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Department of Anthropology                  

 

 People in Department

Name Contact Info Interests
Professors    
Biella, Peter
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Temple University, 1984
Office:   SCI 388  
Phone:   (415) 405-0536
E-mail:   biella@sfsu.edu
• Visual Anthropology
• Multimedia and Education
• Epistemology
• Theories of Ideology
• East African Pastoralism 
 
Bruhns, Karen
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1967
(Teaches only in the Spring Semester)
Office:   SCI 385  
Phone:   (415) 338-1435
E-mail:   kbruhns@sfsu.edu
• Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Intermediate Area
• Andean South America
• Iconography
• Gender Studies in Archaeology 

Davis, Lee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988
(Director of the California Studies Program)

Office:   SCI 230  
Phone:   (415) 338-6583
E-mail:   davislee@sfsu.edu
• Native North Americans
• California Ethnography and Ethnology

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

Office:   SCI 383  
Phone:   (415) 405-2467
E-mail:   marianaf@sfsu.edu
• Cultural Anthropology
• Ethnomathematics
• Human Rights
• Indigenous Peoples in North and South America
• Medical Anthropology 
 

Griffin, Mark
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1993

Office:   SCI 395  
Phone:   (415) 338-7519
E-mail:   mgriffin@sfsu.edu
• Skeletal Biology
• Dental Anthropology
• Forensic Anthropology 

Herdt, Gilbert
Professor
Ph.D., Australian National University, 1978
(Director of the Human Sexuality Studies)

Office:   BH 333  
Phone:   (415) 405-3574
E-mail:   gherdt@sfsu.edu
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Psychological Anthropology
• Anthropology of Sexuality
• Pacific Islands (New Guinea), US 

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

Office:   SCI 271  
Phone:   (415) 338-3004
E-mail:   gwpahl@gmail.com
• Archaeology of California, Maya, and China
• History of Archaeology
• Writing Systems 

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

Office:   SCI 378  
Phone:   (415) 338-1633
E-mail:   jquesada@sfsu.edu
• Cultural Anthropology
• Medical Anthropology
• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Globalization
• Migration and Refugee Studies
• Central America 
 

Soh, Chunghee Sarah
Professor
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1987

 

Office:   SCI 379  
Phone:   (415) 338-2655
E-mail:   soh@sfsu.edu
• Cultural Anthropology
• Gender and Sexuality
• Social and Cultural Change
• Socialization
• Psychological Anthropology
• East Asia/ Korea 
 

Volk, Lucia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001

Office:   SCI 383  
Phone:   (415) 405-2468
E-mail:    lvolk@sfsu.edu
• Cultural Anthropology
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Social Memory
• Politics and History
• State-Society Relations
• Globalization 
 
Wilczak, Cynthia
(new faculty starting Fall 2007)

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998

 

Office:   SCI   
Phone:    (415) 338-2971
E-mail:   cwilczak@sfsu.edu
• Skeletal Markers of Occupational Stress
• Bioarchaeology
• Paleopathology
• Sexual Dimorphism & Osteological Indicators of Sex

Wong, Bernard
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974
(Teaches only in the Fall Semester)

 

Office:   SCI 385  
Phone:   (415) 338-7518
E-mail:   bernardw@sfsu.edu
• Cultural Anthropology
• Anthropological Theory
• Overseas Chinese
• Ethnicity
• Kinship and Social Structure
• Urban Anthropology
• China and East Asia 
 
Lecturers    

Anderson, Thor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996

 

Office:   SCI 229  
Phone:   (415) 338-7497
E-mail:   thor@sfsu.edu
• Mesoamerica (Highland Chiapas)
• Europe (Basque Country)
• Visual Anthropology
• Ritual and Religion
• History and Anthropology
• Environmental Planning
• Alcohol, Drugs, and Urban Anthropology
 

Caldararo, Niccolo

Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies, 1999

 

Office:   SCI 229  
Phone:   (415) 338-7497
E-mail:   cald@sfsu.edu
• Special Research in Artifact Conservation and Analysis
• Genetics
• Molecular Biology of Humans
• Medical Anthropology 

Kojan, David

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

 

Office:   SCI 385  
Phone:   (415) 338-1435
E-mail:   kojan@sfsu.edu
• Colonialism
• Historiography
• Trade and Exchange
• Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology
• History of Anthropology
• Remote Sensing/Digital Mapping
• South America
• Southeast Asia 
Raymond, David
Office:   SCI 231  
Phone:   (415) 405-0580
E-mail:   draymond@sfsu.edu
 

Tully, Sheila

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2004

 

Office:   SCI 229  
Phone:   (415) 338-7497
E-mail:   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
 
STAFF    

Kimberlee Yee 

(Academic Program Coordinator)

Office:   SCI 377  
Phone:   (415) 338-2046
E-mail:   anthro@sfsu.edu
 

Yamamoto, Yoshiko

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1986
(Director of the Adan E. Treganza Anthropology Museum)

Office:   SCI 381  
Phone:   (415) 338-1642
E-mail:   yamamoto@sfsu.edu
• Material Culture Studies
• Traditional Agriculture
• Arts and Crafts
• Southeast Asia
• Oceania
• Japan
 
     

 

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