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Faculty

Christopher H. Boehm
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Evolutionary Theory, Moral Origins, Political Anthropology, Primatology, Feuding and Warfare
Phone:(213) 740-0524
Email: cboehm1@msn.com
 
Eugene Cooper
Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Chinese Civilization, Contemporary China, Chinese Folk Custom, Popular Religion, Political Economy
Phone: (213)740-1905
Email: eugeneco@usc.edu
 
Roberto Antonio Delgado
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Non-human Primates, Communication, Sexual Selection, Social Organization, Behavioral Flexibility, Geographic Variation, Ecology, Wildlife Conservation
Phone: (213)740-4395
Email: radelgad@usc.edu
 
Janet Alison Hoskins
Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Visual Anthropology, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Transnational Religion, Ritual Performance, Indigenous Representations of the Past and of Time, Material Culture, Gender, Exchange, Narrative and Healing
Phone: (213) 740-1913
Email: jhoskins@usc.edu
 
Lanita Jacobs-Huey
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Areas: Language, Identity, and Culture; Language and Gender; Race, Performance, and Popular Culture; Race and Humor; Race, Health, and Disability; Race, Gender, and Aesthetics
Phone: (213) 740-1909
Email: jacobshu@usc.edu
 
Dorinne Kay Kondo
Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Areas: Cultural Theory, Performance/ Theater, Aesthetics and Politics, Race, Bodies/Subjects, Transnationalism, Japan and the United States
Phone: (213) 740-1910
Email: kondo@rcf.usc.edu
 
Andrew Lakoff
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Communication
Research Areas: Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Technologies of the Self, Globalization Processes, History of the Human Sciences, Visual Culture
Phone: (213) 740-1900
Email: lakoff@usc.edu
 
Nancy Christine Lutkehaus
Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and Political Science
Research Areas: Melanesian Gender and Social Organization, Political and Economic Anthropology, Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Cultures of Oceania, Visual Culture, Ethnographic and Documentary Film
Phone: (213)740-1917
Email: lutkehau@usc.edu
 
Cheryl F Mattingly
Professor of Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy
Research Areas: Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Narrative, Phenomenology of Illness and Healing, Culture of Biomedicine, Expressive Culture, Race and Health.
Phone: 740-4940
Email: mattingl@usc.edu
 
G. Alexander Moore
Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Anthropology and Education, Political Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Ethnographic Film, Film Criticism, Latin America, Panama, Guatemala, Turkey
Phone: (213) 740-0519
Email: almoore@usc.edu
 
Gary Seaman
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Taiwan, China, Ethnographic Film, Ethnography, Hypermedia in Ethnography, Ritual
Phone: (213) 740-1906
Email: seaman@usc.edu
 
Andrei W Simic
Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Balkans and Eastern Europe, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Post-Communist Society, Cross-cultural Gerontology, Visual Anthropology
Phone: (213) 740-1901
Email: asimic@usc.edu
 
Craig Britton Stanford
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human Evolution, Great Apes, Tropical Forest Ecology
Phone: (213) 740-1918
Email: stanford@rcf.usc.edu
 
Walter L Williams
Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History
Research Areas: American Indian Ethnohistory, Southeast Asia, Homosexuality, Transgender, Shamanism, U.S. Civil War, Museums, Archaeology, HIV Prevention
Phone: (213) 740-1911
Email: walterlw@usc.edu
 
Nayuta Yamashita
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Primates, Morphology, Madagascar, Lemurs, Diet, Tooth, Behavior, Ecomorphology, Evolution
Phone: (213) 740-1746
Email: nayutaya@usc.edu
 

Affiliated Faculty

Lynn Swartz Dodd
Lecturer
Research Areas: Archaeology, Archaeometry, Middle East, Native America, Politics of the Past, Ethnicity/Identity, Ancient Technology
Phone: (213) 740-0266
Email: swartz@usc.edu
 
Caleb Finch
University Professor, ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging and Professor of Gerontology, Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Aging and Developmental Biology, Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation, Neurobiology and Computational Neurobiology
Phone: (213) 740-1758
Email: cefinch@usc.edu
 
Peter Cooper Mancall
Professor of History and Anthropology
Research Areas: Early America, the Early Modern Atlantic World, Early Native American Indian History
Phone: (213) 821-2151
Email: mancall@usc.edu
 
Lawrence Palinkas
Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health
Research Areas: Medical Anthropology, Immigrant and Refugee Communities, Health Services Research, Global Health, United States, Mexico, Circumpolar Regions
Phone: (213)740-3990
Email: palinkas@usc.edu
 
Anne Margaret Porter
Assistant Professor of Religion, Art History, and Classics
Research Areas: Near Eastern Archaeology, Chronology, Cosmology, Mortuary Practices, Mobility, Pottery, Syria
Phone: (213) 821-6386
Email: amporter@email.usc.edu
 
Alison Dundes Renteln
Professor of Political Science
Research Areas: International Law, Human Rights, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Political and Legal Theory
Phone: (213) 740-3248
Email: arenteln@usc.edu
 

Research, Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty

Ran Boytner
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas: Archaeology of the Andes and the Near East, Archaeological Science, Evolutionary Theory, Ideology and Identity, Politics of Archaeology
Phone: (310) 825-3050
Email: boytner@usc.edu
 
Joseph R. Hawkins
Lecturer
Research Areas: Japan, Homosexuality, Elite Restaurants
Phone: (213) 740-0523
Email: jrhawkin@usc.edu
 
Erin Patrice Moore
Lecturer
Research Areas: India, South Asia, Gender, Kinship, Global Health, Performance of Healing, Mexico and Immigration, Law, Dispute Resolution, Justice
Phone: (213) 740-0515
Email: epm@usc.edu
 
Sadie S. Moore
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Research Areas:
Phone: (213) 740-1900
Email: ssm@email.usc.edu
 
Amy Randall Parish
Lecturer
Research Areas:
Phone: (213) 740-8286
Email: parish@usc.edu
 
Andre Singer
Adjunct Professor (research) of Anthropology
Research Areas:
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Tok Freeland Thompson
Lecturer
Research Areas: Folklore, Popular Culture, Translation Studies, Heritage, Minority Languages, the Internet
Phone: (213) 740-5195
Email: tokthomp@usc.edu
 
Thomas William Ward
Lecturer
Research Areas: Street Gangs, Urban Youth Gangs, Transnational Gangs, Central American Gangs, MS-13 Gang, 18th St. Gang
Phone: (213) 740-8222
Email: tww@usc.edu
 

Emeritus Faculty

Stephen Edelston Toulmin
University Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: Global Organization, History of Ideas, Methodology of Social Science
Phone: (213) 740-2136
Email: toulmin@usc.edu
 
Joan Weibel-Orlando
Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Research Areas: Urban Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Alcohol Studies, Aging, Ethnographic Field Methods, Medical Anthropology, North American Indians
Phone: (213) 740-1902
Email: weibel@usc.edu