Anthropology and Museum Studies
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Full-time Faculty
Hope Amason (PhD, cultural anthropology) Museum Studies Minor Coordinator. Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South; [email protected]
Steven Hackenberger (PhD, archaeology) Cultural ecology, cultural resource management, North America, Meso-America and Caribbean cultures; [email protected]
Nicole Jastremski (PhD, biological anthropology) Forensics Certificate Program Coordinator. Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador; [email protected]
Patrick Lubinski (PhD, archaeology) On sabbatical 2025-2026. Zooarchaeology, methods, cultural resource management, western North America; [email protected]
Jessica Mayhew (PhD, biological anthropology) Primate social behavior and socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, the large-bodied apes, play behavior; [email protected]
Patrick McCutcheon (PhD, archaeology) Evolutionary theoretical perspectives, fieldwork and laboratory methods, archaeometry, lithic analysis, cultural resource management, North American prehistory; [email protected]
Lene Pedersen (PhD, cultural anthropology) On sabbatical 2025-2026. Visual anthropology, symbolic anthropology, ecological anthropology, ritual, social organization, post-colonialism, southeast Asia (Indonesia), circumpolar north, sub-saharan Africa, natural resource management; [email protected]
Lori Sheeran (PhD, biological anthropology) Department Chair. Primates of Asia, primate conservation, primate social behavior; [email protected]
Karisa Terry (PhD, archaeology) Director of Museum of Culture & Environment. Paleolithic adaptations, hunter-gatherer-fishers, migration, evolutionary archaeology, chipped stone, ceramics, Northeast Asia; [email protected]
Penglin Wang (PhD, linguistic anthropology) Linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cultural anthropology, Asian studies, Central Eurasia, China; [email protected]
Staff and Part-time Faculty
Penelope Anderson (BA, Secretary Senior/Administrative Assistant) [email protected]
Lynn Bethke (MA, Museum of Culture & Environment Collections Manager) Museum collections care, object preservation, museum technology, museum administration, exhibit design; [email protected]
Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon (MA, NAGPRA Director) Repatriation, indigenizing bioarcheology/human remains documentation, restorative methodologies, histories of collecting and collectors, intangible cultural heritage, North America; [email protected]
Doug McFarland (MA, Research Associate, CWU Faculty Fellow) Archaeology, cultural resource management; [email protected]
J.B. Mulcahy (MA, Lecturer) Primatology; [email protected]
Angela Neller (MA, Lecturer, Research Associate) Museums, repatriation, rights of indigenous peoples, curation, community collaboration, indigeneity and decolonization, cultural resource management; Columbia Plateau, Hawaii
Megan Partlow (PhD, Research Associate) Zooarchaeology, Alaska; [email protected]
Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia (PhD, Dean of Graduate Studies) Environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, visual anthropology, ritual and performance theory, human geography, maritime anthropology, indigenous studies, the greater Southwest (including northern Mexico); [email protected]
Isabelle Sarton Miller (PhD, Senior Lecturer, Research Associate) Biological anthropology; [email protected]
Emeritus Faculty
Kathleen Barlow (PhD, cultural anthropology)
Linda Klug (PhD, linguistic anthropology)
William Smith (PhD, archaeology)
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