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Faculty research programs (see individual faculty profiles) in psychological anthropology, complex societies, religion, political anthropology, anthropological , comparative behavior, neurobiology, paleodiet and paleoecology, Melanesian studies, Middle East, the General Caribbean, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, Judaic Studies and South Pacific studies. Members of the department are associated with Description the Center for US-Mexican Studies and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, where new research is regularly presented in seminars by / Special resident and visiting scholars. Other special programs include the Critical Gender Studies, Global Health Program, African Studies, Science Studies Programs Program, Development Program, the South Asia Initiative, the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Center for Research on Language, the Institute for International, Comparative Area Studies, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, and the Judaic Studies Program.

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City La Jolla

Address 9500 Gilman Drive Line 1

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Website http://www.anthro.ucsd.edu/ Program Details

Degrees Offered Anthropology PhD, BA major

Highest Degree Offered PhD

Anthropology Archaeology BA/BS Field Areas

BA/ BS Requirements Please consult UCSD catalog

Anthropology Archaeology MA/MS Field Areas Biological Anthropology Cultural Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology

MA/ MS Requirements Please consult UCSD catalog

Anthropological archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology MA/MS Specializations (including psychological and linguistic anthropology)

Anthropology Archaeology PhD Field Areas Biological Anthropology Cultural Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology

Phd Requirements Please consult UCSD catalog

There are a number of research facilities and laboratories that are offered and affiliated with UCSD Anthropology including The Human Comparative Neuroanatomy Lab, Genetic Anthropology Lab, Linguistic Anthropology Lab, The Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Archaeology, Psychological-Medical Anthropology Lab, Center for Global Mental Health (CGMH), South American Archaeology Research Facilities Lab, Mesoamerican Archaeology Lab, Levantine and Cyber-Archaeology Lab, Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS), Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA), Paleoethnobotany Lab, and The Geoarchaeology and Human Ecology Lab. The program also has research and teaching links with the GIS Laboratory at the UCSD Geisel Library, the Linguistic Fieldwork Workshop, and the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA).

Graduate: Fellowships and TAships in Anthropology, as well as TAships in other departments and writing programs. Plus a wide variety of other support for both entering and continuing graduate students. Partial funding (through the department's Project Bucks) is available for most students' fieldwork. Additional Support Opportunities funds from various sources support research abroad. Funding is also available through the Dean of to present papers at scholarly meetings. The Anthropology Department sponsors the annual Dr. George Haydu Essay and Proposal Contest, with two $2500 cash awards.

Melanesian Archives at the Geisel Library, Milford Spiro Graduate Library, Library Resources Robert McCormack Adams archaeology library

Internships Available

Internship Required

Anthropological archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology Phd Specializations (including psychological and linguistic anthropology)

Certs Offered Statistical Information Program Contacts

Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise

Nancy Lee [email protected]

Psychological and medical anthropology, anthropology of emotion Steven India,Nepal,South and Central [email protected] and morality, social and psychological Nepal, India, US Parish Asia,Western Hemisphere theory, religion, Hinduism, urbanism, hierarchy and inequality

Anthropology of Religion; Performance Studies; Illness and Healing; Classical and Contemporary Hindu Traditions; Religion and Ecology; Ritual Studies; Aftab Jassal [email protected] Oral Traditions; Spirit Possession; Space and Place; Ethnographic Methods; Caste; South Asian religions (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Buddhism);

Biological anthropology, epigenetics, Mexican developmental origins of health and immigrants in the disease, biomarkers of stress and US, Romanian Europe / Eurasia,Western Amy Non [email protected] disadvantage, racial disparities in orphans, race in Hemisphere complex disease, Hispanic immigrant Puerto Rico and stress the US

Medical and psychological Bonnie anthropology, global mental health, [email protected] Haiti, Kenya Haiti,Kenya,Sub-Saharan Africa Kaiser implementation science, idioms of distress, cultural adaptation

Historical anthropology, modernity, Latin America, US, David [email protected] capitalism, military, transnational El Salvador, El Salvador,Western Hemisphere Pedersen migrant life California

Beauty and love intersecting with race, Southeast Dredge class, gender sexuality, globalization, [email protected] (Thailand), East East Asia and the Pacific,Thailand Kang structure violence in body modification, Asia interracial relationships

Emergence of complex society and economic systems, settlement pattern studies, geoarchaeology, lithic Mesoamerica, Geoffrey [email protected] production and technology, Lower Central Western Hemisphere Braswell archaeometry, mathematical methods, America alternative models of social and political systems, ancient Maya

Near Eastern, Anatolian, Near East, Guillermo Mesopotamian archaeology, early [email protected] Anatolia, Middle East and North Africa Algaze civilizations, origins of complex Mesopotamia societies

Environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeomalacology, climate change, resilience and Puerto Rico, Isabel adaptation, vulnerability, landscape Caribbean, Rivera- [email protected] Israel,Sub-Saharan Africa change, coastal landscape Mediterranean, Collazo reconstruction, sea level change, Israel maritime archaeology, coastal archaeology, island archaeology

Origin and spread of agriculture, climate change, archaeometry, China, Tibetan Jade [email protected] computational Modelling, Plateau, South China,East Asia and the Pacific Guedes archaeobotany, human landscape East Asia interactions

Psychological, medical anthropology, subjective experience, global mental Latin America, Janis [email protected] health, emotion, gender, violence, Latinos in North Western Hemisphere Jenkins adolescence, psychopharmacology, America Latinos

Linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, Australia,East Asia and the John social life of language, gesture, [email protected] Mexico, Australia Pacific,Mexico,Western Haviland interaction, conversation, emerging sign Hemisphere languages Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise

Capitalism, gender, and racism. Social movements of labor and identity. Joseph Incarceration, circulation, arrest, East Asia and the [email protected] US, Japan Hankins neoliberalism. Anti-carceral feminisms. Pacific,Japan,Western Hemisphere Struggles for recognition, publics and center publics

Biological anthropology, of the brain, comparative neuroanatomy of the Katerina [email protected] human brain, evolution of neural Semendeferi systems involved in primate cognition and emotions

Indigenous peoples, politics, race/ethnicity, neoliberalism and Nancy Latin America, [email protected] liberalism, citizenship, multiculturalism, Bolivia,Western Hemisphere Postero Bolivia political economy, human rights, performance

Evolutionary Anthropology, Samoa, American East Asia and the Paleogenomics, Indigenizing Research, Samoa, Kingdom P.Keolu Fox [email protected] Pacific,Samoa,Sub-Saharan Population , Genome of Tonga, Tahiti, Africa,Tonga Technologies Hawaii

Molecular primatology, evolutionary glycobiology, primate immune systems, Pascal primate reproduction, glycobiology of [email protected] Gagneux reproduction, glycobiology and infectious disease, evolution of primate mating systems

Archaeology, settlement patterns, household archaeology, ceramic Paul Peru, Chile, Bolivia,Chile,Ecuador,Peru,Western [email protected] analysis, climate change, evolution of Goldstein Bolivia, Ecuador Hemisphere complex societies, migration and state expansion, Andean civilizations

publics and the public sphere; Mexico, Mexico- Rihan Yeh [email protected] subjectivity; borders; semiotics of Mexico,Western Hemisphere US Border, Tijuana mobility

Medical and Psychological Anthropology, Anthropology of Psychiatry, Global Health, Humanitarian Saiba [email protected] Aid and Development, South Asian Varma Studies, Violence, Qualitative Research Methods and Ethnographic Writing, India

Biological anthropology, primate Shirley socioecology, cognitive ethology, [email protected] Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Strum evolutionary theory, conservation, science studies

Sociocultural anthropology, feminist anthropology, gender, religion, and the Indonesia, East Asia and the Suzanne [email protected] state, ideologies of marriage and Southeast Asia, Pacific,Indonesia,Western Brenner family, political anthropology, Islam, the US Hemisphere Christianity

Psychological, medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative Contemporary US, Thomas [email protected] religion, cultural phenomenology and Native North Western Hemisphere Csordas embodiment, globalization and social America change, language, culture

Anthropological archaeology, Levantine Thomas archaeology, Marine Archaeology, Middle East, Israel, Israel,Jordan,Middle East and North [email protected] Levy pastoral nomads, complex societies, Jordan Africa cyber-archaeology

Ceramic technology and exchange; Southern Levant; Margie ceramic petrography; ground stone eastern Middle East and North [email protected] Burton technology; relationships between Mediterranean; Africa,Western Hemisphere technology and socio-economic change southern California

Taiwan, East Asia, East Asia and the David Ethnology, religion, psychological [email protected] Precolumbian Pacific,Mexico,Taiwan,Western Jordan anthropology, sociolinguistics Mexico Hemisphere

Behavioral ecology, and Jim Moore [email protected] cetaceans, , Africa, India India,Sub-Saharan Africa weber.ucsd.edu/~jmoore/ Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise

Global systems, globalization, Jonathan anthropology of politics, governance, Pacific, Southeast East Asia and the Pacific,Europe / [email protected] Friedman state, culture and identity, multicultural Asia, Europe Eurasia societies, migration

Linguistic anthropology, language and Kathryn Catalonia, Spain, Europe / Eurasia,Spain,Western [email protected] ethnicity, language ideology, language Woolard US Hemisphere and history, discourse

Biological anthropology, diet Margaret reconstruction, evolution of human diet, [email protected] Schoeninger bone chemistry, human nutritional ecology

Michael Cultural anthropology, politics, history Turkey, Middle East Asia and the Pacific,Middle [email protected] Meeker and literature East East and North Africa,Turkey

US-Mexico Borderlands, ethnography, transnational markets and entrepreneurs, indigenous Robert [email protected] epistemology, globalization, Mexico, US Mexico,Western Hemisphere Alvarez immigration and settlement, comparative borders and the nation state

UCSD Anthro Graduate [email protected] Program Coordinator

Biological anthropology, pluripotent stem cells to study the cellular behavior of human neurons in Carol [email protected] neuropsychiatric/neurodevelopmental Marchetto conditions, human evolution in the context of human brain expansion/neuronal development