Anthropology and Museum Studies
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Full-time Faculty
Hope Amason (PhD, cultural anthropology) Director of Museum of Culture & Environment. On sabbatical 2024-2025. 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) Department Chair. 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) 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) Primates of Asia, primate conservation, primate social behavior; Lori.Sheeran@cwu.edu
Karisa Terry (PhD, archaeology) 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) 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
Angela Neller (MA, Lecturer, Research Associate) Museums, repatriation, rights of indigenous peoples, curation, community collaboration, indigeneity and decolonization, cultural resource management; Columbia Plateau, Hawaii
Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia (PhD, Associate 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
Emeritus Faculty
Kathleen Barlow (PhD, cultural anthropology)
Linda Klug (PhD, linguistic anthropology)
William Smith (PhD, archaeology)
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Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies
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Pat.Lubinski@cwu.edu