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Cultural Faculty

Mark D Anderson

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-295-2831
Email
- mda@ucsc.edu

Melissa L Caldwell

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-3856
Email
- lissa@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Russia, Ethnography, Poverty, Social Justice, Socialism, African Diaspora, More...

Nancy N Chen

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-5198
Email
- nchen@ucsc.edu

Mayanthi L Fernando

Title
- Professor of Anthropology
Phone
831-459-2240
Email
- mfernan3@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Religion and Secularism, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexuality

Ashwak Hauter

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- hauter@ucsc.edu

Dolly Kikon

Title
- Professor
Email
- dkikon@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, Food/Nutrition, Social More...

Nidhi A Mahajan

Title
- Assistant Professor
Phone
831-459-2541
Email
- nmahajan@ucsc.edu

Andrew S Mathews

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-2080
Email
- amathews@ucsc.edu

Megan Colleen Moodie

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-295-4364
Email
- mmoodie@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ethnography

Renya K Ramirez

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-4493
Email
- renya@ucsc.edu

Savannah Shange

Title
- Associate Professor
Phone
831-459-4467
Email
- sshangeb@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnography, American More...

Anna L Tsing

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-4795
Email
- atsing@ucsc.edu

Archaeology Faculty

Peter F Biehl

Title
- Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies
Phone
(831) 459-3336
Email
- pbiehl@ucsc.edu

Jon D Daehnke

Title
- Associate Professor
Phone
831-502-7064
Email
- jdaehnke@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise American Studies, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic More...

Carla Hernandez Garavito

Title
- Assistant Professor
Phone
831-459-4677
Email
- chern133@ucsc.edu

James Monroe

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-3614
Email
- jcmonroe@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Archaeology, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Slavery, More...

Erendira Quintana Morales

Title
- Assistant Professor
Phone
831-459-3366
Email
- equinta6@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Anthropology, Archaeology, Animal-Human Relationships, Climate Change, More...

Tsim D Schneider

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- tdschnei@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Anthropology, Archaeology, Colonialism, California History, Indigenous More...

Biological Anthropology Faculty

Lars Fehren‑Schmitz

Title
- Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Phone
831-459-3851
Email
- lfehrens@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient DNA, Archaeology, Human Biology, Population Biology, Molecular More...

Vicky M Oelze

Title
- Associate Professor
Phone
831-459-2365
Email
- voelze@ucsc.edu
Office Hours Thursdays 10:30am - 12pm (by appointment: More...

Jay Reti

Title
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Phone
831-459-4271
Email
- jreti@ucsc.edu
Office Hours By appointment

Emeriti

Donald L Brenneis

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Phone
831-459-3855
Email
- brenneis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, Sound, Folklore, Folk Music

Shelly E Errington

Title
- Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-4667 (dept office)
Email
- sherring@ucsc.edu

Alison Galloway

Title
- Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Phone
831-502-7288
Email
- gallow@ucsc.edu

Diane Gifford‑Gonzalez

Title
- Distinguished Research Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-2633 (Office)
Email
- dianegg@ucsc.edu
Office Hours By arrangement
Faculty Areas of Expertise Archaeology, Animal-Human Relationships

Judith A Habicht Mauche

Title
- Professor Emeritus
Phone
408-387-4477
Email
- judith@ucsc.edu
Office Hours Retired!
Faculty Areas of Expertise Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous Peoples, Mineralogy, Material More...

Susan F Harding

Title
- Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-2615
Email
- hard@ucsc.edu
Office Hours by appointment only

Daniel T Linger

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-4684
Email
- touro@ucsc.edu

Olga Najera Ramirez

Title
- Professor Emerita
Phone
831-425-7325
Email
- olga@ucsc.edu
Office Hours by appointment
Faculty Areas of Expertise Chicana/o Studies, Dance, Folklore, Mexico

Triloki N Pandey

Title
- Professor
Phone
831-459-4674
Email
- pandey@ucsc.edu

Lisa B Rofel

Title
- Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-3615
Email
- lrofel@ucsc.edu
Office Hours By appointment

Carolyn Martin Shaw

Title
- Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-4666
Email
- cmclark@ucsc.edu

Adrienne L Zihlman

Title
- Research Professor
Phone
831-459-4467
Email
- azihlman@ucsc.edu