Anthropology Faculty @ USC

Faculty interests in the department represent a broad range in anthropology with a general emphasis on ethnography and the problems of cultural representation. Faculty within the Department of Anthropology are actively engaged in research in the areas of ethnoecology; cultural, political and economic anthropology; ethnohistory; urban and applied anthropology; sociobiology; sociolinguistics; primatology; and ethnography.

(Click on faculty names in red below to see more detail about each person's research and professional background.)

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Christopher Boehm

(PhD Harvard 1972; Prof. and Dir. Jane Goodall Research Center)
Legal Anthropology, primate behavior, cultural evolution, conflict resolution, language evolution.
Regional Interest: Balkans [Serbs] and Africa

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Eugene Cooper

(PhD Columbia 1976; Prof.)
Political economy, anthropology of work, urban anthropology, social organization, peasants.
Regional Interest: East Asia

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Fadwa El Guindi

(PhD U Texas, 1972; Adjunct Professor)
Ritual & Belief, Women in the Middle East, Structural Theory, Field Methods, Zapotec Culture, Arab Islamic Culture, Ethnographic Film. Regional Interest: Latin America, Egypt, Arab-Americans

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Caleb Finch

(PhD Rockefeller 1969; Prof., Gerontology and Biological Sciences and Anth.)
Cell biology, mechanisms controlling postnatal development and aging in man and other mammals, Alzheimer's disease, study of genomic controls of mammalian development and aging.

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Gelya Frank

(PhD UCLA 1981; Prof., Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Anth.)
Medical anthropology, humanistic anthropology, disability, life history, interpretation theory, ethnographic genres.

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Jane Goodall

(PhD Cambridge 1965; Distinguished Adjunct Professor)
Primatology, Ethnography, occupational therapy.
Regional Interest: East Africa

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Janet Hoskins

(PhD Harvard 1984; Prof.)
Social Anthropology, ritual and communication, ethnopoetics, gender, social change.
Regional Interest: Indonesia, Southeast Asia

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Lanita Jacobs-Huey

(PhD UCLA 1999; Asst. Prof.)
Linguistic anthropology, Women's studies, African American women's discourse and hair care practice, Ethnographic Methods/Representation.
Regional Interest: USA

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Dorinne Kondo

(PhD Harvard 1982; Prof. Anth. and American Studies)
Asian American studies, Women's studies, Anthropology
Regional Interest: Japan, USA

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Nancy Lutkehaus

(PhD Columbia 1984; Assoc. Prof., Anth. and Gender Studies)
Melanesian gender and social organization, political and economic anthropology, symbolic anthropology.
Regional Interest: Oceania

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Cheryl Mattingly

(Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. Prof., Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Anth.)
Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, narrative and the phenomenology of illness and healing, culture of biomedicine, popular culture, race and health disparities.
Regional Interest: USA

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Alexander Moore

(PhD Columbia 1966; Prof.)
Anthropology and education,political anthropology, urban anthropology, ethnographic film, film criticism.
Regional Interest: Latin America

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Erin Moore

(PhD UC Berkeley 1991; Visiting Asst. Prof.)

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Amy Parish

(PhD UCal-Davis 1996; Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Behavioral ecology, captive primates; bonobos

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Gary Seaman

(PhD Cornell 1974; Assoc. Prof.; Co-Dir. Center for Visual Anthropology)
Ethnographic film, sociology, hypermedia in ethnography, ritual.
Regional Interest: China and Japan

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Andrei Simic

(PhD UCB 1969; Prof.)
Peasants, culture change, development, American ethnic groups, urbanization.
Regional Interest: Europe and Latin America

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Craig Stanford

(PhD UCB 1989; Prof.)
Primate behavior, and ecology, evolutionary theory, human evolution.
Regional Interest: South Asia and East Africa

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Stephen J. Toulmin

(PhD Cambridge U 1948; Luce Professor of Multi-ethnic and Transnational Studies)
Social theory, ethics, history and philosophy of science
Regional Interest: Europe

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Thomas W. Ward

(PhD UCLA 1987; Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Medical and psychological anthrology, urban ethnography, street gangs.
Regional Interest: Latin America, U.S.

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Joan Weibel-Orlando

(PhD UCLA 1977; Assoc. Prof.)
Urban Anthropology, applied anthropology, alcohol studies, aging, ethnographic field methods, medical anthropology
Regional Interest: North American Indians

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Walter Williams

(PhD U North Carolina 1974; Prof. Anth. and Gender Studies)
Ethnohistory,gender roles in cross-cultural perspective, homosexuality; North American Indians.
Regional Interest: North America and Indonesia

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Nayuta Yamashita

(PhD Northwestern 1996; Adjunct Prof.)
Primate diet and feeding behaviors.
Regional Interest: Madagascar

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