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Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous Peoples, Mineralogy, Material Science
Biography, Education and Training
Professor Judith Habicht Mauche's research interests include the organization of production and exchange, ethnicity and gender, and the nature of power and social organization in middle range societies in the American Southwest and Southern Plains. Her background includes training in pre-contact and post-contact period archaeology in the Americas, ethnohistory and museum studies. She is an expert in the archaeological application of mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic techniques for sourcing... more »
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brenneis@ucsc.edu
831-459-3855
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, Sound, Folklore, Folk Music
Biography, Education and Training
Donald Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Stanford and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His work has focused on the social life of communicative practices—linguistic, musical, performative, and textual. He worked in a South Asian diasporic community in Fiji over a 20-year period, examining the relationships among language, music, conflict, law, and politics—and cons... more »
Professor of Anthropology, Provost, Rachel Carson and Oakes Colleges
Rachel Carson College, Oakes College, Anthropology DepartmentAreas of expertise: Anthropology, Animal-Human Relationships, Sense and Sensation, Islamic Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexuality
Biography, Education and Training
B.A., Harvard University (Social Studies) M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago (Anthopology) I joined UCSC in 2008 as an assistant professor of anthropology and reached full professor a couple of years ago. My first book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism, was on Muslim activism and secular politics in France. I’m currently writing a second book, Companion Spirits, on more-than-secular approaches to the Anthropocene. I am also a co-editor of the... more »
Research Social Scientist, Adjunct Faculty
Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Science & Policy ProgramAreas of expertise: Anthropology, Fisheries, Natural Resource Management, Sociology, Environmental Policy
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of the UCSC Archaeological Research Center, Associate Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute
Anthropology DepartmentAreas of expertise: Ancient DNA, Archaeology, Human Biology, Population Biology, Molecular Evolution, Ecology, Anthropology, Evolution
Biography, Education and Training
MA in Biological Anthropology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and in Archaeology, University of Goettingen, Germany PhD (Dr. rer. nat) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Goettingen, Germany PostDoc in Anthropology & EEB, Yale University, USA
Teaching Professor (Senate Faculty) and Chair of the Writing Program
Writing Program, Stevenson CollegePress Contact
Kimberly Adilia Helmer
Teaching Professor
Khelmer@ucsc.edu
805.320.0875
Areas of expertise: Teacher Education, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Writing, Anthropology, Ethnography
Biography, Education and Training
Kimberly Adilia Helmer holds an MA TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. She is the recipient of two distinguished teaching prizes from the University of Arizona and John Jay College, CUNY.
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Education, Critical Theory, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Marxism, School Reform and School Policy, United States Politics and Government
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, Social and Cultural Studies in Education B.A. Brown University, Educational Studies & Critical Theory
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Colonialism, California History, Indigenous Peoples, Material Science
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley M.A. - University of Texas at Austin B.A. - University of Texas at Austin Tsim Schneider (he/him) is a citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo) and anthropologist. Dr. Schneider studies the interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial institutions, primarily in California. He is the author of The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial Ca... more »
Areas of expertise: Science and Technology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sociology of Development
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco, 2012
Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, Anthropology, Animal Behavior, Archaeology, Ecology, Slavery, Geochemistry
Areas of expertise: Archaeology, Anthropology, Death/Mortality Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Animal-Human Relationships, Climate Change, Fisheries, Subsaharan Africa
Biography, Education and Training
Eréndira M. Quintana Morales is an archaeologist whose research program integrates various anthropological research themes, including the historical ecology of coastal environments, the role of foodways in social identity and interaction, and the application of archaeology towards the conservation of coastal biodiversity and livelihoods. She combines zooarchaeological and community-based research approaches to investigate the social and ecological impacts of human interactions wit... more »
Areas of expertise: Archaeology, Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies, Geographic Information Systems, Colonialism
Biography, Education and Training
Dr. Carla Hernández Garavito (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2019) is a Peruvian archaeologist investigating the reinvention of community identity in the Central Andes through successive colonization by the Inka (1450-1532 CE) and Spanish (1532-1821 CE) Empires. She has conducted research in the Peruvian North Coast and Cusco, but her main research area is Huarochirí, in the highlands of Lima. Her research connects her archaeological and historical interests through spatial modeling... more »
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archives, Archival Practices, California History, Chicana/o Studies, Community-based Research, Food/Nutrition, Indigenous Peoples, Latin American and Latino Studies, Mexico, Oral History
Biography, Education and Training
Dr. Vanessa Moreno Wilcox is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz under the mentorship of Dr. Gabriela F. Arredondo. She is currently writing her first book manuscript titled Morisqueta Mapping: Foodways in the Tierra Caliente Diaspora of Northern California. Vanessa is also conducting archival research in collaboration with the Dolores Huerta Foundation to assist in the development of Dolores Huerta's archives into the Dolore... more »
Jessica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
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