ANTOINE, KATJA - (B.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2007) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology -
BAILEY, CATHERINE ELIZABETH - catherine.bailey@ucla.edu (BA, Anthropology and History (College of William and Mary, 2006)) colonial interaction; material culture change and identity in indigenous society; North American archaeology; household subsistence; the intersection of archaeology, oral history, and local communities
BAKER, ELIZABETH B. - ebb@ucla.edu (B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2002)) Subfield: Archaeology - Central Asian archaeology; Bronze Age economy and trade
Black, Steven Patrick - sblack@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology UCLA 2005; B.A. Ethnomusicology w/ emphasis Jazz Studies, UCLA 2002; B.A. Anthropology UCLA 2002) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology - Language socialization, language ideologies, aesthetics and communication. Interests include AIDS activism, South Africa, Jazz music, creativity, hope.
BROWNING, ANJALI - browning@ucla.edu (PhD Candidate (ABD), UCLA 2005; MA, Latin American Studies, UCLA 2005; BA, Anthropology, UCLA 2002) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Village politics, intra-community conflict and management of disputes in Oaxaca, Mexico. Interests include: indigenous peasants and the State, corruption, narratives and discourses of conflict, political economy of agriculture, social history of commodities, consumption, effects of neoliberalism and migration on social relations, regionalism, ethnic identity, gender, ethnohistory.
Buchbinder, Mara Helene - mbuch@ucla.edu (UCLA, PhD Candidate, 2008 Case Western Reserve University, MA, 2005 Dartmouth College, AB, 2002) Subfield: Psychocultural/Medical and Linguistic Anthropology - Psychological and medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology; family health and wellbeing; children, families, and medical institutions; doctor-patient interaction; pain and communication; newborn genetic screening and genetic subjectivity; illness narratives, language and emotion, and language socialization.
CARTER, ELEANOR - edcarter@ucla.edu
CHERIAN, ABRAHAM T - acherian@ucla.edu
CONLEY, ROBIN - rhconley@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2007 B.A. Anthropology and Linguistics, NYU, 2002) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language and institutions; language and the law; juries; capital punishment; Texas.
CORWIN, ANNA INSOLIO - aicorwin@ucla.edu (MA Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2007; BA French, Smith College 2003) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language and the body, linguistic performance among genderqueer individuals, religion, devotion, and aging
DAVID, SASHA - sashad@ucla.edu (AB Cornell University 2001 Anthropology; MA University of California Los Angeles 2004 Anthropology) Subfield: Socio-Cultural Anthropology with interests in Psychological and Medical Anthropology and Visual Anthropology -
deFelice, Leisa - darwin@ucla.edu (Doctoral candidate (ABD) 2007; MA Anthropology 2004, UCLA; BA Anthropology 2001, UCLA) Subfield: Paleoanthropology - Fossil hominin cranial morphology and functional anatomy; Classificatory methodology; The quantification of complex biological shapes; Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution; The relationship between form and function
DIETLER, JOHN - jdietler@ucla.edu (Doctoral Candidate (ABD) 2004, UCLA; MA Anthropology 2003, UCLA; BA Anthropology 1996, George Washington University) Subfield: Archaeology - Complex Hunter-Gatherers, Emergent Complexity, Craft Specialization, Stone and Shell Tool Technology, California, Florida
Donley, Colleen Marie - cdonley@ucla.edu (BA in Human Biology, Stanford University, 2000; MA in Anthropology, UCLA, 2004; Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, UCLA, 2006) Subfield: Archaeology - Andes, north coast of Chile, Inka, imperial strategies of political control, ancient mining and metallurgy
DOWNS, SARAH - sdowns@ucla.edu (BA, Anthropology, Cal State Fullerton) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Gender, political economy, unions and labor organizing.
DUTHIE, LAURIE - lduthie@ucla.edu (B.A., Michigan 1996; M.A. UC Los Angeles 2002 ) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Political economy, social change, class and identity, workplace ethnography, global capitalism and cultural globalization, urban China
ENG, SERENA J. - (B.A. Anthropology: University of California, Los Angeles, 2005) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - human ecological immunology; compensatory behavioral prophylaxis; life-history theory
ENGELKE, CHRISTOPHER (CRE) ROBERT - crengelke@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2005; B.A. Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2001) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - (Inter)Corporeality, Attunement, Narrative, Selfhood, Language Ideologies, South Asia, Nepal, Darjeeling
ESTES, ANTHONY TODD - manythings1004@yahoo.com
FALKENHAGEN, JESSICA KATHARYN - jfalkenh@ucla.edu (BA Cultural Anthropology, Cornell University. MA Cultural Anthropology, University of Oregon.) Subfield: Sociocultural - Indigenous Rights, Self-determination and social movements, Identity/Ethnicity, Cultural Politics, Transnationalism, the Anthropology of Childhood, Latin America, Kuna Yala, Panama
FISH, ADAM - rawbird@gmail.com (MA, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, 2007) Subfield: cultures of media production -
Flamson, Thomas - tflamson@ucla.edu (Doctoral Candidate: Anthropology, UCLA, 2005; MA: Anthropology, UCLA, 2002; BA: Anthropology, U of Missouri-Columbia, 1999) Subfield: Evolutionary Anthropology - Evolution of humor and aesthetics; emotions, cognition, and decision-making; signaling, communication, and pragmatics; social networks and interpersonal evaluations; Brazil
FRANKENHUIS, WILLEM EDUARD - willem@frankenhuis.org (B.Sc. Psychology, M.Sc. Psychology, M.A. Philosophy. University of Amsterdam) Interface between evolution, development, functional specialization and plasticity in cognition
GARTH, HANNA - hgarth@ucla.edu (MPH, Boston University 2006; BA, Rice University 2005) Subfield: Medical Anthropology - Critical medical anthropology, global health, nutritional anthropology and the anthropology of food, alternative and 'traditional' medicine, health care and the state, gender and queer studies
GEORGE, RACHEL L - rachel.l.george@gmail.com (B.A. Anthropology, NYU, 2005) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language socialization, political consciousness, youth culture
Gervais, Matthew Michel - mgervais@ucla.edu (B.S. Psychobiology, Philosophy and Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton, 2006) Subfield: evolutionary anthropology, cognitive/psychological anthropology, evolutionary psychology - moral psychology, social emotions, ethnic markers, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), internalization, learning biases, cultural self-selection, gene-culture coevolution
GUZMAN, JENNIFER - jrguzman@ucla.edu (M.A. Linguistics (2003) University of California, Davis; B.A. English, Italian (1998) University of Notre Dame) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language socialization, ideologies, maintenance, and change; Indigenous Andean South America, specifically Mapuche communities in Chile
HALEY, KEVIN JOHN - khaley@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2003 B.A. Biology/Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1998) Subfield: Biological/Evolutionary Anthropology - Socio-moral emotions, cooperation, punishment
HARDY, MARY - mhardy@ucla.edu (B.A., Social Sciences, Hampshire College (1993) Concentration: Cross-Cultural Studies of Gender through the Lenses of Anthropology, History, and Film/Video - Thesis Title: "Girl before a Mirror"; M.A., Anthropology, UCLA (1996) Thesis Title: "Bikini Dancers in a Dance of Heterosexual Change"; Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, UCLA (2002)) Ethnography of Heroin Users in a Long-term Follow-up of Gender Differences (Dissertation)
HENDERSON, JESSICA CAMPBELL - jessica.c.henderson@gmail.com
HIRSCH, ELIZABETH JESSICA - ejhirsch@ucla.edu (M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2006; B.A. Psychology, University of Chicago, 2003) Subfield: Medical Anthropology - Health-seeking behavior, the cultural, ethical and political dimensions of clinical trials, global health, reproductive and mental health, local conceptions of biomedicine and diagnostic methods, refugees and asylum seekers, person-centered interviewing.
HOUSE, BAILEY ROGERS - bailey.house@gmail.com
HUFFMAN, HEATHER MARY WILLIHNGANZ - heatherw@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate; M.A. Anthropology, UCLA - 2003; Ed.M. Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education - 1998; B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University - 1992.) Subfield: Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology - Emotion/cognition, human development, U.S. social work, narrative, person-centered ethnography.
HUMPHREY, CLINTON DEAN - clintcatalina@ucla.edu (M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 2005; B.A. Anthropology, CSU Long Beach, 2001) Subfield: Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology -
ISHIZUKA, KAREN LEE - karenishizuka@hotmail.com
JACKSON, JONATHAN C. - jacksonj@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles 2003 M.A. Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles 2001 B.A. Anthropology University of California, Irvine 1996 ) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Dissertation: Death Rites and the Social Worth of Persons in Rural and Urban Shaanxi, The People's Republic of China 2003-2005 Masters: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Persecution of the Sino-Vietnamese
JOHNSON, ILANA - ilanaj@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan 2000, M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2003) Subfield: Archaeology - Andean South America, Formative Titicaca Basin, North Coast of Peru, rise of complex societies, household studies. Dissertation: Households and Urbanism at the Late Moche Period (AD 600-900) site of Pampa Grande, Lambayeque Valley, Peru
KAZEMIPOUR, WHITNEY WHITE - wlwhite@ucla.edu (MA, Anthropology, UCLA; AB, Intellectual/Cultural History, Princeton) Subfield: Psychocultural - Iranian-American immigrants; Psychocultral Anthropology; Culture Change; Ngabe Baha'i Community in Panama
Kim, Mi Kyung - mikkim@ucla.edu (Ph.D. candidate; M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2002; B.S. Anthropology, UCLA 1996) Subfield: Psychocultural and medical anthropology - Local models and experiences of health and body/embodiment, martial arts, Chinese medicine, China.
KLINE, MICHELLE A. - skliner@gmail.com Cultural transmission, especially across group boundaries; patterns of transmission as evidenced in the material culture record; demographic factors influencing cultural complexity; Oceania and Fiji.
LE, STEPHEN - stephen.le@ucla.edu (BA Mathematics, University of Ottawa, 1997; MA International Relations, Johns Hopkins, 2003) Subfield: biological - evolutionary game theory, prisoner's dilemma, cooperation, time preferences, trust, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam
LEVINE, ABIGAIL RUTH - abigail.levine@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology, UCLA 2007; M.A. Anthropological Sciences, Stanford 2005; B.A. Anthropological Sciences, Stanford 2005) Subfield: Archaeology - highland Andean archaeology (Lake Titicaca basin), evolutionary theory for the development of economic specialization, ceramic analysis, architectural correlates of social change, multivariate statistics
Lichtenstein, Jena Barchas - jenali@ucla.edu (B.A., Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Chicago (2005)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language ideologies; language shift and revitalization; language socialization; indigenous communities in Mexico; food, gender, and authenticity; gendering of labor and gendering of language
LOYD, HEATHER MICHELE - hloyd@ucla.edu (B.A. Sociology, UCLA, 1997, M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2005) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language socialization, language ideologies, moral discourse, expressive aesthetics, anthropology of childhood, visual anthropology (Southern Italy)
LUVAAS, BRENT - luvaas@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidacy Anthropology, UCLA 2005. M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2004. B.A. Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz 1998.) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Anthropology of media, visual anthropology, practice theory, youth contributions to cultural production, new media and mediated subjectivities, transnational market dynamics and globalization, United States and Indonesia.
MALEK, AMY - amymalek@ucla.edu (BA, Emory University, 2003; MA, New York University, 2005) Subfield: Socio-Cultural Anthropology - visual anthropology, film/tv/media, representation, diaspora, identity, Middle East/Iran
Marti, F. Alethea - fmarti@ucla.edu (BA Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley 2002; MA Anthropology, UCLA 2007.) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - gender, language socialization, small entrepreneurs, economic morality, children, adolescence, gossip, logic, peer socialization through assessments. Zinacantec Maya, Chiapas, urban Mexico.
Mathew, Sarah G. - smathew@ucla.edu (A.B. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2003) Subfield: Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology - Evolution of cooperation; intergroup aggression and warfare in the context of cooperation in large groups; cultural evolution
Moya, Cristina - cmoya@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology and Psychology, UC Berkeley 2003; M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2006) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Social group categorization. Coalitional and ethnic psychology.
Mulet, S. Megan - smmulet@ucla.edu (B.A. in Anthropology, Cornell University; M.A. in Demography, U.C. Berkeley) Subfield: sociocultural and psychological anthropology - culture of Burning Man and experiences of participants, kinship and other relationships, mixed methods, Nepal
OLMSTED, JOHN ELDON - jolmsted@ucla.edu
ORLANDO, ANGELA MARIE - angelamarie@ucla.edu (B.A. University of Arizona 2003 - Anthropology M.A. New Mexico State University 2006 - Anthropology) Subfield: Sociocultural anthropology and archaeology: Aesthetics, modern material culture, Los Angeles households, highland Peru and Lima, tourism, globalization, creativity, art and identity transmission, Quechua -
Panchanathan, Karthik - buddha@ucla.edu
PARK, REBEKAH NOA - rebekahpark@gmail.com (M.A. Universiteit van Amsterdam, B.A. Northwestern University) Subfield: Medical Anthropology - Applied and Critical Anthropology, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, Violence, Memory, Argentina
PASTOR DE MARIA Y CAMPOS, CAMILA - cpastor@ucla.edu (1. Licenciatura en Etnologia, Escuela Nacional de Antropolgia e Historia, Mexico D.F. 2001 2. Master of Arts in Lingustic Anthropology, UCLA 2004 3. PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology UCLA) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Topics: class/stratification/hierarchy, migration, nationalism/transnationalism Perspectives: practice theory, postcolonial and historic anthropology, urban anthropology political economy Regions:Arab World/ Middle East/ Islamic world, Latin America
PERREAULT, CHARLES - cperreault@ucla.edu (2007 M.Sc. in Anthropology Universite de Montreal. 2004 B.Sc. in Anthropology Universite de Montreal. ) Subfield: Archaeology; Eurasian Paleolithic, Cultural Transmission and Evolution, Cladistics -
PITA LOOR, KARLA ISABEL - kpitaloo@ucla.edu (B.A., Duke University, 2000) Subfield: Socio-cultural anthropology -
Pritzker, Sonya E. - pritzker@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology UCLA 2006 M.S. Oriental Medicine Meiji College 2002, B.S. Psychology UC Santa Cruz 1997) Subfield: psychocultural/medical, linguistic - Language socialization and translation ideologies in Chinese Medicine, Chinese medical treatment for emotional disorders
RIOS, CLARICE M. M. - clarice@ucla.edu (M.A., University of Chicago, 2001; B.A., Psychology, Pontificia Universidade Catolica RJ, 1995 ) Subfield: Psychological Anthropology - Psychological Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, Transcultural Psychiatry, Self and Narrative, Social Imaginary, Religion, Kardecism, Brazil
ROTHENBERG, JANELL - jrothenberg@ucla.edu (BA, Hampshire College 2001; MA, Near Eastern Studies, New York University 2003) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - large-container ports and port cities, political-economy, urban planning and development, seascapes, coastal change and maritime anthropology, security analysis and policy, gender, the Middle East and North Africa
SANDOVAL ZAVALA, ZANNIE VANESSA - zsandov@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2002; A.B. Anthropology, Harvard University 1998) Subfield: Archaeology - Pre-modern empires, sociopolitical evolution, mortuary analysis; Andean South America Dissertation: Inca Administration of the Peruvian North Coast. A View from Cerro Colorado.
SHARP, ELLEN - ellensharp@ucla.edu (MA Modern Studies, UW-Milwaukee BA Women's Studies, Brown University) Subfield: sociocultural anthropology - Anthropology of Latin America, especially Central America and Guatemala; history of anthropology; the anthropology of death; feminist theory
SHOHET, MERAV - mshohet@ucla.edu (MA, University of California, Los Angeles 2004; AB Social Studies, Harvard University 1998) Subfield: Psycho-cultural and Linguistic Anthropology - Sacrifice and Virtue; Self and Narrative; History and Memory; Recovery and Healing; Language Socialization; Vietnam; Anorexia; Vietnamese Americans
SNYDER, JEFFREY KEITH - jksnyder@ucla.edu (MA - Wm & Mary, Experimental Psychology, 2003 BA - TAMU-CC, Psychology, 2001) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Human rank and conflict, women's mate preferences and reproductive health in varying environmnts
Strickland, Michael - mstrickland@ucla.edu Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Close interpersonal relationships, material and social support, youth studies, social change and political economy, China
Tulbert, Eve Louise - eve.tulbert@gmail.com Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - anthropology of childhood and of schooling, language socialization and knowledge of the environment, maps and mapmaking, verbal art, multi-modal and syncretic literacies, youth video making, visual anthropology. Also, environmental racism, land rights, industrial pollution, the persistence of hope.
VERNON, MURIEL - murielv1@hotmail.com (B.A. Cultural Anthropology & minor degree LGBT Studies UCLA 2005; M.A.,UCSB 2007) Subfield: socio-cultural anthropology, medical anthropology - gender and sexuality, transgender studies, social construction of gender, social construction of medicine, Women's Studies, LGBT Studies,U.S.
WU, XIAOLEI - xlwu@ucla.edu Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - (MA Texas A&M Univ 2002) cultural globalization, transnational migration, family and kinship, Chinese society.
Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth - keyarris@ucla.edu (MPH, MA Latin American Studies, UCLA, 2004; BA Sociology & Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College, 1994.) Subfield: Medical and Psychological Anthropology - Health and mental health in Latin America and U.S. Latino communities; gender, family, and household impacts on expressions of health and well-being/pain and illness.
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