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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 »

Donald L Brenneis

Donald L Brenneis

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Anthropology Department

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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 »

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of the UCSC Archaeological Research Center, Associate Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute

Anthropology Department

Areas 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  

Kimberly Adilia Helmer

Kimberly Adilia Helmer

Teaching Professor (Senate Faculty)

Writing Program, Stevenson College

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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... more »

James Battle

James Battle

Associate Professor of Sociology

Sociology Department

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: 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 »

Vanessa Moreno Wilcox

Vanessa Moreno Wilcox

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Latin American & Latino Studies

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 currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz where she is conducting a research project titled "Mexicana and Chicana Placemaking as Social Justice Activism in Northern California" utilizing archival materials from the Dolores Huerta Papers and Dolores Huerta Foundation Papers under the mentorship of Dr. Gabriela F. Arredondo. She is the daughter of Mexican migrants and was raised in the San Joaqu... more »

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