Dr. Matthew Altman
Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies

Email: AltmanM@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Applied ethics (including environmental ethics and animal ethics), philosophy of law, history of philosophy

Dr. J. Hope Amason
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies
Director, Museum of Culture and Environment

Email: Hope.Amason@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South

Dr. Clay Arango
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences/Environmental Studies

Email: ArangoC@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Stream ecosystem ecology, nitrogen cycling, human-ecosystem interactions

Dr. Kathleen Barlow
Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: Kathleen.Barlow@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Learning and culture, childhood, psychological anthropology, museum anthropology, symbolism, gender, art and aesthetics, material culture, regional ethnography, Melanesia, Oceania, United States

Dr. April Binder
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Director, Primate Behavior and Ecology Program

Email: BinderA@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Hormones and enivromental changes, specifically focused on reproductive biology and analysis of biological samples in the laboratory

Dr. Kara Gabriel
Professor, Psychology

Email: GabrielK@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Conservation psychology, evolutionary psychology, visitor effects, enrichment, and human-primate interactions

Dr. Ralf Greenwald
Associate Professor, Psychology

Email: greenwar@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Cognitive brain dynamics, event-related potentials, teaching pedagogy, general cognitive psychology, working memory, music cognition, psychology of video gaming

Dr. Nicole Jastremski
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: Nicole.Jastremski@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador

Dr. Mary Lee Jensvold
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: jensvold@faunafoundation.org

Interests & Expertise: Chimpanzee sign language studies, ape behavior, communication, culture, chimpanzee care & enrichment, non-verbal behavior

Dr. Jessica Mayhew
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies
Director, Primate Behavior and Ecology Program

Email: Jessica.Mayhew@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, primate social behavior, play behavior, primate socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, large-bodied apes, Macaca spp.

J.B. Mulcahy, M.S.
Lecturer, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: jb@chimpsanctuarynw.org

Interests & Expertise: Captive primate welfare, environmental enrichment, chimpanzee behavior

Website: Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

Dr. Mary Radeke
Associate Professor, Psychology

Email: Mary.Radeke@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Use of facial cues in emotion and personality assessment, conversation development in young children, personality traits, technology in the classroom, primate communication, eye tracking and Facial Action Unit Coding laboratory

Dr. Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: Rodrigo.Renteria@cwu.edu

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)

Dr. Lori Sheeran
Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies

Email: Lori.Sheeran@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, macaques and their interactions with people, primate conservation, primate social behavior, Asian primates (particularly species in China and Bhutan)

Dr. Lixing Sun
Professor, Biological Sciences 

Email: lixing@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Ecology and evolution of animal behavior (especially communication systems), primatology