Faculty and Staff
Administrative Support
Jennifer Hidalgo
- Location: RO 211
- Ph: 510.885.3193
- Email: jennifer.hidalgo@csueastbay.edu
Museum Support
Marjorie Rhodes-Ousley – Museum of Anthropology
- Location: MI 4038
- Ph: 510.885.7414
- Email: marjorie.rhodesousley@csueastbay.edu
Permanent Faculty
Karina Garbesi – Professor Emerita & Director, Environmental Studies Program
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (Energy and Resources Group)
Interests: energy, environment, society, sustainability, security. Social impact solar
Courses: Energy & Society, Environmental Resource Analysis, Solar Design, Sustainability and Social Justice
Albert Gonzalez – Associate Professor & Director, C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology
Ph.D., Southern Methodist University (Anthropology)
Interests: Indigenous and Latinx Material Culture, Foodways, and Health; Industrialization, Ecology, and Conflict; Architectural Energetics (Adobe Construction and Foodways); Community-Engaged Research
Courses: Intro Archaeology, Museum Studies in Anthropology, Advanced Anthropological Theory, Field Archaeology
David Larson – Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (Geography)
Interests: historical geography, environmental history, environmental impacts, water, American West
Courses: Literature & Research Methods, Environmental Projects, Historical Geography of North America
Michael Lee – Professor and Chair
Ph.D., London School of Economics (Geography)
Interests: water, food, aquaculture, development, sustainability
Courses: Sustainable Food Systems, Water and Watershed Resources, Sustainable Communities & Development, Senior Seminar
Ph.D. International Institute of Social Studies (Hague, Netherlands) (Development Studies and Political Ecology)
Interests: food systems, social justice, sustainability, international food policy, political ecology
Courses: Sustainable Food Systems, Environment, Sustainability, and Social Justice, Sustainable Communities and Development
Tony Marks-Block – Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford (Anthropology)
Interests: ecological anthropology, indigenous sovereignty, political ecology of land management, environmental justice
Courses: Anthropology of Global Change, Anthropology in Action, Fire Ecology & Management, Political Ecology, Field Course in Ethnography, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Andrew Wong – Professor & Director, Global Studies Program
Ph.D. Stanford (Anthropology)
Interests: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language and sexuality, China
Courses: Language and Culture, Anthropology of Global Change, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, China
Lecturers
Alan Almquist (Professor Emeritus)
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (Anthropology)
Interests: human evolution, the human fossil record, primate social behavior
Courses: Evolutionary Biology of Humans, Human Fossil Record, Primate Behavioral Ecology, Human Sexuality
Sharla Blank
Ph.D., U.C. San Diego (Sociocultural Anthropology)
Interests: social anthropology, psychological anthropology, human sexuality
Courses: Human Sexuality: Anthropological Perspectives, Social Anthropology
Kelly Decker
Ph.D., Ohio State University (Ecology)
Interests: soil microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystems
Course: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
Elena Givental
Ph.D., U.C. Davis (Geography)
Interests: physical geography, climate change, water resources, economic geography, Asia
Courses: Climate Change, Water and Watershed Resources, California, World Regions and Development
Brian Gleeson
M.A., San Francisco State University (Anthropology)
Interests: California and North American Indians, indigenous peoples, ethnohistory
Course: Indians of California
Lisa Handwerker
Ph.D., UC San Francisco (Medical Anthropology)
MPH, UC Berkeley (Masters in Public Health)
Interests: cross-cultural health, gender, medical reproductive technologies, ethics, modern China
Courses: Medical Anthropology, Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Anthropology of Global Change
Catherine King
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Interests: environmental sustainability, environmental health, sustainable human rights
Course: Sustainable Communities and Development
Adrian Taylor
Ph.D., Howard University (African Studies)
Interests: Africana studies, global human security, international relations
Course: Africa
Priyanka Vyas
Ph.D. The University of Texas, Dallas (Public Policy and Political Economy)
Interests: GIS and urban health, spatial approaches to public health and policy planning, spatial equity
Courses: Fundamentals of G.I.S., Advanced G.I.S.
Ellen Woodard
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (Wildland Resource Science)
Interests: natural resource management, field methods, biogeography, wildlife conservation strategies
Courses: Applied Field Studies, Environmental Impact Analysis, Energy & Society, California