SSU Anthropology: Faculty & Staff

Department of Anthropology

CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT

Karin Enstam Jaffe
(Ph.D. UC Davis 2002; Associate Professor)
Biological anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, anti-predator behavior of primates, vervet (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas (Erythrocebus patas) monkeys; Africa.
Website: www.sonoma.edu/users/e/enstam

FULL TIME FACULTY

Carolyn Epple
(Ph.D. Northwestern 1994; Assistant Professor)
Medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, gender/sexuality studies, critical theory, participatory research practices; Native North America, Navajo.

Adrian Praetzellis
(Ph.D. UCB 1991; Director, Anthropological Studies Center; Professor)
Local history, American material culture, historical archeology, cultural resource management

Anthropological Studies Center (Building 29) phone 664-2820

Visit Adrian Praetzellis' website
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/praetzel/

Margaret Purser
(Ph.D. UCB 1987; Professor)
Historical archaeology, gender studies, archeological theory, material culture studies; North America, Pacific Basin.

Richard J. Senghas
(Ph.D. Rochester 1997; Professor)
Linguistic anthropology, linguistics of signed and spoken languages, social anthropology, deaf studies; Nicaragua, North America.

John D. Wingard
(Ph.D. Pennsylvania S 1992; Associate Professor)
Ecological anthropology, resource management, applied anthropology, archaeology, GIS, tourism, capitalism; Mesoamerica, Oceania, North America.

Web Site: www.sonoma.edu/users/w/wingard/
Ethnographic Field School Belize

PART TIME FACULTY, Fall 2008

Birch Moonwomon
(Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1991; Lecturer) Linguistics, sociolinguistics, gender/sexuality and language, sound change in progresss, discourse analysis, English language study.

Bruce Owen
(PhD UCLA 1993; Lecturer) Archaeology, Andean prehistory, formation and collapse of complex societies, multiethnic settlement and relations, precolumbian metalurgy, method and theory of anthropological archaeology, computer and statistical methods.

Web Sites: Bruce Owen's Web Site course descriptions and information about archaeology in the Andes
Web site with archaelolgy research in Peru
Website for Museo Contisuyo

Tsim D. Schneider
(Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley; Lecturer) Archaeology, hunter-gatherer-fisher studies, shell mounds, lithic analysis, colonial encounters, ethnohistory, identity, landscape approaches, indigenous archaeology, historic photographs; California, North America.

Emeritus

Sue Parker
Sue Taylor Parker
(Ph.D. UCB 1973, Professor)
Biological Anthropology, human development, infant development in humans and non-human primates, evolution of intelligence, macaques, chimpanzees, gorillas
See Sue Parker's Website
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/parker

Albert Wahrhaftig
(Ph.D. U Chicago 1975; Professor)
Anthropological theory and method, applied anthropology, psychological anthropology, sacred processes and ritual systems, identity and cultural persistence; North America, Middle America, American culture.
See Albert Wahrhaftig's Website
http://www.sonoma.edu/anthropology/wahrhaftig/

R. Thomas Rosin
(Ph.D. UCB 1968; Professor)
Social anthropology, applications in indigenous knowledge and common pool resources, human ecology; South Asia, Rajasthan.
See Tom Rosin's website:
http://home.earthlink.net/~tomrosin/index.html

Office Staff

Shannon Fields
Administrative Support Assistant

Caitlin Kyse
Administrative Coordinator

Julie Wood
Administrative Specialist

Stevenson 2054
Phone: (707) 664-2312
Fax: (707) 664-3920