Department of Anthropology

People in the Department

 

For specific administrative roles and contact information please click here.

 

Note: Office hours listed below are for the Fall 2009 semester, and should begin around the second week of classes.

 

Douglass Bailey

Chair, Professor 

Ph.D Cambridge University, 1991

Office: SCI 378, Office Hours: MW 2-4 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-1427, Email: dwbailey@sfsu.edu

Interests: Archaeology, Art and Visual Culture, Sedentism, Theory, The Contemporary Past 

 

 

Peter Biella

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Temple University, 1984

Office: SCI 381, Office Hours: T 10-12 & by appt.

Phone: (415) 405-0536, Email: biella@sfsu.edu

Interests: Visual Anthropology, Multimedia and Education, Epistemology, Theories of Ideology, East African Pastoralism 

 

 

Niccolo Caldararo

Lecturer

Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies, 1999

Office: SCI 356, Office Hours: F 2-4

Phone: (415) 405-2536, Email: cald@sfsu.edu

Interests: Special Research in Artifact Conservation and Analysis, Genetics, Molecular Biology of Humans, Medical Anthropology 

 

 

Mariana Ferreira

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley ,1996

Office: SCI 383, Office Hours: TTH 1215-2

Phone: (415) 405-2467, Email: marianaf@sfsu.edu

Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Ethnomathematics, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples in North and South America, Medical Anthropology 

 

 

Mark Griffin

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1993

Office: SCI 395, Office Hours: MWF 12-1 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-7519 , Email: mgriffin@sfsu.edu

Interests: Skeletal Biology, Dental Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology 

 

 

David Kojan

Lecturer
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002

Office: SCI 357, Office Hours: M 2-3 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 405-2533, Email:kojan@sfsu.edu

Interests: Colonialism, Historiography, Trade and Exchange, Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology, History of Anthropology, Remote Sensing/Digital Mapping, South America, Southeast Asia 

 

 

Gary W. Pahl

Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1976

Office: SCI 271, Office Hours: TTH 2-3

Phone: (415) 338-3004, Email: gwpahl@gmail.com

Archaeology of California, Maya, and China, History of Archaeology, Writing Systems 

 

 

James Quesada

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley ,1994

Office: SCI 385, Office Hours: TTH 115-230, TH 6-7 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-1633, Email: jquesada@sfsu.edu

Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies,
Globalization, Migration and Refugee Studies, Central America 

 

 

Mehdi Rajabzadeh

Lecturer

Office: SCI 356, Office Hours: M 3-4 and after class

Phone: (415) 405-2536, Email: mehdir@sfsu.edu

 

 

C. Sarah Soh

Professor
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1987

Office: SCI 379, Office Hours: TTh 2-250 & by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-2655, Email: soh@sfsu.edu

Cultural Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Social and Cultural Change,
Socialization, Psychological Anthropology, East Asia/ Korea 

 

 

Sheila Tully

Lecturer

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2004

Office: SCI 357, Office Hours: W 1030-12, TH 130-3 & by appt.

Phone: (415) 405-2533, Email: srtully@sfsu.edu

North American Urban Groups, Mesoamerica, Latin America, Issues of Gender, Sexuality and Power, New Social Movements: Theories and Praxis, Visual Representations and Gender, Cultural Constructions of Emotion

 

 

Lucia Volk

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001

Office: HSS 129, Office Hours: W 12-2 & by appt.

Phone: (415) 405-2468, Email: lvolk@sfsu.edu

Cultural Anthropology, Nation-Building after Periods of Violence, Politics of Memory, Muslim-Christian Relations; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Immigrant Health, Health Equity, Social Inequality, Class; Community-based Participatory Research 

 

 

Cynthia Wilczak

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998

Office: SCI 379, Office Hours: MW 210-4 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-2971, Email: cwilczak@sfsu.edu

Skeletal Markers of Occupational Stress, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology,
Sexual Dimorphism & Osteological Indicators of Sex

 

 

Bernard Wong

Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974

Office: SCI 385, Office Hours: TTH 340-440 or by appt.

Phone: (415) 338-7518, Email: bernardw@sfsu.edu

Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Overseas Chinese, Ethnicity,
Kinship and Social Structure, Urban Anthropology, China and East Asia 

 

 

Yoshiko Yamamoto

Treganza Museum Director
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1986

Office: SCI 379A, Office Hours: by appointment only

Phone: (415) 338-1642, Email: yamamoto@sfsu.edu

Material Culture Studies, Traditional Agriculture, Arts and Crafts, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Japan

 

 

Kimberlee Yee

Administrative Office Coordinator

Office: SCI 377

Phone: (415) 338-2046, Email: anthro@sfsu.edu

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