Faculty
- ALIM, H. SAMY - halim@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Stanford 2003; Assistant Professor) Sociolinguistics, style theory and methodology, ethnographic studies of street language, culture, and music; language and race(ism), power and identity, Black Language and Hip Hop Culture, Global Hip Hop Cultural Studies, linguistic profiling, language and literacy development in marginalized communities, US and the Arabic-speaking world (mainly Egypt).
- APTER, ANDREW - aapter@history.ucla.edu (Ph.D in Anthropology, Yale University, 1987; Professor) West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria) and the African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), History of Anthropology, Social Theory. Andrew Apter works on ritual, memory, and indigenous knowledge as well as colonial culture, commodity fetishism and state spectacle. His historical ethnography of Yoruba hermeneutics informs his research on “syncretism” and creolization in West Africa and the Americas.
- ARNOLD, JEANNE E. - jearnold@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara 1983; Professor) Archaeological theory, complex hunter-gatherers, craft specialization, political evolution, exchange systems, the prehistory and early contact era of the Pacific Coast of North America --- California and British Columbia.
- BARRETT, H. CLARK - barrett@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara 1999; Associate Professor) Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology, cognitive development, hunter-gatherer ecology; South America.
- BOYD, ROBERT - rboyd@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Davis 1975 [Ecology]; Professor) Biological anthropology, mathematical models of cultural evolution, evolutionary theory.
- BRANTINGHAM, P. JEFFREY - branting@ucla.edu (Ph.D., U. of Arizona 1999; Associate Professor) DEPARTMENT VICE CHAIR Paleoanthropology, simulation modeling, carnivore ecology, hunter-gatherers, stone technology, evolutionary theory; China, Mongolia, Tibet.
- BROWNER, CAROLE - browner@ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1976 M.P.H., UC Berkeley 1977; Professor In Residence) Social impact of decoding the human genome, reproductive politics; Latin America, urban U. S.
- DONNAN, CHRISTOPHER B - cdonnan@arts.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1968; Professor) Archaeology, culture change, invention and technology, South America.
- DURANTI, ALESSANDRO - aduranti@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., University of Southern California 1981 (Linguistics); Professor) DEPARTMENT CHAIR Linguistic anthropology, ethnopragmatics, theories of intentionality, agency, political discourse, literacy, ethnography of speaking, the culture of jazz aesthetics; Samoa, U.S., Italy. (Director, Center for Language, Interaction and Culture)
- FESSLER, DANIEL M.T. - dfessler@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1995; Associate Professor) Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology; emotions, social control, risk taking, ingestive and reproductive behaviors, morality, cultural evolution; Indonesia.
- FISKE, ALAN PAGE - afiske@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Chicago 1985; Professor) Psychological anthropology, social theory, methodology; Africa.
- GARRO, LINDA C - lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Duke 1982 [Psychology], UC Irvine 1983 [Social Sciences]; Professor) Cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods; Mesoamerica, northern North America.
- GOODWIN, MARJORIE HARNESS - mgoodwin@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Pennsylvania 1978; Professor) Ethnography of communication, human interaction, conversation analysis, language and gender, workplace ethnography, children's social organization.
- GUPTA, AKHIL - akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D. Stanford University Dept. of Engineering-Economic Systems, 1988; Professor) Ethnography of information technology, the state and development, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, space and place, history of anthropology, applied anthropology; India and South Asia. (2007-8 Spring Quarter office hours: W 1-2 PM)
- HALE, SONDRA - sonhale@ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Anthropology, 1979; M.A. UC Los Angeles, African Studies 1967; B.A. UC Los Angeles, English Literature; Professor) Gender; political economy; social movements; postcolonial and cultural studies; nationalism and colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; Islam/Islamism; Middle East and Africa (mainly Sudan and Eritrea).
- HOLLAN, DOUGLAS W - dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC San Diego 1984; Professor) Psychological and cultural anthropology; ethnopsychology; cross-cultural psychiatry; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania.
- KENNEDY, GAIL E. - kennedy@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London 1973; Associate Professor) Biological anthropology, Human evolution, Bioarchaeology, Evolutionary theory, Anthropological forensics, Paleopathology, Africa.
- KROSKRITY, PAUL V - paulvk@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Indiana 1977; Professor) Language and culture, language contact, language and identity, language ideologies, anthropology and verbal art, and the ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California. (Chair, IDP in American Indian Studies (1986-2006))
- LESURE, RICHARD GARDNER - lesure@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Michigan 1995; Associate Professor) New World archaeology, archaeological theory, origins of cultural complexity; origin and development of ideologies of inequality; Mesoamerica.
- LEVINE, NANCY E - nelevine@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Rochester 1978; Professor) Kinship and domestic economy, demography, social change, gender; Tibet and Central Asia. (Chair, General Campus Institutional Review Board of OPRS)
- MAHON, MAUREEN E. - memahon@ucla.edu (Ph.D., NYU 1997; Associate Professor) Cultural Anthropology; race and identity, cultural activism, media and expressive culture; US, African diaspora.
- MANSON, JOSEPH HOWARD - jmanson@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Michigan 1991; Professor) Primate behavioral ecology and social relationships; evolution and human behavior. (On leave 2003-04)
- MITCHELL-KERNAN, CLAUDIA - cmkernan@gdnet.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1969; Professor) Urban anthropology, sociolinguistics, Afro-American culture, Caribbean. (Not teaching, Dean/Vice-Chancellor Graduate Division)
- OCHS, ELINOR - eochs@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1974; Professor) Discourse structures, grammar in context, language and affect, spoken and written language. Language acquisition and language socialization (development/transmission of sociocultural knowledge through language, socialization of cognitive skills through language). Cross-cultural communication. Madagascar, Samoa, U.S., Italy.
- ORTNER, SHERRY B. - sortner@anthro.ucla.edu ((Ph.D., University of Chicago 1970); Professor) Critical cultural and social theory, including feminist theory; late capitalism in the US and globally; contemporary American culture in the wider world; theory and ethnography of media; Hollywood and the indie film scene.
- PARK, KYEYOUNG - kpark@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., City University of New York 1990; Associate Professor) Urban anthropology, political economy, work, capitalism, class, gender, race/ethnicity, social justice, critical and multicultural theories, cultural transformation, migration, transnationalism/globalization; US and Korean/Asian Americans, Asians in the Americas, Asian diaspora, Korea.
- PERRY, SUSAN EMILY - sperry@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Michigan 1995; Associate Professor) Primate social relationships, primate social cognition, communication; capuchins, macaques. (On leave 2003-04)
- READ, DWIGHT W - dread@anthro.ucla.edu (BA, Reed College 1964 [Mathematics] MA, U. of Wisconsin 1965 [Mathematics] Ph.D., UC Los Angeles 1970 [Mathematics]; Professor) Mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, theory of social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification.
- SCELZA, BROOKE A - (Assistant Professor)
- SCHACHNER, GREGSON - gschachner@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Arizona State University 2007; Assistant Professor) North American archaeology, origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies, settlement systems and analysis, ceramic analysis, social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest
- SILK, JOAN B - jsilk@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Davis 1981; Professor) Biological anthropology, primate behavior, evolutionary biology.
- SLYOMOVICS, SUSAN - ssly@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1985; Professor) Gender; human rights; folklore and material culture; visual anthropology; Middle East and North Africa. (Director, Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies)
- SMITH, MONICA L. - smith@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., University of Michigan 1997 ; Associate Professor) Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
- STANISH, CHARLES S - stanish@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Chicago 1985; Professor) Andean anthropology, settlement archaeology, political economy and the evolution of social complexity. (Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
- TAMANOI, MARIKO - mtamanoi@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Northwestern 1982; Associate Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, historical anthropology, political economy, gender studies; colonialism and nationalism; Japan and East Asia; Mexico and Spain (Catalonia) (Professor Mariko Tamanoi is also an affiliated faculty of the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, member of the Center for Japanese Studies at UCLA, and member of the Council on the East Asian Studies at UCLA. )
- THORNTON, RUSSELL - rthornto@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Florida State 1968 (Sociology) Postdoctoral, Harvard University 1968-69 (Social Relations) Postdoctoral, University of Southern California 1980 (Demography); Professor) American Indian historical demography, American Indian revitalization movements, American Indian winter counts, contemporary American Indian issues.
- THROOP, C. JASON - jthroop@ucla.edu (Ph.D. UCLA 2005; Assistant Professor) Psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain/sensation/emotion, morality, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia)
- WEISNER, THOMAS S. - tweisner@ucla.edu (B.A., Reed College, 1965; Ph.D., Harvard 1973; Professor In Residence) Culture, human development and the family; children & families at risk; mixed methods; evidence-informed policy; Africa, United States.
- YAN, YUNXIANG - yan@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Harvard 1993; Professor) Economic anthropology, social change and development, family and kinship, exchange theory, peasant study, and cultural globalization.
Professor Emeritus
- BLURTON JONES, NICHOLAS G. - nickbj@.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Oxford 1962; Professor Emeritus) Biological anthropology, human ethology and ecology; evolutionary theory and cross-cultural patterns of mother-infant interaction. (Not teaching)
- GOLDSCHMIDT, WALTER R. - walterg@ucla.edu (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1942; Professor Emeritus) Cultural theory, cultural ecology; East Africa. (Not teaching.)
- HAMMOND, PETER B. - phammond@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Northwestern 1962; Professor Emeritus) Social inequality, sexuality and gender, Africa, African Diaspora, whiteness
- JOHNSON, ALLEN W. - ajohnson@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Stanford 1968; Professor Emeritus) Cultural and political ecology, research design, psychological anthropology; native South America, Latin American communities.
- KENNEDY, JOHN G - (Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1962; Professor Emeritus) Theory of human behavior, cultural psychiatry, psychological anthropology; Middle East (Nubia, N. Yemen), Latin America (especially Tarahumara Indians). (Not in residence.)
- LANGNESS, LEWIS L - (Ph.D., Washington 1964; Professor Emeritus) Psychological and cultural anthropology, history of anthropology; Melanesia. (Not in residence.)
- MAQUET, JACQUES - (Ph.D., London 1952; Professor Emeritus) Social and cultural anthropology, aesthetic anthropology, symbolic systems, intentional communities; Africa, Sri Lanka. (Not teaching.)
- MOERMAN, MICHAEL - (Ph.D., Yale 1964; Professor Emeritus) Social interaction, conversational analysis, visual anthropology, ethnographic theory; Southeast Asia. (Not in residence.)
- NEWMAN, PHILIP L. - newman@anthro.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Washington 1962; Professor Emeritus) Culture theory, comparative religion, aesthetic systems; Oceania. (Not in residence.)
- OSWALT, WENDELL H. - (Ph.D., Arizona 1959; Professor Emeritus) Ethnology, technology; North America, Alaska. (Not in residence.)
- POSNANSKY, MERRICK - merrick@history.ucla.edu (Ph.D., Nottingham 1956; Professor Emeritus) African prehistory, technology change, historical archaeology; Africa and the African Diaspora.
- PRICE-WILLIAMS, DOUGLASS R - dpw@ucla.edu (Ph.D., London 1963; Professor Emeritus) Psychological anthropology, cross-cultural cognitive studies, cross-cultural studies of dreams (Not in residence)
- SACKETT, JAMES R. - jsackett@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Harvard 1965; Professor Emeritus) Old World prehistory, archaeological method and theory, history of archaeology, style in material cultures.
- WILBERT, JOHANNES - jwilbert@ucla.edu (Ph.D., Cologne University 1955; Professor Emeritus) Ethnology, cognitive anthropology; South America. (Not teaching)
- WILLIAMS, BOBBY J. - (Ph.D., Michigan 1965; Professor Emeritus) Biological anthropology, population and quantitative genetics, human ecology. (Not in residence.)