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WELCOME TO THE DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT CAL STATE FULLERTON!
The Division of Anthropology at CSUF has a long tradition of excellent
undergraduate and graduate education. We offer many opportunities for student
engagement through student clubs, research with faculty, and internships in the
community. We are a broad department that emphasizes integrative approaches
drawing from across the humanities and social and life sciences. Our faculty,
students, and staff have received a wide range of honors and awards and some of
their achievements are highlighted on this site. We encourage alumni to keep in
touch and prospective students to visit. We look forward to hearing from you!
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? WHAT DISTINGUISHES ANTHROPOLOGY FROM OTHER FIELDS THAT
STUDY HUMAN BEINGS?
Anthropologists study humans and their immediate ancestors. Anthropology
confronts and ponders major questions about past, present and future human
existence. Where did we come from? What are we now and where are we
going?Anthropology differs from the other social sciences in its emphasis on
understanding human diversity and adaptability across time AND space.
In the USA, the academic discipline of Anthropology includes four main
subdisciplines
* Cultural anthropology - the study of societies of the present and recent past
* Archaeological anthropology - the study of ancient and more recent societies
through analysis of their material remains
* Biological anthropology (also known as physical or evolutionary anthropology)
- the study of human biological variation through space and time
* Linguistic anthropology - the study of language in its cultural and social
contexts
Why include four subdisciplines in the same academic discipline? Just as
anthropologists believe that a solid understanding of human nature cannot come
from studying a single nation, society or cultural tradition, anthropologists
believe that in order to fully understand our own species, we need knowledge of
both human biology and culture, past and present.
The Division of Anthropology at CSUF is proud to offer courses and expertise in
all four subdisciplines of Anthropology.
NAGPRA
Please direct all NAGPRA and CalNAGPRA inquiries to repatration@fullerton.edu.
NEWS
* Congratulations to Cultural Anthropology MA student Yajaira Vilchis-Alvarez
on being awarded a 2024 Digital Ethnic Futures Student Research Fellowship,
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium.
* Ahmed Afzal, has a new chapter publication in Beyond Hooking Up: Tales from
Grindr in Pakistan. In Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, edited by
Omar Kasmani, p. 184-202. Durham: Duke University Press. November 2023.
* Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Afzal, who has been awarded a Short-Term
Research Grant from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies to travel to
Pakistan during winter break to carry out follow-up research on the uses of
social networking apps in Pakistan.
* Congratulations to Dr. Sara Johnson on receiving a One Book One CSUF
Incentive Grant Award.
* Eric Schniter, anthroplogy lecturer, has a new publication "“Cultural
transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane
forager-farmers”
* Division of Anthropology Commencement 2022
* "Grad (Amaris Aloise, B.A. in anthropology and public administration) Shares
How Anthropology Students Have ‘Qualities That Every Field Requires."
* Congratulations to Dr. Phuoc Duong, our lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and
Asian-American Studies, for receiving the Outstanding Lecturer Award from HSS
this year.
* Brenda Bowser, professor of anthropology, presented "Seeking Refuge in a
Predatory Landscape: An Amazonian Perspective" at the Society for American
Archaeology conference in March 2022. The presentation was part of the
session “Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Indigenous Responses to
Colonialism and the Archaeological Record” co-organized by Brenda Bowser and
Catherine Cameron.
* Congratulations to Amaris Aloise for acceptance to Vanderbilt University Law
School in Nashville, Tennessee for Fall 2022! Amaris will complete her BA at
CSUF in Spring 2022 as a University Honors student with a double-major in
Anthropology and Public Administration.
* Congratulations to Bradley Christin for being accepted to the Ph.D. program
in Anthropology at UC-Davis! Bradley will be continuing his research in
primate conservation by studying bushmeat market impacts on gorillas in the
Congo. Bradley is a Peace Corps Coverdell Fellow in our MA program. As a
Peace Corps volunteer, Bradley taught environmental education in primary and
secondary schools in Paraguay. He organized tree-planting events, garbage
cleanups, and taught English and basketball. For his MA research, Bradley
compared the activity budgets of wild Gelada monkeys in Highland Ethiopia
with captive Geladas at the San Diego Zoo. Bradley will continue his work in
primate conservation as a member of Dr. Damien Caillaud’s Behavioral Ecology
Lab at UC Davis this Fall. For his dissertation research, Bradley will be
conducting fieldwork in the Central Republic of the Congo to study the impact
of the bushmeat trade on gorilla populations and people.
* Congratulations to Simone Muhammad! Simone has been selected to receive a
2022 Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship (HUGS) from the Society
for American Archaeology. The $3000 scholarship will be used to fund her
graduate research with the Estate Little Princess Project in St. Croix this
summer.
* Congratulations to Jeffrey Harris for acceptance to the PhD program in
Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Jeff has been awarded a
Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship, as well as a teaching assistantship and
tuition waiver to begin Fall 2022. Jeff is completing his MA degree in the
Archaeology Program now. His interests are bioarchaeology and forensics
anthropology. Jeff completed his BA in Anthropology at CSU Fullerton, as
well. Jeff was a 2018 recipient of the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral
Scholarship in the CSU Pre-Doctoral Program. At CSUF, he has been awarded a
2018 International Field School in Brazil Scholarship, 2018 Kelley McArthur
Memorial Scholarship, 2016 International Field School in Brazil Scholarship,
and a 2016 Ralph and Marion Marshall Curation Award. Additionally, he was
awarded a 2019 CSU California Pre-Doctoral Summer Research Internship, which
he completed at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
* Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Afzal, he has been awarded a Pollak Library's
Open Fullerton Fellowship, a selective program that provides support and
resources to transform an upcoming course to zero-cost utilizing open
educational resources.
* Congratulations to Amaris Aloise (Anthropology major) for earning 4th place
in the National Brief Writing Championship with teammate Kristin Sinks (out
of 350 teams!) in the 2021 American Moot Court Association National
Championship Tournament. Read the story here:
* Congratulations to Dr. Raffaella Commitante on her new publication
“Evaluating the contribution of a wildlife health capacity building program
on orangutan conservation” in the American Journal of Primatology.
* Congratulations to Alexandra Jonassen, CSUF incoming graduate student (MA in
Anthropology), who presented "Application of the Geospatial Method to
On-Floor Assemblages: A Case Study from the Classic Maya City of El Palmar,
Mexico" at the Society for American Archaeology conference in April 2021.
* Congratulations to Karla Gaspar, CSUF alumna (BA Anthropology 2019), who
presented "Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes: Thinking through
Knowledge Transmission and Community Making in and beyond Craft Production"
at the Society for American Archaeology conference in April 2021.
* Kudos to Richard George, CSUF alumnus (MA Anthropology 2013), who co-authored
"Pre-Columbian Transregional Captive Rearing of Amazonian Parrots in the
Atacama Desert" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April
2021. After receiving his PhD in Anthropology at Pennsylvania State
University in 2020, he is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
* Congratulations to Victoria Ramirez, CSUF alumna (BA Anthropology 2017), who
was selected for a 2021 summer internship in archaeology by the National Park
Service at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. Victoria is now a graduate
student in the MS Program in Cultural Resources Management at Utah State
University in Logan.
* Steven James, professor of anthropology, presented "Two Pioneering California
Women Archaeologists, 1940s–1960s: Agnes Bierman Babcock and Freddie Curtis"
at the Society for American Archaeology conference in April 2021.
* John Bock, professor of anthropology was awarded $15,397 from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University for the “CNH2-L: Human Waste and
its Role in Creating Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems at the
Urban-Wilderness Continuum in Africa; Humans, Wildlife, Domestic Animals and
Microbes” project. Sponsor: National Science Foundation.
* Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Afzal, he has published two book chapters in
peer-reviewed edited volumes; the first essay is titled "Pakistani Families"
and appears in the book, Asian Families in Canada and the United States:
Implications for Mental Health and Well-being, edited by Susan Chuang et al.,
p. 161-183. NY: Springer Press. April 2021 and the second essay is titled "“I
Want a Yaar”: Pakistani Muslim American gay men and transnational same-sex
sexual cultures in the West" and appears in the book, Gender, Sexuality,
Decolonization: South Asia in the World Perspective, edited by Ahonaa Roy, p.
137-159. Abingdon, UK & New York, NY: Routledge. December 2020.
* Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Afzal, his book, Lone Star Muslims:
Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas, has been named
to a list of Essential Readings on Islam in the United States.
* Kudos to Karen Stocker! The CSUF Grand Central Art Center exhibition
catalog, “Regionalia,” received accolades in the 29th annual Museum
Publications Design Competition presented by the American Alliance of
Museums. “Regionalia” was recognized for its “overall design excellence,
creativity and ability to express an institution’s personality, mission or
special features.” The catalog features text from Karen Stocker, professor of
anthropology, and a foreword by John D. Spiak, Grand Central Art Center
director/chief curator.
* Congratulations to Dr. Edward Knell, professor of anthropology, co-authored
two related papers: “The Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at Lamb
Spring, Colorado” in Plains Anthropologist and “New Radiocarbon Dates from
the Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at the Lamb Spring Site, Douglas
County, Colorado” in PaleoAmerica.
* Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Grant, assistant professor of anthropology,
published a chapter titled “What’s in a Wet Market?” in the book “Teaching
About Asia in a Time of Pandemic” and a chapter titled “Cosmopolitan Coffee
Aspirations in Contemporary Vietnam” in “Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban
Asia.”
* Congratulations to Jeffrey Harris, Archaeology M.A. student! Jeff has been
accepted into the February 2021 Cohort of the Rancho Santiago Community
College District Rancho Academy program. Congratulations to Marlene Barraza
and Nehemiah Rodriguez, too, U-ACRE alums (both MA Anthropology 2020 in
Evolutionary Anthropology), who completed the Rancho Academy program in
2020!! The Rancho Academy is an initiative to mentor and train the next
generation of leaders in the community college system, with an aim to develop
a highly skilled, diverse pool of talent to draw upon for teaching and
administrative positions.
* Dr. Ahmed Afzal, Dr. Sarah Grant, and Dr. Steven R. James each received an
award for Outstanding Service (2020)
* Dr. Karen Stocker's new blog post: 2020 Solidarity in Protest: A New
Textbook Highlighting Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica. University
of Toronto Press Blog
* Titan Magazine: U-ACRE students, Sara Johnson, and John Bock, "Arboretum
Buzzes With Beehive Research" (Spring 2020)
* Titan Magazine: U-ACRE students, Sara Johnson, and John Bock, "Lessons From
the Lowly Sweet Potato" (Spring 2020)
* CSUF News Service: "Brenda Bowser, professor of anthropology, was appointed
editor of the international journal Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of
Archaeological, Ethnographic and Experimental Studies." (3/12/2020)
* The Daily Titan: Dr. Elizabeth and alumna Jaclyn Magginetti's new
study-"Women's Sexual Strategies in Pregnancy" (3/17/2020)
* "The Amazon is this anthropologist's classroom," Dr. John Patton was
interviewed by the Daily Titan (2/4/2020)
* The OC Register: "CSUF student researchers look to sweet potatoes as
natural alernative in fighting aggressive weed"
* Anthropology major participates in National Science Foundation Fellowship!
Congratulations Rachel Heil!
* Dr. Sara Johnson Honored for Planting Urban Agriculture Research Program
(8/27/19)
* Dr. Nga Nguyen granted Fulbright Award to Study Preschool Children in
Norway (6/24/19)
* Congratulations to Titan anthropologist Rachel Heil (Evolutionary
Anthropology) for receiving the National Science Foundation
Undergraduate Research Fellowship (5/28/19)
* ""A is for Arboretum, not Asphalt" published in the CSUF Senate Forum by
John Bock, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for
Sustainability
* U-ACRE students and faculty in Anthropology play an important role in urban
agriculture research adn community engagement at Arboretum farm (4/8/19)
* Dr. Peter Fashing and Dr. Nga Nguyen received mention in a recent National
Geographic article: "These tough-looking monkeys eke out a living at 11,000
feet" (3/31/19)
* A Window Into The Amazon: Cal State Fullerton researchers examine life
among the tribal community (2/23/19)
* Congraulations to MA student Marco Moreno for being named Outstanding
Student (Scholarly and Creative Activities) in the College of Humanities
and Social Sciences
* The Association for Primate Evolutionary Studies (APES) is hosting a talk
on Monday, February 4 from 1:00-2:15pm in Humanities (H) 123: Dr. Colleen
Fitzpatrick, Forensic Geneologist will be speaking about her work
(1/30/19)
* Congratulations to MA student Jeffrey Harris for being named a 2018-19
Sally Casanova Scholar! (10/10/18)
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