Faculty and Staff
| Title: | Department Chair |
| Email: | Karen.Quintiliani@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-1301 |
| Office: | F03-303 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Mon 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Tues 2:00pm 3:00pm Wed 1:00pm – 2:00pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Urban and applied anthropology, social welfare, public policy, gender and sexuality; North America, Southeast Asia. |
Mitra Baghdadi
| Title: | Department Coordinator |
| Email: | Mitra.Baghdadi@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5171 |
| Office: | FO3-305 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Mon-Fri 9:00am – 5:00pm |
Faculty
Jayne Howell
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Jayne.Howell@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5192 |
| Office: | FO3-312 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Mon 2:30pm – 3:30 pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Education and employment, gender, migration, urban anthropology, ethnohistory, tourism, Mexico; Mexico, Latin America |
Alexandra Jaffe
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Alexandra.Jaffe@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-2594 |
| Office: | PSY-415 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | By appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Minority language planning and politics, language ideology, anthropology and education, bilingual education, language in the media, orthography and transcription, sociolinguistics |
Wendy Klein
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Email: | W.Klein@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-8828 |
| Office: | PSY-221 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Wed 1:30pm – 3:00pmThurs 3:00pm – 5:00pm & by appointment
Undergraduate Advisor for Linguistics – additional hours for advising |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Linguistic anthropology, ethnography of communication, language socialization, narrative, language ideology; Japan, Northern India, United States |
Barbara LeMaster
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Barbara.LeMaster@csulb.edu |
| Website: | www.csulb.edu/~lemaster/ |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5171 |
| Office: | F03-322 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | By appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Ethnicity and gender, applied linguistics, deaf languages and culture, interpreting and translation, intercultural communication, applied anthropology, anthropology and education, urban anthropology, medical anthropology; Ireland, Southern California |
Carl P. Lipo
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Carl.Lipo@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-2393 |
| Office: | PH1-204 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | By appointment |
| Website: | http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo |
| Blog: | http://www.evobeach.com |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Archaeological method and theory, evolutionary theory, complex societies, cultural elaboration, cultural transmission, simulation, ceramics, community structure, stylistic variability, seriation, quantitative methods; Eastern North America, Oceania |
Ron Loewe
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Ronald.Loewe@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5034 |
| Office: | F03-324 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | By appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, Maya language, culture and politics, tourism; Mexico, Latin America |
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Hector.Neff@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-4468 |
| Office: | PH2-210 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | On Leave |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Archaeology, archaeometry, evolutionary theory, origins of agriculture, quantitative methods; Mesoamerica, Southwest United States, South America |
Steven Rousso-Schindler
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Email: | Steven.Rousso-Schindler@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-8179 |
| Office: | FO3-320 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Wed 12:30pm – 2:00pm, 3:30pm – 4:00pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Visual anthropology and anthropology of Palestine/Israel, national narrative theory, narrative theory, demography, Middle East anthropology, medical anthropology; Israel/Palestine, United States, rural China |
George Scott
| Title: | Associate Professor in the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP) |
| Email: | George.Scott@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5186 |
| Office: | F03-314 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | By appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Anthropology and literature, cultural diversity, anthropology of religion, urban anthropology; South Asia and United States |
R. Scott Wilson
| Title: | Associate Professor & Undergraduate Advisor |
| Email: | Scott.Wilson@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5172 |
| Office: | F03-318 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015 | By appointment |
| Website: | http://www.anthropologyandfilm.net |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Race and ethnicity, transnational media, cultural production; Taiwan, global East Asia |
Marcus Young Owl
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Dr.YoungOwl@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5179 |
| Office: | FO3-316 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Mon/Thur 11:00am – 12:00pmWed 5:00pm – 6:00pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Primate anatomy and comparative biology, evolutionary theory, anatomical lexicon, history of physical anthropology and anatomy, science education |
Part-time, Full-time Temporary Faculty
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Denise.Cucurny@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5189 |
| Office: | LA5-159 |
| Office Hours Spring 2015: | Tues/Thurs 12:30pm – 2:00pm & by appointment & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Cross-cultural healing, primate behavior & anatomy, human variation & evolution |
Thomas J Douglas
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | tjdouglas@earthlink.net |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5170 |
| Office: | PSY-315 |
| Office Hours Fall 2014: | Mon/Wed 10:00 – 11:00 amWed/Th 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Urban and economic anthropology, religion, culture; California, Washington, Cambodian immigrants |
Linda D Light
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Linda.Light@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5189 |
| Office: | LA5-159 |
| Office Hours Fall 2014: | Tu/Th 9:30 am – 10:30 am,2:30 pm – 3:30 pm & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Guatemalan Maya in Los Angeles, language, gender/ethnicity |
Kaoru Oguri
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Kaoru_Oguri@hotmail.com |
| Phone: | (562) 985-4515 |
| Office: | LA5-269 |
| Office Hours Fall 2014: | Mon 12:15 pm – 1:15 pmWed 9:15 am – 9:45 am,1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Th 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Ethnicity, gender, urban anthropology, expressive culture, Asian-American studies; Japan, China, North America |
Namika Raby
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Namika.Raby@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5186 |
| Office: | F03-314 |
| Office Hours Fall 2014: | Mon/Wed 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm & by appointment & via e-mail |
| Website | http://namikaraby.com/ |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Development anthropology, cross-cultural community management of water resources, gender & development; Southeast Asia, United States |
Sachiko Sakai
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Sachikosak@gmail.com |
| Phone: | (562) 985-1916 |
| Office: | FO5-230 |
| Office Hours Fall 2014: | Tu/W 10:00 am – 11:00 am & by appointment |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Archaeology of Southwest United States, ceramic production and exchange, ceramic source study, luminescence dating, chemical compositional analysis, evolutionary archaeology, field school near the Grand Canyon |
Emeriti Faculty
Keith Dixon
| Email: | Keith.Dixon@csulb.edu |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Ethnohistory, cultural resources conservation, collections curation, ethics, research design, and report review in cultural resources management; Archaeology of Orange County and southern Los Angeles County, central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Southwest United States |
James R Gregory
| Email: | James.Gregory@csulb.edu |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Sociocultural dynamics, economic anthropology, political anthropology; Caribbean, Latin America |
Robert Harman
| Email: | Robert.Harman@csulb.edu |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Intercultural communication, applied anthropology, aging; Karen Maya, Mesoamerica, Thailand |
Daniel O. Larson
| Email: | Daniel.Larson@csulb.edu |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Archaeology, cultural ecology, evolutionary theory, research design, ethnohistory, climatic change; Western North America, Ireland |
Eugene Ruyle
| Email: | Eugene.Ruyle@csulb.edu |
| Research and Teaching Focus: | Intercultural communication, applied anthropology, aging; Karen Maya, Mesoamerica, Thailand |
