Raquel Ackerman
Emerita Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., University of Cambridge-King’s College
Contact: (323) 343-2444
E-mail: [email protected]
- Linguistics
- South America
Beth Baker-Cristales
Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Contact: (323) 343-2443
E-mail: [email protected]
- Immigration
- Immigrant Rights Movement
- Latin America
- Cultural anthropology
- Social movements
- Urban anthropology
- Applied anthropology
- Gender and sexuality cross-culturally
Fluent in: Spanish.
James Brady
Professor of Anthropology; M.A., Cal State LA, Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-2024
E-mail: [email protected]
- Mesoamerican cave archaeology
- Cueva de Rio Talgua (Cave of the River Talgua) in Honduras
- “The Cave of the Glowing Skulls”
- Role of ideology in complex societies
- Cultural landscapes and religion
- Archaeological method and theory
- History and development of the Olmec, Maya, Toltecs and Aztecs
Patricia Martz
Emerita Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., UC Riverside
Contact: (323) 343-2440
E-mail: [email protected]
- Prehistoric archaeology
- California Indians
- Cultural resource management
- San Nicolas Island
- Protection of historic and archaeological properties
- Native American Graves Protection
- Repatriation Act
Elizabeth Miller
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., Arizona State University
Contact: (323) 343-2442
E-mail: [email protected]
- Paleopathology
- Forensic anthropology
- Skeletal biology
- Disease ecology
- European contact on Native Americans
- Interpretation of disease in human skeletal remains
- Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner forensic cases
ChorSwang Ngin
Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., UC Davis
Contact: (323) 343-2440
E-mail: [email protected]
- Asian and Asian-American studies
- Comparative ethnic studies
- Southeast Asia
- “Racialized” perspective of women’s studies
- Women and economic development
- Third World feminism
- Research methodology
- Ethnographic studies
- Cultural beliefs
- Islamic laws on inheritance
- Living arrangements among Malays
- Chinese and Indians in Malaysia
Fluent in: Mandarin, Cantonese, Teochew, Malay and Taiwanese.
Elliott Oring
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., Indiana University
Contact: (323) 343-2440
E-mail: [email protected]
- Folklore
- Humor
- Cultural symbolism
- Interpretation of modern joke cycles
- Role of joking in inter-ethnic communication