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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Affiliated Faculty
Raoul Birnbaum, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Place and space; religion and visual culture in China; Buddhist studies.
John Brown Childs, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Sociology)
Sociology of knowledge, religion and social action, elitist and populist social movements.
James T. Clifford, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (History of Consciousness)
Modern European intellectual history, the history of anthropology, Melanesian studies, cultural criticism.
Carolyn Dean, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America.
A. Russell Flegal, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles.
Margaret (Greta) A. Gibson, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Education)
Immigrants and education; minority status and schooling; community-school relationships; ethnicity, class, gender, and educational processes; qualitative research methods.
Stephen Gliessman, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Environmental Studies)
Agroecology, natural history, California vegetation.
Donna Haraway, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (History of Consciousness)
Feminist theory, historical and cultural studies of modern science and technology, relation of life and human sciences.
Paul Koch, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology.
Marcia Ochoa, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Community Studies)
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity,Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studies - Colombia and Venezuela, political philsophy, geography.
S. Ravi Rajan, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Environmental History and Political Ecology)
Interface of environmental history and political ecology, urban environmental politics, environmental ethics and the science, technology and society interface.
Renya Ramirez, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (American Studies)
Native American studies, Indian Identity, Native Americans and anthropology, urban Indians, Native American women, cultural citizenship, expressive culture and anti-racist education.
Patricia Zavella, Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: (Community Studies)
Women's work, family studies, Chicano studies, feminist theory, poverty and field ethnographic research methods.
