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Faculty

You can also see our faculty sorted by their research interests on our Research Areas page. Find all faculty office hours for this quarter through our resource sheet.

Core faculty

Mark D Anderson

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- mda@ucsc.edu
Website
- profile and links to papers at academia.edu

Peter F Biehl

Title
- Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies
Campus Email
- pbiehl@ucsc.edu

Melissa L Caldwell

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- lissa@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Russia

Nancy N Chen

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- nchen@ucsc.edu

Jon D Daehnke

Title
- Associate Professor
Campus Email
- jdaehnke@ucsc.edu
Website
- Academia.edu
- Chinook Resilience
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- American Studies

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Title
- Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Campus Email
- lfehrens@ucsc.edu
Website
- UCSC Human Paleogenomics Lab
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Ancient DNA

Mayanthi L Fernando

Title
- Professor of Anthropology
Campus Email
- mfernan3@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Religion and Secularism

Ashwak Hauter

Title
- Assistant Professor
Campus Email
- hauter@ucsc.edu

Carla Hernandez Garavito

Title
- Assistant Professor
Campus Email
- chern133@ucsc.edu
Website
- Academia.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology

Dolly Kikon

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- dkikon@ucsc.edu
Website
- Personal Website
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Ecology

Nidhi A Mahajan

Title
- Assistant Professor
Campus Email
- nmahajan@ucsc.edu

Andrew S Mathews

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- amathews@ucsc.edu
Website
- Home Page
- Trees are Shapeshifters

James Monroe

Title
- Department Chair
Campus Email
- jcmonroe@ucsc.edu
Website
- Published papers and other materials on Academia.edu
- Personal Webpage
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology

Megan Colleen Moodie

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- mmoodie@ucsc.edu
Website
- https://meganmoodie.github.io/
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Ethnography

Vicky M Oelze

Title
- Associate Professor
Campus Email
- voelze@ucsc.edu
Website
- Primate Ecology and Molecular Anthropology (PEMA) Lab website

Erendira Quintana Morales

Title
- Assistant Professor
Campus Email
- equinta6@ucsc.edu
Website
- Research Profile
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology

Renya K Ramirez

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- renya@ucsc.edu

Jay Reti

Title
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Campus Email
- jreti@ucsc.edu

Tsim D Schneider

Title
- Associate Professor
Campus Email
- tdschnei@ucsc.edu
Website
- California Pasts Lab
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology

Savannah Shange

Title
- Associate Professor
Campus Email
- sshangeb@ucsc.edu
Website
- savannahshange.com
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- African American / Black Studies

Anna L Tsing

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- atsing@ucsc.edu
Website
- Matsutake Worlds Live

Lecturers

Alejandra Letelier Kramer

Title
- Lecturer
Campus Email
- alk@ucsc.edu

Annapurna Devi Pandey

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Campus Email
- adpandey@ucsc.edu

Emily A Schach

Title
- Lecturer
Campus Email
- eschach@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology

Emeriti

Donald L Brenneis

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Campus Email
- brenneis@ucsc.edu

Shelly E Errington

Title
- Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- sherring@ucsc.edu

Alison Galloway

Title
- Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Campus Email
- gallow@ucsc.edu

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

Title
- Distinguished Research Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- dianegg@ucsc.edu

Judith A Habicht Mauche

Title
- Professor Emeritus
Campus Email
- judith@ucsc.edu

Susan F Harding

Title
- Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- hard@ucsc.edu

Daniel T Linger

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- touro@ucsc.edu

Olga Najera Ramirez

Title
- Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- olga@ucsc.edu

Triloki N Pandey

Title
- Professor
Campus Email
- pandey@ucsc.edu

Lisa B Rofel

Title
- Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- lrofel@ucsc.edu

Carolyn Martin Shaw

Title
- Professor Emerita
Campus Email
- cmclark@ucsc.edu

Adrienne L Zihlman

Title
- Research Professor
Campus Email
- azihlman@ucsc.edu

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