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Staff

Libby Azevedo
Title: Administrative Support Cordinator (ASC)
Email: libby.azevedo[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5171
Office: FO3-305
Office Hours: M-F 8am-4pm

Faculty

Jayne Howell
Title: Professor
Email: jayne.howell[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5192
Office: FO3-312
Office Hours: Tu 2-3:45pm and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Education and employment, gender, migration, urban anthropology, ethnohistory, tourism, Mexico; Mexico, Latin America.
Alexandra Jaffe
Title: Professor
Email: ajaffe[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2594
Office: PSY-415
Office Hours: On Sabbatical
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: wklein[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8828
Office: PSY-221
Office Hours: Tu 1-4pm and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Linguistic anthropology, ethnography of communication, language socialization, narrative, language ideology; Japan, Northern India, United States.
Daniel O. Larson
Title: Professor
Email: daniel.larson[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5187
Office: F05-212
Office Hours: M W 10-11am and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Archaeology, cultural ecology, evolutionary theory, research design, ethnohistory, climatic change; Western North America, Ireland.
Barbara LeMaster
Title: Chair & Professor
Email: Barbara.LeMaster[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5171
Office: F03-303
Office Hours: Th 10-10:50am
Research and Teaching Focus: Ethnicity and gender, appied 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: Associate Professor
Email: carl.lipo[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2393
Office: PH1-204
Office Hours: W 2-4pm
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 & Graduate Advisor
Email: ron.loewe[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5034
Office: F03-324
Office Hours: W 11am-1pm, Th 6-8pm
Research and Teaching Focus: Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, Maya language, culture and politics, tourism; Mexico, Latin America.
Hector Neff
Title: Professor
Email: hneff[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4468
Office: LA5-159
Office Hours: See blog
Research and Teaching Focus: Archaeology, archaeometry, evolutionary theory, origins of agriculture, quantitative methods; Mesoamerica, Southwest United States, South America.
Karen Quintiliani
Title: Associate Professor
Email: kquintil[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1301
Office: F03-322
Office Hours: Th 12-2pm
Research and Teaching Focus: Urban and applied anthropology, social welfare, public policy, gender and sexuality; North America, Southeast Asia.
Steven Rousso-Schindler
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: sschindl[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8179
Office: PSY-313
Office Hours: M 12:30-2:30pm
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
Email: gscott[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5186
Office: F03-314
Office Hours: S 12-1pm W 6-7pm
Research and Teaching Focus: Anthropology and literature, cultural diversity, anthropology of religion, urban anthropology; South Asia and United States.
R. Scott Wilson
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: scott.wilson[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5172
Office: F03-318
Office Hours: Tu Th 2-3pm
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 & Undergraduate Advisor
Email: dr.youngowl[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5179
Office: FO3-316
Office Hours:

M 9-9:50am, W 4-4:50pm, and by appointment

Undergraduate advising: M 4-5pm & 6:50-7:10pm, Tu 11am-1pm, W 10-11am & 6:50-7:10pm, Th 11am-1pm

SUMMER Undergraduate advising:

May 25-July 8, 2012 by email. Beginning July 9, in person office hours will be held Mondays 4-6; and Tuesdays 1-3 (with the exceptions of July 23 and 24); and July 9 - beginning of Fall 2012 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

Denise Cucurny
Title: Professor
Email: denise.cucurny[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5179
Office: F03-316
Office Hours: Tu Th 9:30-11am
Research and Teaching Focus: Cross-cultural healing, primate behavior & anatomy, human variation & evolution.
Thomas J Douglas
Title: Professor
Email: tjdouglas[at]earthlink.net
Phone: (562) 985-5170
Office: PSY-315
Office Hours: M 10-11am, W 5:45-6:45pm and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Urban and economic anthropology, religion, culture; California, Washington, Cambodian immigrants.
Hilarie Kelly
Title: Professor
Email: hkelly[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1916
Office: F05-231
Office Hours: TBA
Research and Teaching Focus: Refugees, visual culture, culture and health, disability, aging, Islam, applied/development anthropology, psychological anthropology, adolescence, self and identity; Africa..
Linda D Light
Title: Professor
Email: linda.light[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5189
Office: LA5-161
Office Hours: Tu Th 11am-12:30pm and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Guatemalan Maya in Los Angeles, language, gender/ethnicity.
Kaoru Oguri
Title: Professor
Email: kaoru_oguri[at]yahoo.com
Phone: (562) 985-4515
Office: LA5-269
Office Hours: M Th 10:45-11:15am, Tu 11am-12:30pm & 6:30-7pm and by appointment
Research and Teaching Focus: Ethnicity, gender, urban anthropology, expressive culture, Asian-American studies; Japan, China, North America.
Namika Raby
Title: Professor
Email: namika.raby[at]csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-5186
Office: F03-314
Office Hours: M W 12-1pm and by appointment
Website http://namikaraby.com/
Research and Teaching Focus: Development anthropology, cross-cultural community management of water resources, gender & development; Southeast Asia, United States.
Sachiko Sakia
Title: Lecturer
Email: sachikosak[at]gmail.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1916
Office: F05-231
Office Hours: Tu Th 9:30-10:30, or 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: kdixon[at]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

Research and Teaching Focus: Sociocultural dynamics, economic anthropology, political anthropology; Caribbean, Latin America.

Robert Harman

Research and Teaching Focus: Intercultural communication, applied anthropology, aging; Karen Maya, Mesoamerica, Thailand.

Euguene Ruyle

Email: eruyle[at]csulb.edu
Research and Teaching Focus: Intercultural communication, applied anthropology, aging; Karen Maya, Mesoamerica, Thailand.