Anthropology and Museum Studies Department

College of the Sciences
Ellensburg
Dean Hall, room 357
Mail Stop 7544
509-963-3201
Fax: 509-963-3215

http://www.cwu.edu/anthropology
See website for how this program may be used for educational and career purposes.

Faculty and Staff
Chair
Lene Pedersen, PhD

Professors
Tracy J. Andrews, PhD, (emeritus),sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity, medical and ecological anthropology, gender, Native North America
Kathleen Barlow, PhD, (emeritus), psychological anthropology, learning and culture, museum anthropology, art and aesthetics, resource management
Steven Hackenberger, PhD, archaeology, cultural resource management, North America and Caribbean
Patrick Lubinski, PhD, archaeology, zooarchaeology, cultural resource management, North America
Patrick McCutcheon, PhD, archaeology, evolutionary and environmental archaeology, cultural resource management
Lene Pedersen, PhD, sociocultural anthropology, visual and environmental anthropology, postcolonialism, SE Asia (Indonesia), E. Africa, circumpolar North
Lori K. Sheeran, PhD, biological anthropology, primate ecology, gibbons, China
Penglin Wang, PhD, linguistic and cultural anthropology, East and Central/Inner Asia, China

Assistant Professors
J. Hope Amason, PhD, political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South
Raymond Hall, PhD, African folklore, Africana and Black Studies Program
Jessica Mayhew, PhD, Biological anthropology, primate behavior and socio-cognition, play behavior, Africa, Central America
Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia, PhD, Environmental anthropology, semiotics, linguistic anthropology, ritual and performance theory, visual anthropology; Northern Mexico and the borderlands

Staff
Penelope Anderson, secretary senior

Department Information
Anthropology jointly coordinates the master of science degree program in cultural and environmental resource management with the geography department. For further information, see cultural and environmental resource management.

Courses

Anthropology and Museum Studies (ANTH)