Faculty

The UCSC Anthropology department has eighteen permanent faculty members teaching in the subdisciplines of Anthropological Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and Physical Anthropology. They are joined each quarter by visiting lecturers, researchers, and teaching fellows, creating a vibrant academic community. Many of our faculty have been recognized with excellence in teaching awards.

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Mark Anderson Title:  Assistant Professor of Anthropology Email:  mda@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3350 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 329 Office Hours:  Fri 1pm-3pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Race & ethnicity, diasporas & transnationalism, Latin America, social theory Area of Research: Identity formation, peoples of African descent and indigenous rights in Honduras and Latin America Area of Fieldwork: Honduras, Central America

Donald Brenneis Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  brenneis@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3855 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 349 Office Hours:  Mon 9am-11am Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Language and culture, linguistic anthropology, law and society, discourse analysis, Oceania American institutions, performance and power. Area of Research: Political and legal discourse; bureaucracies and bureaucratic language; social studies of science; verbal and musical performance. Area of Fieldwork: Fiji Indian communities, Indian diaspora, Himalayas, US federal science bureaucracies.

Melissa L. Caldwell Title:  Associate Professor of Anthropology Email:  lissa@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3856 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 353 Office Hours:  Mon 9am-10:30am Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: anthropology of Europe and the former Soviet Union, postsocialism, food and society, poverty and welfare systems, identity politics, religion, memory and state, urban anthropology, social welfare. Area of Research: Economic anthropology, poverty and welfare, anthropology of food, memory, socialism and postsocialism. Area of Fieldwork: Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe.

Nancy Chen Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  nchen@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5198 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 335 Office Hours:  On leave Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Medical anthropology, visual anthropology, ethnographic film. Area of Research: Mental health and cross-cultural psychiatry, traditional and alternative healing practices, new Asian cinema, Asian-American identity. Area of Fieldwork: China, Taiwan, California, Pacific Rim.

Nathaniel Dominy Title:  Associate Professor of Anthropology Email:  njdominy@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2541 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 333 Office Hours:  Sabbatical Leave Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~njdominy/ Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Human anatomy and physiology, apes and human evolution. Area of Research: Primate sensory systems, color vision, primate evolution, tropical ecology, food properties, and nutrition. Area of Fieldwork: Africa, Asia, Central and South America; tropics.

Shelly Errington Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  sherring@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4667 Office (831) 212-4951 Message Office:  Social Sciences 1, 407 Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: visual culture (documentary film, photography, multimedia); visual semiotics Area of Research: the globalization of images and arts; media and documentary discourses in the context of power; arts and their markets; the construction of national imaginaries and narratives in public spaces Area of Fieldwork: eclectic, including Latin America (Mexico), Southeast Asia (Indonesia)

Mayanthi Fernando Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  mfernan3@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2312 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 309 Office Hours:  Wed 10am-12pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: anthropology of Islam, politics and secularism, modernity and difference, postcolonial Britain and France, anthropology of freedom, anthropology of Western Europe, multiculturalism Areas of Research: secularism, Islam, religious minorities in France/Europe, legal and political pluralism Areas of Fieldwork: France, Western Europe

Alison Galloway Title:  Vice Provost, Academic Affairs - Professor of Anthropology Email:  gallow@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3223 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 401 Office Hours:  By appointment Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Skeletal biology, anthropology of aging and reproduction, forensic anthropology, and human adaptability and variation. Area of Research: Skeletal changes and bone metabolism, reproductive and skeletal interactions, forensic skeletal analysis and expert witness testimony. Area of Fieldwork: United States.

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  dianegg@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2633 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 351 Office Hours:  Wed 1:30pm-3:15pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: African and Eurasian prehistory, history of archaeology, zooarchaeology, origins of farming. Area of Research:Zooarchaeology, African archaeology, pastoralism, colonial New Mexico, Holocene coastal Californian, interpretive theory, visual anthropology. Area of Fieldwork: Kenya, Tanzania, New Mexico, California. For prospective graduate students.

Judith A. Habicht-Mauche Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  judith@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3201 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 403 Office Hours:  Sabbatical Leave Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: North American prehistory and ethnohistory, ceramic analysis, complex societies of the New World, archaeological method and theory. Area of Research: Ceramic analysis, tribal societies, culture contact and trade, material culture and technology, ethnicity and culture. Area of Fieldwork: American Southwest and Southern Plains.

Susan F. Harding Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  hard@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2240 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 347 Office Hours:  By appointment Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Narrative and rhetoric, social movements, state formation, millennialism, born-again Christianity, American culture, religion. Area of Research: Rural political economy and culture; religious and political communities and discourses. Area of Fieldwork: Village Spain and American churches.

Daniel T. Linger Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  touro@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4684 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 331 Office Hours:  Wed 10am-12pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Brazil, psychological anthropology, politics, and cities. Area of Research: Violence, politics, and transnational experience. Area of Fieldwork: Brazil, Japan.

Carolyn Martin Shaw Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  cmclark@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4666 Office Office:  409 Soc Sci 1 Office Hours:  Sabbatical Leave Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: African ethnography and African women, social theory, and sexuality. Area of Research: Political economy, women and gender, colonial discourse. Area of Fieldwork: Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Andrew S. Mathews Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  amathews@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2080 Office (831) 459-5900 Fax Office:  325 Social Sciences 1 Office Hours:  Thu 2pm-4pm Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~amathews/Home.html Research Focus:  Environmental Anthropology, bureaucracy, science studies, environmental history, statemaking; Mexico

J. Cameron Monroe Title:  Assistant Professor of Anthropology Email:  jcmonroe@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3614 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 321 Office Hours:  Wed 10am-12pm Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~jcmonroe/UCSC-APAP/Home.html Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Historical archaeology, African and African-Diaspora archaeology, the evolution of complex societies, and the analysis and interpretation of buildings and landscapes Area of Research: Historical archaeology, complex societies, political economy, landscape, Africa and the African-Diaspora. Area of Fieldwork: West Africa

Megan Moodie Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  mmoodie@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-1879 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 306 Office Hours:  Wed 1:30pm-3pm Research Focus:  South Asian studies, feminist theory, reproductive and population politics, kinship, development, legal identities, tribal communities

Olga Nájera-Ramírez Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  olga@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4677 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 406 Office Hours:  Wed 1pm-3pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Folkloristics, expressive culture, ritual and festival, ethnomusicology, and dance. Area of Research: Folklore, Greater Mexican culture and history, media, and gender. Area of Fieldwork: US. and Mexico.

Triloki N. Pandey Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  pandey@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4675 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 319 Office Hours:  Sabbatical Leave Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Native peoples of America, cultures of India, political anthropology, anthropological theories, and comparisons in anthropology. Area of Research: Religion and politics of Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest; Tribal peoples of Himalayan Terai and Northeast India. Area of Fieldwork: Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Tharus of Himalayan Terai, Nagas, Garos, and Khasi of Northeast India.

Lisa Rofel Title:  Department Chair/Professor of Anthropology Email:  lrofel@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3615 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 323 Office Hours:  Wed 1:30pm-3pm Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Critical theory, feminist anthropology, popular culture, political economy, contemporary China, gender and sexuality. Area of Research: Urban political economy and culture, popular culture, gender and science, transnational capitalism. Area of Fieldwork: China

Danilyn Rutherford Title:  Associate Professor Email:  druther1@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-1757 Office Office Hours:  Wed 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Focus:  Borders and frontiers, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, kinship, performance, Christianity, secularism, sovereignty, publics, affect, technology, governance, theory and method in anthropology, West Papua, Indonesia, the U.S.

Anna L. Tsing Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  atsing@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4795 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 411 Office Hours:  Appt. Only Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Feminist anthropology, Southeast Asia, ethnography, and social theory. Area of Research: Politics and culture in Indonesia, rainforest ecology, gender in the US. Area of Fieldwork: Indonesia, US.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  mwolfmey@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2365 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 308 Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~mwolfmey/ Research Focus:  Medical Anthropology; science, technology, medicine; the body & health; kinship and the family; work, ideology, governance; time & space; popular media; urban studies; England and the United States

Adrienne L. Zihlman Title:  Professor of Anthropology Email:  azihlman@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4467 Office Office:  Social Sciences 1, 355 Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~azihlman/ Research Focus:  Teaching Specialties: Physical anthropology, primate and human evolution, comparative functional anatomy, sex and gender, life history and evolutionary theory, and history of human evolutionary studies. Area of Research: Comparative functional anatomy and locomotion of apes and humans; skeletal biology of apes; growth and development in catarrhine primates; sex differences in anatomy and behavior. Area of Fieldwork: Africa (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa) and Europe.