Cultural/Social Anthropology
Cultural anthropology is the holistic (integrated) study of what people think, make and do as members of societies around the world. The WSU anthropology program has strengths in kinship, gender, childhood & child development, cultural & behavioral ecology, environmental anthropology, issues of globalization and sustainability, health behavior, foragers, peasants, media, art and work, psychological anthropology, ethnobotany, language, and religion. Faculty and students work around the globe in Central Africa, India, Polynesia, Amazonia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Northwest of North America. The department also offers an International Program in Environmental Anthropology at the graduate level.
Cultural Anthropology Faculty
Dr. John H. Bodley
Interests: Growth, scale and power, networks and complexity theory, evolutionary anthropology globalization and sustainability issues, Pacific Northwest of North America, Amazonia, Indigenous Peoples.
Email: bodleyj@wsu.edu
Dr. Barry S. Hewlett
Interests: Medical anthropology, hunters and gatherers, infant and child development, evolutionary cultural anthropology, international development. Sub-Saharan Africa (on the Vancouver campus)
Email: hewlett@vancouver.wsu.edu
Dr. Jeannette M. Mageo
Interests: Cultural theory, psychological anthropology, ethnohistory, dreams, narratives, gender and sexuality, religion, discourse. Oceania
Email: jmageo@wsu.edu
Dr. Nancy P. McKee
Interests: Cultural anthropology, linguistics, ethnicity, modernization, Third World development, Mexican Americans
Email: npmckee@wsu.edu
Dr. Courtney L. Meehan
Interests: Hunters and gatherers, evolutionary theory, infant development Sub-Saharan Africa
Email: cmeehan@wsu.edu
Dr. Marsha B. Quinlan
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, Ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, psychological anthropology, maternal and child health. Caribbean, South America
Email: mquinlan@wsu.edu
Dr. Robert Quinlan
Interests: Behavioral ecology, demography, medical anthropology, ethnography, parenting, child development, alcoholism, kinship and families. Caribbean
Email: rquinlan@wsu.edu
Dr. Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber
Interests: Gender and work, art, colonialism, cinema. South Asia (on the Vancouver campus)
Email: weberc@vancouver.wsu.edu
Temporary faculty:
Dr. Shila Baksi
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, linguistics, culture change, untouchables, gender and culture. India
Email: sbaksi@mail.wsu.edu
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