Faculty and Staff

	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 enviromental 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