Anthro 3000 Anthropology in the Modern World
Anthro 3730 Anthropology on the Internet
Anthro 4910 Pro-Seminar in Anthropology
Anthro 6400 Seminar in Socio-Cultural Anthropology

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Recent Scholarship:

2004 "The Drama Unfolds: Tuluva Myth and Ritual in Its Western Stage.”  Indian Folklore Research Journal.

2005 "Near and Far: Advantages of Studying Folklore as Discourse." Indian Folklore Research Journal

2004. South Asian Folklore, An Encyclopedia. (Jointly edited with Margaret Mills and Sarah Diamond). New York: Routledge.

2002 Book Review, "The Siri Epic, by Lauri Honko (in collaboration with Chiinnappa Gowda, et. al)". Anthropos.

2001 "Variability in the Tulu Paddanas." In Cahiers de Littérature Orale

2001 Essays in Performance Analysis. Shimoga, India: Kuvempu University Press.

2000 "The Concept of 'Mental Text.'" National Folklore Support Centre Newsletter, Special edition on Folklore Syncretism.

H. Glynn Custred

		Position:	Professor of Anthropology (Linguistics)
		Office:	MI 1009 (510) 885-3196 glynn.custred@csueastbay.edu Office Hours: TBA
		Education:	B.A., 1962, European History, Indiana University M.A., 1965, Latin American History, Indiana University Ph.D., 1973, Anthropology, Indiana University
		Courses Taught:	Anthro 1800 Introduction to Linguistics Anthro 3800 Language and Culture Anthro 3840 Folklore Anthro 3840 Magic, Witchcraft and Religion Anthro 3510 South America Anthro 3410 Folklore Anthro 6600 Special Topics Anthro 6800 Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology

Recent Scholarship: 1990: The Primacy of Standard Language in Modern Education. American Behavioral Scientist 334: 232-239. 1977: Peasant Kinship, Kinship Subsistence and Economics in A High Altitude Andean Environment. In Andean Kinship and Marriage Special Publication of the American Anthropological Assn., No. 7.

Research Interests: Professor Custred's most recent activities has been on border issues, with various articles for the popular press as well as for the Center for Immigration Studies (See "Borders of North America" in the Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder series www.cis.org). He has also written on the use of oral and linguistic material for the assessment of cultural affiliation for the Center for the Study of the First Americans and in an amicus curiae brief for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on oral traditions and cultural affiliation in the case of the Kennewick Man (www.friendsofpast.org). He has also written an article, "Folk Speech" for the Sage Publication's Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

George R. Miller

		Positions:	Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology) Director of the C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology
		Office:	MI 1115, (510) 885-3197, 885-3104 george.miller@csueastbay.edu Office Hours: TBA
		Education:	B.S. in Zoology, 1966, University of San Francisco M.A. in Anthropology, 1974, University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1979, University of California, Berkeley.
		Courses Taught:	Anthro 1200 Introduction to Archaeology Anthro 3200 Science in Archaeology Anthro 3250 Precolumbian America Anthro 3260 Historical Archaeology Anthro 3280 Preconquest Mexico Anthro 3710 Anthropology and Museums Anthro 3790 Anthropology and Genealogy Anthro 4240 Archaeological Data Analysis Anthro 4250 Field Course in Archaeology Anthro 6200 Seminar in Archaeology WS 3510 Women in Myth and Prehistory Click here for course material and syllabus

Recent Scholarship in prep Virtual Machu Picchu: A Computer Interactive.  DVD 2006 Ernie Ebayley's Adventure in DNA-Land: A Resource for Beginnng Your Own Adventure in Genealogical Genetics. C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropolgy. 2004 An Investigation of Cuzco Inca Ceramics: Cannons of Form, Proportion and Size. Nawpa Pacha 25-26:57-83. 2003: Food for the Dead, Tools for the Afterlife: Zooarchaeology at Machu Picchu. Yale Univeristy Publications in Anthropology, No. 85, pp. 1 - 63. 2000: Ch'arki at Chavín: Ethnographic Models and Archaeological Data. American Antiquity 65(3):573-576. (with Richard L. Burger). 1998: Ideología Religiosa y Utilización de Animales en Chavín de Huantar. In Excavaciones en Chavín de Huantar by Richard L. Burger, Appendix H, pp. 262-302. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. 1996: "Stalking the Dwarf Llama: Zooarchaeology at Pirincay, Ecuador." 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April, 1996. 1996: "Upstairs, Downstairs: Insights from the Machu Picchu Grave Lots." 36th Annual Meeting of the Instittute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, January, 1996 (with Lucy Salazar-Burger). 1995: Our Father the Cayman, Our Dinner the Llama: Animal Utilization at Chavin de Huantar, Peru. American Antiquity 60(3):421-458 (with Richard L. Burger.)

Research Interests Dr. Miller lists three current research interests: 1) Andean zooarchaeology, particularly around issues concerning the domestication and taphonomy of the South American camelid species (llama, alpaca, vicuña, and guanaco); 2) the historical archaeology of the San Francisco Bay Area, especially that of the overseas Chinese; 3) the Machu Picchu Virtual Reality Project; 4) ancestral DNA studies.

Laura Nelson

		Position:	Assistant Professor (Applied and Cultural) and Associate Chair
		Office:	MI 3089 (510) 885-7509 laura.nelson@csueastbay.edu
		Education:	BA, 1983, Renaissance Studies, Brown University MA, 1987, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University MCP (Masters of City and Regional Planning), 1991, University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D., 1997, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
		Courses Taught:	Anthro 1000 Introduction to Anthropology Anthro 1006 Viewing Diversity Anthro 3000 Anthropology of the Modern World Anthro 3400 Social Anthropology Anthro 3550 Japan Anthro 3730 Anthropology on the Internet Anthro 3750 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective Anthro 3760 Media in Cross-Cultural Pespective Anthro 3765 Business Anthropology Anthro 3785 Anthropology in Action Anthro 4910 Pro-Seminar in Anthropology Anthro 6700 Applied Anthropology Anthro 6770 Internship Planning and Analysis Anthro 6790 Post-Internship Seminar Anthro 6999 Special Topics: Anthropology of Time

Recent Scholarship: 2003: "Intensive Qualitative Research: Challenges, Best Uses, and Opportunities." MRDC Working Paper on Research Methodology. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 2003: "Supporting CalWORKs Students at California Community Colleges: An Exploratory Focus Group Study." New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 2000: Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea. New York: Columbia University Press.

Research Interests: Dr. Nelson's research interests are focused on two areas. She has published a book, "Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea," on economic and social change in South Korea, and continues to look at consumer life in that country. She has two projects in development for this area, one on credit cards and one on changing demographics in South Korea. She's also interested in the anthropology of public policies in this country, particularly from an applied perspective.  She is conducting interviews with women in the Bay Area who participated between 6 and 10 years ago in microenterprise programs aiming to help them achieve self-sufficiency to find out what their experiences have been with self-employment.

David Matsuda

		Position:	Lecturer in Anthropology and Human Development
		Office:	MI 4060 (510) 885-3168 davidmatsuda@rcn.com Office Hours:TBA
		Education:	BA, 1991, Archaeology, CSUEB MA, 1993, Anthropology, CSUEB Ph.D., 1997, Anthropology, Union University.
		Courses Taught:	Anthro 1000 Introduction to Anthropology Anthro 1300 Introduction to Anthropology Anthro 3840 Introduction to Anthropology

Recent Scholarship: 2003: Subsistance Digging in and Around the Central American country of Belize. American Cultural Policy Institute 2002: Research Publications entered into the Congressional Record. Cultural Heritage Commitee, United States Congress 2002: World Issues Working Group on Ecotourism. American Association for the Advancement of Science 1998: Advanced Research Seminar on Cultural Heritage. School of American Research 1997: Co-Chair, Conference on Substance Digging in Latin America. Ford Foundation 1997: The Ethics of Archaeology: Substance Digging, Artifact Looting and Archaeology in Latin America; Point, Muted Counterpoint. International Journal of Cultural Property 1995: Some Notes on Huecheros (Artifact Looters) in and around Belize: A Regional History of Civil Violence and the Simultaneous rise of Huecherismo (Artifact Looting). TheJournal of Belizean Archaeology 1995: Some Thoughts on Ancient and Contemporary Social Organization in Belize: A Huechero Illustration. In The Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of Maya Archaeology 1994: Artifacts, Seeds, and Ancestors Gifts: Latin American Artifact Looters and Subsistence Metaphor. Graduate Review 1994: Looted Artifacts: Seeds of Changer in Latin America. Anthropos

Research Interests: Dr. Matsuda is currently doing research on the looting of Mesoamerican archaeological sites by indigenous people termed Huecheros.

Beverly Ortiz

	Position:	Lecturer in Anthropology (Socio-cultural)
	Office:	MI 4063 (510) 885-3196 beverly.ortiz@csueastbay.edu by appointment
	Education:	1979, Environmental Planning and Management, U.C. Davis M.A., 1994, Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley Ph.D., In Process
	Courses Taught:	Anthro 3500 North American Indians Anthro 3505 Indians of California Anthro 3520 Contact Period of California Click here for course material and Syllabus.

Recent Scholarship: 1989-Present: Contributing Editor/Skills and Technology Columnist, News from Native California. 2003-04: Karuk Ethnobotany/Life History, Challenge Cost Share Agreement with Six Rivers National Forest and California Indian Basketweavers Association, in process. 2003-04: "Recent History, 1928-2003," Ohlone History/Golden Gate National Recreation Area Traditional Associations Study, in process. 2002: Listen to the Water; Eating Poison Oak: Alex Ramirez's Childhood in Gathering of Voices: The Native Peoples of the Monterey Bay Region, Linda Yamane, ed., Santa Cruz County History Journal 2-4, 157-160. 2002: Sudden Oak Death and California Indian Cultural Traditions. The Museum of California 26(2):10-11. 1997: Background Information Concerning Tribal Restoration, The Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria {with Theodoratus, et. al.], report submitted to Congress. 1996: It Will Live Forever: Yosemite Miwok/Paiute Acorn Making. Berkeley: Heyday Books. 1996: The Pomo. The Encyclopedia of the American Indian (with Kathleen Smith). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1994: Chochenyo and Rumsen Narratives: A Comparison. The Ohlone Past and Present, Lowell John Bean, ed. Menlo Park: Ballena Press. 1993: California Indian Basketweavers and the Environment. Before the Wilderness, Environmental Management by Native Californians, Thomas Blackburn and Kat Anderson, eds. Menlo Park: Ballena Press. 1989: Mount Diablo as Myth and Reality: An Indian History Convoluted. American Indian Quarterly 13(4):457-470.

Research Interests: North American Indians, Ethnic Identity, Globalization, Life History, Ethnobotany, and Folklore. Current research projects include a study of "The Contemporary Practice of California Indian Basketry: Persistence, Change, Identity, and Transnationalism."

Rita Ross

		Position:	Lecturer in Anthropology (Socio-cultural)
		Office:	MI 4063 (510) 885-3196 rita.ross@csueastbay.edu Office Hours: T 5:30-6:30 PM, R 1:00-2:00 PM, and by appointment
		Education:	B.A., 1982, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley M.A., 1984, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., 1993, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
		Courses Taught:	Anthro 1000 Introduction to Anthropology Anthro 2755 Conflict and Law Anthro 3410 Folklore Anthro 3745 Human Sexuality Anthro 3800 Language and Culture

	Recent Scholarship: From Poem to Proverb: What Is Candy Dandy For? Revision of conference paper. Frogsí and `Newfiesí: Blason Populaire in Canada.Revison of conference paper. Potatoes, Pork, and White Buttons: Folklore of the `Acadian National Dish. Revision of conference paper. In progress: study of Acadian family reunions.
	Research Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology; folklore; gender; language; ethnicity and multiculturalism. Area specializations Canada, North America, and Europe, with particular focus on minorities and women.

Emeritus Faculty
Lowell Bean Edward Jay Lindy Li Mark Harry Nimmo John Rothenberger