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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
