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Phone: 509-963-2075
Email: Patrick.McCutcheon@cwu.edu

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Phone: 509-963-3699
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Faculty

Image of Hope Amason Amason, J. Hope (Program Faculty,  Anthropology)
Research interests: Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies; Appalachia, US South.
Image of Clay Arango kneeling at a stream Arango, Clay (Program Faculty, Biological Sciences)
Research interests: Stream ecology; Forest-stream connectivity; Human role in stream nutrient cycling

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Bowen, John (Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: Human geography; Economic development; Air transportation; Global production networks; Quantitative methods; Southeast Asia

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Delgado, Elvin (Affiliate Faculty, Geography)
Research interests: Energy and Capitalism, Political Economy and Nature, Critical Resource Geography and Political Ecology

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Hackenberger, Steven (Program Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Archaeology; Paleoecology; Cultural resource management; CWU NAGPRA, National Park Service Kennewick studies; Archaeological repositories; Museum education; Columbia Plateau; Eastern Caribbean Islands

 

Henebry-DeLeon, Lourdes (Affiliate Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Forensic Anthropology; NAGPRA

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Hickey, Robert (Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: GIS; Remote Sensing; Environmental analysis; Economic Geology; Australia
Image of Nicole Jastremski Jastremski, Nicole (Program Faculty, Anthropology)
Research interests: Biological anthropology, Forensic anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Mortuary analysis, Paleopathology, Taphonomy, Identity formation, Ecuador

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Lillquist, Karl (Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: Geomorphology; Soils; Watersheds; Arid Environments; Mountain Environments; Environmental Change; Western North America

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Lipton, Jennifer (Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: Cultural and political ecology; Landscape ecology; Geospatial techniques; conservation; Climate change; Mountain environments; Latin America

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Lubinski, Patrick (Program Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Archaeology; Zooarchaeology; CRM; Hunting strategies; Mammalian and fish biogeography; Mammoths; Washington state; Rocky Mountains
Image of Bre MacInnes infront of water with mountains in the background MacInnes, Bre (Affiliate Faculty, Geological Sciences)
Research interests: Depositional stratigraphy, environments, and processes; coastal landforms; grain-size analysis

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McCutcheon, Patrick (Co-Director, Program Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Archaeology; Geoarchaeology; CRM; Cultural and natural resource management in Mount Rainier National Park; Archaeological inventory on Saddle Mountains BLM lands; Mississippi River Valley

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McMullin-Messier, Pamela (Program Faculty, Sociology)
Research interests: Demography, Collective Action, Environmental Justice, Hazards, and Gender

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Pease, Michael (Program Faculty, Geography)
Research interests: Water resource management; Resource allocations; Environmental policy

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Pedersen, Lene (Program Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Cultural anthropology: Symbolic, ecological and visual anthropology; Role of traditional institutions in a globalizing world; Resource management; Indigenous rights; Gender
Image of Sterling Quinn Quinn, Sterling (Program Faculty, Geography)
Research interests: GIS; Critical cartography; Geographies of information production; Latin America
Image of Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia standing infront of a blackboard Rentería-Valencia, Rodrigo (Program Faculty, Anthropology)
Research interests: Cultural anthropology; Ecological and environmental anthropology; Indigenous studies; Semiotics; Political ecology; Human geography; Community, Neoliberalism and conservation; Nonhuman and multispecies studies; Mexico and the Greater Southwest

Right side profile of Craig Revels with sunglasses thoughfully looking into the landscape

Revels, Craig (Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: Cultural geography; Historical geography; Cultural and environmental impacts of resource extraction and production; Latin America, American West

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Sheeran, Lori (Affiliate Faculty, Anthropology) 
Research interests: Biological anthropology; Primate ecology; Interdisciplinary research in Yellow Mountains World Heritage Site China (with Psychology and Biology)
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Sipic, Toni (Program Faculty, Economics)
Research interests: Environmental economics; Political economy; Industrial organization
 

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Walsh, Megan (Co-Director, Program Faculty, Geography) 
Research interests: Biogeography; Paleoecology; Fire history of the Pacific Northwest; Past human-environment interactions; Climate change; Oregon; Washington; Mexico; Belize

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Wassell, Charles (Affiliate Faculty, Economics) 
Research interests: Economics; Mathematical modeling of economic issues with policy implications

 

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