Faculty Michelle Bezanson mbezanson@scu.edu 551 1684 O’Connor 321 Dr. Bezanson’s 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 Anthropology Anthropology 5: Popular Culture and Biological Anthropology
Anthropology 130: Primate Behavioral Ecology Anthropology 132: Human Evolution Summer fieldschool Primate Behavior and Ecology _________________________________________________________
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 _________________________________________________________
408-554-3000 x4200 O'Connor 322 Dr. Gullette's fieldwork has occurred in Oaxaca, Mexico since 2002. He is primarily interested in issues of environmental anthropology, political economy, development, migration, and transnationalism. His research in Oaxaca, Mexico has focused on how Mexican development policies have influenced international migration patterns, especially migration between Mexico and the United States. He continues to research how Mexico-US migration form under the influence of development and conservation policies, as well as how migrants abroad influence local development in their place of origin through the money sent back to their families. Recently Gregory has started to research issues of urban environmentalism in Bangkok, Thailand. He is particularly interested in examining how rapid urban expansion facilitated by state development policy and widespread urban in-migration have created unequal exposures to various pollutants and threats in the city. Over the next few years his goal is to take students into the field and work with them on both local and international projects.
Courses Taught: The Anthropology of Globalization _________________________________________________________
554 4646 O’Connor 318 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 _________________________________________________________
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 _________________________________________________________
554 4328 O’Connor 320 Russell K. Skowronek is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and Campus Archaeologist, at Santa Clara University. He holds MA degrees in Anthropology and History from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Michigan State University. Professor Skowronek has conducted research on the Spanish colonial world in Spain, California, Florida, South Carolina, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Philippines. Since 1999 he has worked with Dr. Ronald Bishop of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian studying the supply, production and exchange of earthenwares on the Spanish Borderlands. A Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution since 2005 Skowronek is the co-author or editor of several books including X-Marks the Spot, The Archaeology of Piracy (2006); Situating Mission Santa Clara de Asis (2006); HMS Fowey Lost and Found (2009); and Beneath the Ivory Tower the Archaeology of Academia (2010). He also serves as the Editor for the Research Manuscript Series on the Cultural and Natural History of Santa Clara. Courses Taught: Anthropology 2: Introduction to Archaeology Research Reports: Ceramic Production, Supply, and Exchange in Spanish and Mexican Era California _________________________________________________________
554 6884 O’Connor 328 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 _________________________________________________________ INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
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Dr Laure Bjawi-Levine is a cultural anthropologist whose main regional focus is the Arab World (North Africa and the Near East). Her research interests draw on methodologies and approaches ranging from post-colonial issues such as ethno-religious identities, nationalism, migration and displacement to broader human rights and development issues in relation to global processes in the Arab World. Her field research took her to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the West Bank and Jordan. In Amman, Jordan, she explored among Palestinian urban refugee camp dwellers the ways in which human rights and children rights are being used as a tool for development by NGOs and have become reformulated by refugees into a local discourse. Currently, she is planning to work with recent Iraqi refugees and migrants to Jordan and focus on the impact of international conflict on the experience of new displaced communities in complex metropolitan centers such as Amman.
Courses taught: Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology _________________________________________________________ LECTURERS
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Dr. King is a lecturer for the Department of Anthropology with a regional focus on ancient Mesoamerica. He holds MA and PhD degrees in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University. His research interests focus on Mesoamerican archaeology, writing systems, historical linguistics, iconography and graphic communication, and archaeoastronomy. His recent projects include the decipherment of the hieroglyphic writing system of the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacán in Central Mexico, and researching the complex system of astronomy of the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. Courses Offered:
ADJUNCT FACULTY Lorna Pierce O’Connor 329
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Luis Calero
Gregory Gullette
Mary Hegland
Lisa Kealhofer, Chair
Russell Skowronek
George Westermark
Laure Bjawi-Levine
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