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Dean Hall
Phone: (509) 963-3201
E-mail: anthro@cwu.edu
J. Hope Amason, Associate Professor
Director Museum of Culture and Environment
Interests & Expertise: Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South
Marwa Ghazali, Assistant Professor
Interests & Expertise: Critical medical anthropology; global health; political economy; violence; displacement; migration; embodiment; trauma; chronic conditions; Africa, Middle East, and US diasporas.
Interests & Expertise: Cultural ecology, archaeology, cultural resource management, North America, Meso-America and Caribbean cultures
Nicole Jastremski, Assistant Professor
Director Forensic Certificate
Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador
Patrick M. Lubinski, Professor
Interests & Expertise: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, methods, cultural resource management, western North America
Jessica A. Mayhew, Assistant Professor
Director Primate Behavior & Ecology Program
Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, primate social behavior and socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, the large-bodied apes, play behavior
Patrick T. McCutcheon, Professor
Co-Director Cultural and Environmental Resource Management
Interests & Expertise: Archaeology, evolutionary theoretical perspectives, fieldwork and laboratory methods, archaeometry, lithic analysis, cultural resource management, North American prehistory
Lene Pedersen, Professor
Department Chair
Interests & Expertise: Cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, symbolic anthropology, ecological anthropology, ritual, social organization, post-colonialism, southeast Asia (Indonesia), circumpolar north, sub-saharan Africa, natural resource management
Rodrigo F. Rentería-Valencia, Assistant Professor
Interests & Expertise: Environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, visual anthropology, ritual and performance theory, human geography, maritime anthropology, indigenous studies. Ethnographic Specialization: the greater Southwest (including northern Mexico)
Lori K. Sheeran, Professor
(on sabbatical 2019-2020)
Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, Tibetan macaques, tourism, and aging, gibbon behavior, ecology, and conservation, primate conservation, primate social behavior
Interests & Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cultural anthropology, Asian studies, Central Eurasia, China
Interests & Expertise: Learning and culture, childhood, psychological anthropology, museum anthropology, symbolism, gender, art and aesthetics, material culture, regional ethnography, Melanesia, Oceania, United States
Interests & Expertise: Signal systems in non-human animals, particularly vocal communication in non-human primates, bioacoustics and cognitive ethology, focus on the Macaca genus
Interests & Expertise: Forensic science, firearm and tool mark analysis, latent fingerprint comparison and analysis, crime scene reconstruction, shooting reconstruction, gunshot residue analysis, serial number restoration, microscopy, research and teaching
Mary Lee Jensvold, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Interests & Expertise: Chimpanzee sign language studies, ape behavior, communication, culture, chimpanzee care & enrichment, non-verbal behavior
Interests & Expertise: Captive primate welfare, environmental enrichment, chimpanzee behavior (see Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest)
Isabella Sarton Miller, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Interests & Expertise: Bio-cultural anthropology, adaptation to extreme environments: High altitude (Altiplano of Bolivia), cold (Northern territories, Canada, Alaska), hot and humid (Saint Kitts)
Karisa Terry, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Interests & Expertise: Update coming soon!
John Alsoszatai-Petheo
In Memoriam 1949-2019
Tracy J. Andrews (Tracy.Andrews@cwu.edu)
Interests & Expertise: Sociocultural anthropology, Native Americans, ecological and natural resource anthropology, medical anthropology, political ecology, gender, minority and international health issues, ethnicity, identity, and cultural dynamics
Loran E. Cutsinger (Loran.Cutsinger@cwu.edu)
Interests & Expertise: Economic/ecological anthropology, gender studies, cultural anthropology, Caribbean/Latin America, US, Russia, Middle East, Native Americans of the Northern Rockies
Anne S. Denman (Anne.Denman@cwu.edu)
Interests & Expertise: American culture, intercultural issues and gender roles, Brittany, France
Raymond A. Hall
In Memoriam 1949-2018
William C. Smith (William.Smith@cwu.edu)
Interests & Expertise: Archaeology, world Prehistory, museum studies, collections management, and computer applications
Thinking about joining Dr. Jastremski's field school in Ecuador this summer? Well, good news! The de
Apply For The Wilson Archaeology ScholarshipClick here for the application form!
New MCE Exhibit On Civil Rights, Jan. 30-March 16Be sure to stop by the Museum of Culture and Environment to spend some time exploring the new exhibi