College of Behavioral and Social Science: Anthropology Department

Faculty Expert Database List

College of Behavioral and Social Science

Phone: 530-898-6171

Anthropology Department

Phone: 530-898-6192

Eric Bartelink

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
A.B.D. Texas A&M (2006)
A physical/biological anthropologist with academic interests in human skeletal biology and archaeological applications of stable isotope analysis. Bartelink's current academic research focuses on reconstructing diet and health patterns of prehistoric central California. Research interests: bioarchaeology, paleodietary reconstruction, forensic anthropology, California prehistory.

Phone: 530-898-4905
Email: EBartelink@csuchico.edu

Frank Bayham

Professor, Anthropology
PhD: Arizona State University (1982)
An archaeologist with academic and resarch interest in the Southwest, the Great Basin, and Northern California. Additionally, he has taphonomic and zoo-arcaeological expertise. Bayham teaches a variety of archaeology courses including those that address field and laboratory methods, zoo-archaeology, taphonomy, and archaeological theory.

Phone: 530-898-4540
Email: FBayham@csuchico.edu

William Collins

Professor, Anthropology
PhD, University of Cincinnati (1974)
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2005)
Near Eastern Archaeology, environmental anthropology, globalization, third world development, language and religion, ancient civilizations. Research areas in cultures of the Middle East, South, East and Southeast Asia.

Phone: 530-898-4953
Email: BCollins@csuchico.edu

David Eaton

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Africa. PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2001)
Medical anthropology, population and life sciences, comparative politics, narrative and performance. Research interests in equatorial and eastern Africa.

Phone: 530-898-4185
Email: DAEaton@csuchico.edu

Georgia Fox

Professor
PhD, Texas A&M (1998)
Gerogia Fox's interests and specializations include the archaeology of New World colonization and trade, museum and material culture studies, the preservation and conservation of archaeological and ethnographic materials, underwater archaeology and the archaeology of maritime cultures, historical archaeology and economic anthropology as it relates to culture change. Professor Fox is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Museum of Anthropology. Geographic areas of study include the history and archaeology of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, historical Caribbean period, and maritime California.

Phone: 560-898-5583
Email: GFox@csuchico.edu

Carolyn Brown Heinz

Professor, Anthropology - Retired
PhD, University of Washington (1978)
A cultural anthropologist who specializes in religion, contemporary theory, physchological anthropology, visual anthropology and anthropology of gender. Research areas Sourth Asia, E and SE Asia.

Phone: 530-898-4094
Email: CHeinz@csuchico.ecu

William Loker

Professor, Anthropology
PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder (1986)
A socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in human ecology, globalization, and cultural evolution, adaptation, and development. Loker has worked in Latin and Central America, as well as in the Amazon basin. He teaches introductory, and applied cultural anthropology and formal research methods, as well as in the Latin American Studies Program.

Phone: 530-898-6894
Email: WLoker@csuchico.edu

Antoinette Martinez

Associate Professor, Anthropology
PhD: University of California, Berkeley (1998)
Academic and research interests in North American and California archaeology, historical archaeology, culture contact studies, native women in prehistory/history and archaeofaunal analysis. Dr. Martinez teaches a variety of archaeology courses including those that address archaeology and world prehistory, laboratory methods, cataclysmic events in prehistory, zooarchaeology, and archaeological theory.

Phone: 530-898-5696
Email: AMartinez@csuchico.edu

Turhon Murad

Professor, Anthropology
PhD, DABFA: Indiana University (1975)
A physical/biological anthropologist with academic interests in skeletal biology and human evolution. He has been certified as a Diplomate by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology for his practical experience. In addition to general physical anthopology Murad teaches classes which survey the forensic sciences, various upper division physical anthropology subjects, and specialty laboratory and skeletal biology courses.

Phone: 530-898-6193
Email: TMurad@csuchico.edu

Stacy B. Schaefer

Professor, Anthropology
PhD UCLA (1990)
A cultural anthropologist/Latin Americanist who specializes in Mesoamerica with research interests in indigenous people, ethnography, ethnobotany, art, symbolism, shamanism, religion, and interpretation and representation in museum exhibitions. Schaefer teaches courses in cultural anthropology and museums studies, and is co-Coordinator of the University's Museum Program as well as co-Director of the Museum of Anthropology.

Phone: 530-898-5861
Email: SSchaefer@csuchico.edu

Charles Urbanowicz

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
PhD: University of Oregon (1972)
A cultural anthropologist by training, with fieldwork in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga, Urbanowicz teaches courses in cultural anthropology (including Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific, History of Anthropological Theory and Method, and Introductory Cultural Anthropology). His current research interests include tourism, telecommunications, and the Internet.

Phone: 530-898-6220
Email: CUrbanowicz@csuchico.edu

Patrick Willey

Professor, Anthropology
PhD, DABFA: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1982)
A physical/biological anthropologist with academic research interests in skeletal biology, and anatomy. In addition to teaching introductory physical anthropology, Willey teaches a wide variety of upper division courses in physical anthropology as well as in his specialty, human osteology.

Phone: 530-898-4793
Email: PWilley@csuchico.edu