Anthropology and Museum Studies
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Full-time Faculty
Hope Amason (PhD, cultural anthropology) Museum Studies Minor Coordinator. Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South; Hope.Amason@cwu.edu
Steven Hackenberger (PhD, archaeology) Cultural ecology, cultural resource management, North America, Meso-America and Caribbean cultures; Steven.Hackenberger@cwu.edu
Nicole Jastremski (PhD, biological anthropology) Forensics Certificate Program Coordinator. Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador; Nicole.Jastremski@cwu.edu
Patrick Lubinski (PhD, archaeology) On sabbatical 2025-2026. Zooarchaeology, methods, cultural resource management, western North America; Pat.Lubinski@cwu.edu
Jessica Mayhew (PhD, biological anthropology) Primate social behavior and socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, the large-bodied apes, play behavior; Jessica.Mayhew@cwu.edu
Patrick McCutcheon (PhD, archaeology) Evolutionary theoretical perspectives, fieldwork and laboratory methods, archaeometry, lithic analysis, cultural resource management, North American prehistory; Patrick.McCutcheon@cwu.edu
Lene Pedersen (PhD, cultural anthropology) On sabbatical 2025-2026. Visual anthropology, symbolic anthropology, ecological anthropology, ritual, social organization, post-colonialism, southeast Asia (Indonesia), circumpolar north, sub-saharan Africa, natural resource management; Lene.Pedersen@cwu.edu
Lori Sheeran (PhD, biological anthropology) Department Chair. Primates of Asia, primate conservation, primate social behavior; Lori.Sheeran@cwu.edu
Karisa Terry (PhD, archaeology) Director of Museum of Culture & Environment. Paleolithic adaptations, hunter-gatherer-fishers, migration, evolutionary archaeology, chipped stone, ceramics, Northeast Asia; Karisa.Terry@cwu.edu
Penglin Wang (PhD, linguistic anthropology) Linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cultural anthropology, Asian studies, Central Eurasia, China; Penglin.Wang@cwu.edu
Staff and Part-time Faculty
Penelope Anderson (BA, Secretary Senior/Administrative Assistant) Penelope.Anderson@cwu.edu
Lynn Bethke (MA, Museum of Culture & Environment Collections Manager) Museum collections care, object preservation, museum technology, museum administration, exhibit design; Lynn.Bethke@cwu.edu
Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon (MA, NAGPRA Director) Repatriation, indigenizing bioarcheology/human remains documentation, restorative methodologies, histories of collecting and collectors, intangible cultural heritage, North America; Lourdes.Henebry-Deleon@cwu.edu
Doug McFarland (MA, Research Associate, CWU Faculty Fellow) Archaeology, cultural resource management; douglas.mcfarland@pnnl.gov
J.B. Mulcahy (MA, Lecturer) Primatology; jb@chimpsnw.org
Angela Neller (MA, Lecturer, Research Associate) Museums, repatriation, rights of indigenous peoples, curation, community collaboration, indigeneity and decolonization, cultural resource management; Columbia Plateau, Hawaii
Megan Partlow (PhD, Research Associate) Zooarchaeology, Alaska; meganapartlow@gmail.com
Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia (PhD, Dean of Graduate Studies) Environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, visual anthropology, ritual and performance theory, human geography, maritime anthropology, indigenous studies, the greater Southwest (including northern Mexico); Rodrigo.Renteria@cwu.edu
Isabelle Sarton Miller (PhD, Senior Lecturer, Research Associate) Biological anthropology; Isabelle.Miller@cwu.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Kathleen Barlow (PhD, cultural anthropology)
Linda Klug (PhD, linguistic anthropology)
William Smith (PhD, archaeology)
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