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Dr. Fischer wearing a black top with a painting of Dr. Faye Harrison in blue along with black, green , gold colored Jamaican flag; this photo was taken by Dr. Faye V Harrison editor of Decolonizing Anthropology an author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in a Global Age
Dawn-Elissa Fischer (She/They)
Chair and Professor
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Dr Anderson with light colored bandana on head kneeling at field site in Pompei
Professor
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Dr. Bakker Kellog taking a selfie at a historic site , looks like a theatre with a crowd
Sarah Bakker Kellog (She/Her/Hers)
Lecturer
Elisa smiling with light green top and white background
Elisa Krieger (They/Them/Theirs)
Employee Assistant to Dr. Fischer
Emeritus Faculty
Name Information
David Ames

Ph.D. Northwestern University 1953, Professor Emeritus.

Sociology of Music and the Arts, Anthropology of Contemporary Life, Afro-American Cultures, West Africa.

Doug Bailey

Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1991, Professor Emeritus.

Art and Visual Culture, Prehistoric Art, Archaeology, Representation, and The Archaeology of the Contemporary Past  

Peter Biella

Ph.D., Temple University 1984, Professor Emeritus

Film Production, Visual Anthropology, Urban Ethnography, Ethnographic Field Methods, East African Pastoralism

Karen Bruhns

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley 1967, Professor Emeritus.

Archaeology, culture change; South America, Mesoamerica.

Niccolo Caldararo

Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies, 1999, Professor Emeritus.

Special Research in Artifact Conservation and Analysis, Genetics, Molecular Biology of Humans, Medical Anthropology, Economic Anthropology

Steve Gabow

Ph.D. University of Toronto 1973, Professor Emeritus.

Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavior and Fossil Humans.

Mark Griffin

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1993, Professor Emeritus.

Skeletal Biology, Dental Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology

Rodger Heglar

Ph.D. University of Michigan 1974, Professor Emeritus.

Biological and Forensic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Serology, New World Populations.

Gary W. Pahl

Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles, 1976, Professor Emeritus.

Archaeology of California, Maya and China, History of Archaeology, Writing Systems.

C. Sarah Soh

Ph.D. University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, 1987, Professor Emerita.

Sociocultural Anthropology: Gender and Culture Change, Women in Politics; Gendered Structural Violence and Postcolonial Historical Memory, The Comfort Women Controversy; Korea and Japan.

Cynthia Wilczak

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998, Professor Emerita.

Skeletal Markers of Occupational Stress, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Forensic Anthropology

Bernard Wong

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 1974, Professor Emeritus.

Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Overseas Chinese, Ethnicity, Kinship and Social Structure, Urban Anthropology, China and East Asia

James Quesada

Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, 1994, University of California, San Francisco & Berkeley Professor Emeritus

B.A., Psychology, 1978, Sonoma State University

Sheila Tully

Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco & Berkeley Professor, 2004, Emerita

Medical Anthropology,  Latin America, Gender and Sexuality, Structural Violence and Social Suffering