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Phone: (509) 963-3201
E-mail: anthro@cwu.edu
Faculty
Anthropology Faculty | |
 | J. Hope Amason, Assistant Professor Interests & Expertise: Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South |
 | Steve Hackenberger, Professor Interests & Expertise: Cultural ecology, archaeology, cultural resource management, North America, Meso-America and Caribbean cultures |
 | Nicole Jastremski, Assistant Professor 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 Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, primate social behavior and socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, the large-bodied apes, play behavior |
 | Patrick T. McCutcheon, Professor Interests & Expertise: Archaeology, evolutionary theoretical perspectives, fieldwork and laboratory methods, archaeometry, lithic analysis, cultural resource management, North American prehistory |
 | Lene Pedersen, Professor 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 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 |
Lecturers | |
 | Kathleen Barlow, Ph.D. 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: Medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, ethnography, health disparities, global food security, public health, dietary-related disease, indigenous people of Latin America |
 | Interests & Expertise: Biocultural perspectives on the evolution of human behavior and physiology; evolution of middle childhood; behavioral endocrinology; life history theory; evolutionary psychology; evolution of human sexuality; sports physiology; competition; Hong Kong children |
 | 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! |
Emeritus | |
 | John Alsoszatai-Petheo (John.Alsoszatai-Petheo@cwu.edu) Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology and archaeology, paleoanthropology, human osteology, early lithic technology, and the initial peopling of the Americas |
 | 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 Interests & Expertise: Folklore with emphasis on material culture within the African Diaspora in Latin America |
 | William C. Smith (William.Smith@cwu.edu) Interests & Expertise: Archaeology, world Prehistory, museum studies, collections management, and computer applications |
Anthropology News
Take part in the Archaeology Days events at the Wanapum Heritage Center on Oct. 29th & 30th!
Kristen Drury On Forensic AnthropologyAn interview with Anthropology's own Kristen Drury, M.S. is featured today in the Yakima Herald. &nb
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