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Education and employment, gender, migration, urban anthropology, ethnohistory, tourism, Mexico; Mexico, Latin America
jhowell@csulb.edu
Minority language planning and politics, language ideology, anthropology and education, bilingual education, language in the media, orthography and transcription, sociolinguistics; Corsica. http://www.csulb.edu/depts/ling/f_jaffe.php, ajaffe@csulb.edu
Language socialization, language ideology, narrative and the discursive construction of immigrant experience, language and religion, language and identification; Indian immigrant communities in the U.S.; Punjabi Sikhs. wklein@csulb.edu
Archaeology, cultural ecology, evolutionary theory, research design, ethnohistory, climatic change; Western North America, Ireland,
larson@csulb.edu
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, www.csulb.edu/~lemaster/, http://www.csulb.edu/depts/ling/f_lemaster.php
lemaster@csulb.edu
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, www.csulb.edu/~clipo/
clipo@csulb.edu
Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, Maya language, culture and politics, tourism; Mexico, Latin America
rloewe@csulb.edu
Archaeology, archaeometry, evolutionary theory, origins of agriculture, quantitative methods; Mesoamerica, Southwest US, South America, www.csulb.edu/~hneff/
hneff@csulb.edu
Urban and applied anthropology, social welfare, public policy, gender and sexuality; North America, SE Asia
kquintil@csulb.edu
Visual anthropology, Palestine/Israel, medical anthropology, national narratives, narrative theory, demography, Middle East anthropology, rural China sschindl@csulb.edu
Anthropology and literature, cultural diversity, anthropology of religion, urban anthropology; South Asia and US
gscott@csulb.edu
Race and ethnicity, transnational media, cultural production; Taiwan, global East Asia
Primate anatomy, comparative biology, mammalian physiological ecology, evolutionary theory, Archonta: Primates, Chiroptera
youngowl@csulb.edu
J. Diego Vigil, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine-USA. His education includes Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. He just completed a one year of teaching as a visiting professor at Harvard in the Graduate School of Education. Prior to that he taught at UCLA for six years and USC for fourteen years. His expertise is in urban, psychology, socialization and educational anthropology, Mexico and U.S. Southwest ethnohistory. Some of his books are: From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican American Culture, Personas Mexicanas: Chicano High Schoolers in a Changing Los Angeles, Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California, A Rainbow of Gangs: A Cross-Cultural Study Street Youth in Los Angeles. He also acts as a consultant, expert witness, in cultural defense in gang related homicides. He was Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, Chairman, The National Center for Gang Policy, Director of Ethnic Studies, University of Southern California.
Ethnography of communication, applied anthropology, American Indian languageas and societies, languages and culture; Great Basin, US Southwest, Cambodia
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 U.S.
Sociocultural dynamics, economic anthropology, political anthropology; Caribbean, Latin America
Intercultural communication, applied anthropology, aging; Karen Maya, Mesoamerica, Thailand.
Ethnohistory, Siberian and Native American cultures.
Marxism, political economy; Japan, China
Cross-cultural healing, primate behavior & anatomy, human variation & evolution ; global dcucurny@csulb.edu
Urban and economic anth, religion, culture; California, Washington, Cammbodian Immigrants tjdouglas@earthlink.net
Comparative symbolic systems, aesthetic experience, religion, symbol, myth, ritual, modes of thought, culture and analogy, psychological/cognitive anthropology, religion of Nepal; South Asia echarrison11@aol.com
Gender, transnationalism, diaspora and refugees, visual culture, culture and health, disability, aging.; Africa, Islam, applied/development anthropology, psychological anthropology, adolescence, self and identity. hkelly@csulb.edu
Guatemalan Maya in Los Angeles, language and gender/ethnicity; llight2@csulb.edu
Ethnicity, gender, urban anth, expressive culture, Asian American studies; Japan, China, N America kaoru_oguri@yahoo.com
Development anth, cross cultural community management of water resources, gender & development; South Asia, South East Asia, US nraby@csulb.edu
