Culture and Nutrition (Culture and Food)

Archaeology: Reconstructing the Past

Research Interests: Tectonic Geomorphology, Coastal Erosion, Landslides
Courses Taught: Geology, Earth Science, Environmental Science

Research Interests: Russia, China, Japan, world religions/languages, ancient history, Byzantine world.
Courses Taught: Cultural Geography, Physical geography, Meteorology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Geog. of CA.

Research Interests: Archaeology, Native Americans, Native cultures of the South Pacific, Amazonia and Africa. Tribal Arts.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural, Physical and Archaeological Anthropology, Native Americans, Anthropology of Religion, Ancient Civilizations of the New World, California Indians and Laboratory Methods in Physical Anthropology.