Faculty (Full-Time)
Areas of Specialization: Migration, incarceration/detention and deportation, citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism and the state, and social movements.
Areas of Specialization: bioarchaeology, paleoanthropology, musculoskeletal biomechanics, locomotion and activity patterns, developmental and functional skeletal morphology, and growth and development.
Web page: https://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/michele-bleuze.
Areas of Specialization: Archeological method and theory, complex societies, Maya ideology, Maya cave archaeology, ceramic analysis.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/james-brady
Areas of Specialization: migration and transnationalism; immigrant communities, rights and activism, memory; state mediated identities.
Web Page: https://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/ester-e-hern%C3%A1ndez
Areas of Specialization: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, dental anthropology, body modification, deviant burials, China, Mongolia, Egypt.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/christine-lee
Areas of Specialization: Forensic anthropology, human osteology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/elizabeth-miller
Areas of Specialization: Urban studies, ethnic studies, race ethnicity; Southeast Asia, Asia-American.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/chorswang-ngin
Areas of Specialization: Physical anthropology, primate behavior, sexual selection, reproduction, dispersal, molecular genetics.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/joyce-parga
Areas of Specialization: Language Documentation and Revitalization. Community-directed Language Auto-documentation. Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Mesoamerican Languages. Zapotecan Languages. Highland Chontal. Anthropological Linguistics. Linguistic Variation. Transnational and Diasporic Language Communities.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/aaron-huey-sonnenschein
Areas of Specialization: Democratic and bureaucratic governance, conservation, and development of coastal and marine environments, mediated transnational and regional public forums, law, wild capture and aquaculture fisheries, British Columbia, west coast U.S., southern Chile.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/kate-sullivan
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology, coastal & island prehistory, historical ecology, environmental archaeology, California, Channel Islands.
Web Page: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/anthro/ren%C3%A9-l-vellanoweth
Faculty (Part-Time)
Areas of Specialization: Medicine, media, critical television studies, popular culture studies, globalization.
Areas of Specialization: Biological anthropology, medical anthropology, epidemiology, evolution and ecology of infectious disease.
Areas of Specialization: Cultural anthropology, Latin America with emphasis on Brazil, African Diaspora, social mobility, healing, ethnobotany.
Areas of Specialization: Prehistoric archaeology of the Great Basin and California; archaeology of historic period Native American sites; hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
Staff
Faculty (Emeritus)
Areas of Specialization: Linguistics, language and culture, sociolinguistics, immigration, psychoanalysis, symbolism; South America.
