Staff Sandra ChiaramonteDepartment Senior Administrative Assistant/Office Manager Office: O'Connor 329 Phone: 408-554-2794 Fax: 408-554-4189 email: schiaramonte@scu.edu Professional Background: Sandee has been working at Santa Clara University for over 20 years. She is an award winning staff member:
Responsibilities: Sandee oversees the day-to-day operations of two separate departments. She works closely with the students and faculty, answering questions, assisting with enrollment issues, provided Administrative support to two Department Chairs. Additionally, she coordinates department events, manages the budgets, organizes the Undergraduate Research Conference, and advises students with any issues that arise. Maintains the departments office organization and supervises student assistants. _________________________________________________________ Faculty Michelle Bezanson mbezanson@scu.edu 408-551-1684 O’Connor 321 http://www.michellebezanson.com Dr. Bezanson is a biological anthropologist with research interests in evolutionary anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, and human ecology. Her research has focused on ontogenetic (the life history of an individual) effects on posture, locomotion, prehensile-tail use, and the behavioral, arboreal, and resource-based contexts of these patterns in wild mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) and white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) inhabiting tropical forests in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Currently, she is examining how omnivory, large brains, and fine manipulative abilities influence the evolution of life history features in nonhuman primates. Courses Taught: Anthropology 1: Introduction to Biological AnthropologyAnthropology 5: Popular Culture and Biological Anthropology Anthropology 11a: Measuring Humanity Anthropology 130: Primate Behavioral Ecology Anthropology 132: Human Evolution Summer fieldschool Primate Behavior and Ecology _________________________________________________________  Luis Calero lcalero@scu.edu 408-554-2194 O’Connor 315 Dr. Calero’s academic background in cultural anthropology has centered on the study of indigenous and peasant cultures of Latin America. He has carried out field research in Andean South America and Central America focusing on questions of ethno-history, cultural and environmental survival, sustainable development, globalization and migration. Courses Taught: Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology 12: Peace and Violence
Anthropology 50: World Geography
Anthropology 110: Anthropology Theory Anthropology 150: Religion in Culture and Society Anthropology 158: Applied Anthropology
Anthropology 159: Critiquing Culture Change and Development
Anthropology 185: Peoples of Latin America
_________________________________________________________  Gregory Gullette ggullette@scu.edu 408-551-3000 x4211 O'Connor 322 Dr. Gullette has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand, and the United States. He is primarily interested in issues of environmental and economic anthropology, political economy, development, migration, and transnationalism. His research in Oaxaca, Mexico has focused on how Mexican tourism development policies have influenced international migration patterns, especially migration between Mexico and the United States. Within this work he has examined remittance strategies in international migration. Beginning in 2009 Gregory started to conduct research in Thailand on the intersections between migration, remittance management, and urban class/status hierarchies. His current work is particularly interested in examining 1) how rapid urban expansion facilitated by state development policy and widespread urban in-migration have created various social and environmental inequalities and 2) the dynamic nature of peri-urban spaces, which are characterized by the diversification of communities, the mosaics of competing land use strategies (such as tensions between farmers, manufacturers, and tourism developers), and various attempts to sustainably manage natural resources. Courses Taught: Anthropology 3: Cultural Anthropology Anthropology 11A: Migration and Transnationalism Anthropology 12A: Migration and Transnationalism Anthropology 110: Anthropological Theory Anthropology 112: Anthropological Methods Anthropology 114: Senior Capstone Anthropology 154: Environmental Anthropology Anthropology 158: Applied Anthropology Anthropology 198: Internship _________________________________________________________
Dr. Hauff is a biological anthropologist and serves as a faculty member in both the Anthropology Department and the Public Health Science major. Her research interests are in biocultural anthropology, human reproductive ecology, and maternal nutrition and lactation in humans. Her research focuses on how maternal characteristics, especially nutritional status, affect perinatal health outcomes. Specifically she utilizes a combination of observational data, survey analysis, and lab work to investigate how maternal obesity impacts breastfeeding outcomes in the United States. Courses Taught: Anthropology 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology Anthropology 114: Senior Project Public Health Science: Human Health and Disease _________________________________________________________  Mary Heglandmhegland@scu.edu 408-554-4646 O’Connor 318 Curriculum Vitae Mary Elaine Hegland's field work has been in the Middle East and South Asia: Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. She has also worked among Iranian Americans in the Bay Area of California and involves students in research projects among people of Iranian and other Middle Eastern backgrounds in the Santa Clara area. Dr. Hegland’s publications deal with the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979; women and gender in religion and politics in Iran; change and continuity in an Iranian village; and women and gender in Shia Muslim rituals in Pakistan. Currently, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan. Courses Taught: Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology 11A: Transforming Middle East
Anthropology 90: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Anthropology 157: Family, Kin, and Culture Anthropology 172: Anthropology of Aging Anthropology 188: People, Culture, and Change in the Middle East _________________________________________________________  Lisa Kealhofer, Chairlkealhofer@scu.edu. 408-554-6810 O’Connor 319 Lisa Kealhofer has worked in both Turkey and Thailand since 1992. Her research interests focus on the relationships between environment, land use, and cultural change. Most recently, she is collaborating on the Anatolian Iron Age Project studying trade in the 1st millennium BC in Turkey. Courses Taught: Anthropology 1 : Introduction to Biological Anthropology _________________________________________________________
Dr. Panich is an archaeologist with a research focus on California and neighboring areas. In his research, he employs a combination of archaeological, ethnographic, and archival data to examine the complex hunter-gatherer groups indigenous to the Pacific coast of North America and their interactions with European colonial institutions, including the Spanish mission system. From 2005-2009, he led a collaborative binational research program centered on the Dominican mission of Santa Catalina in Baja California, Mexico, and beginning in 2012, he will be initiating a new project on the SCU campus that will explore the lives of the Native Americans who lived and worked at Mission Santa Clara. His interests also include cultural landscapes, historical archaeology, as well as obsidian and ceramic provenance studies. Courses Taught: Anthropology 2: Introduction to Archaeology _________________________________________________________
After completing his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington, George came to Santa Clara in 1980. His primary areas of research have focused on issues of law, conflict resolution, and colonialism. The site of this ethnographic and ethnohistorical research has been in the Pacific Islands, both in Papua New Guinea and Guam. He is particularly interested in the ways local populations adapt to legal and political systems created by colonizing powers. In addition, his interests have included studies in religion as a force for change. His courses reflect his interests with an emphasis on Law and Society (Anth 151) and Conflict Resolution (Anth 155). He has combined his academic pursuits outside the university by serving for many years as a volunteer mediator in local community mediation programs. Courses Taught: Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology _________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC YEAR ADJUNCT LECTURERS
Courses Taught: Anthropology 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Curriculum Vitae Dr. Luthra holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She has conducted research on participatory and grassroots development and non-governmental organizations in New Delhi, India. Her research explored the local – global networks shaping development initiatives in South Asia during the structural adjustment/liberalization period of the 1990s to the present. Her interests include feminist anthropology, women's empowerment and development, and social movements and social change. Courses Taught: Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural AnthropologyAnthropology 90: Cross-Cultural Studies of Women Anthropology 110: Anthropological Theory Anthropology 172: Anthropology of Aging Anthropology 150: Anthropology of Religion Anth 152: Political Anthropology _________________________________________________________ QUARTERLY ADJUNCT LECTURER  Lorna Piercelcpierce@scu.edu O’Connor 329 Courses Taught: Anthropology 136: Forensic Anthropology _________________________________________________________ Student Assistants
Katherine Edgecumbe |
Lee Panich
George Westermark,
Matthew Jared Jobin
Sangeeta Luthra
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