Anthropology
College of Behavioral and Social Science
(Dept. Phone: 530-898-6171)
Anthropology
(Dept. 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
in prehistoric central California. Research interests: bioarchaeology, paleodietary
reconstruction, forensic anthropology, California prehistory.
530-898-4905
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.
530-898-4540
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.
530-898-4953
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.
530-898-4185
Georgia Fox, Assistant 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.
560-898-5583
Carolyn Brown Heinz, Professor, Anthropology
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.
530-898-4094
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.
530-898-6894
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.
530-898-5696
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.
530-898-6193
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.
530-898-5861
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.
530-898-6220
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.
530-898-4793
