Faculty

• ARNOLD, JEANNE E - jearnold@ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983 )
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Complex hunter-gatherers, craft specialization, emergence of complexity, theory, Pacific Coast prehistory, household archaeology, exchange systems, chiefdoms, political economy
• BARNARD, HANS - wendrich@barnard.nl
  Assistant Adjunct Professor (MD, Leiden University, 1990 & Ph.D. (Archaeology), Leiden University, 2008)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
  Research Interests: As an archaeological surveyor and photographer I have worked on sites in Armenia, Chile, Egypt, Iceland, Panama, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. I am also involved in research projects on the archaeology of mobile people, ceramic analysis and the Eastern Deserts in Egypt and Sudan.
• BIERMAN, IRENE - bierman@humnet.ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
  Chair, Department of Art History
  Research Interests: Architecture and Art of the Near East, Urban History of Near East and Mediterranean
• BOYD, ROBERT - rboyd@anthro.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California, Davis, 1975)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Biological anthropology, mathematical models of cultural evolution, evolutionary theory
• BRANTINGHAM, JEFFREY - branting@ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999)
  Vice Chair of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, simulation modeling, carnivore ecology, hunter-gatherers, stone technology, evolutionary theory; China, Mongolia, Tibet
• BROWN, ROBERT L. - rlbrown@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981)
  Department of Art History
  Research Interests: India and Southeast Asia
• BUCCELLATI, GIORGIO - buccella@ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965)
  Institutional history. History of religion. Historiography. Linguistics. Archaeology.
  Research Interests: Political institutions and the growth of the state in ancient Siro-Mesopotamia. – The religious experience in ancient Mesopotamia and its structural contrast with biblical religion. – Ethnic integration in ancient Syro-Mesopotamia in the third and second millennium BC, with particular reference to Amorites and Hurrians. – The archaeological and philological dimension of ancient historiography. – Staging the Past. Links <a href="http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/people/faculty/buccella/"> Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures</a> <a href="http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/people/faculty/faculty?lid=2383">Cotsen Institute of Archaeology</a> <a href="http://www.iimas.org">IIMAS–The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies</a>
• BURKE, AARON A. - burke@humnet.ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
  Research Interests: Archaeology of Warfare; State Formation; Complex Society; Bronze and Iron Age Levant
• BYOCK, JESSE - byock@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Harvard University)
  Department of Germanic Languages, Scandinavian Section
  Research Interests: Viking Age Scandinavia; Icelandic and Scandinavian archaeology, history, and political economy; feud and control of violence; sagas; the North Atlantic world
• CARTER, ELIZABETH F. - carter@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971)
  Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
  Research Interests: Near East, currently working in Turkey and southeastern Turkey; Bronze Age urban sites
• CHOU, HUNG-HSIANG - chou@humnet.ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D. Australia National University, 1968)
  Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC)
  Research Interests: Chinese Culture and Archaeology
• COONEY, KARA - cooney@ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2002)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
  Research Interests: Egyptology, gender issues of death in ancient Egypt, craft specialization, funerary arts in the ancient world, and ritual studies.
• DIELEMAN, JACCO - dieleman@humnet.ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2003)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
  Research Interests: Egyptology
• DONNAN, CHRISTOPHER - cdonnan@anthro.ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1968)
  Department of Anthropology and Director Emeritus of the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  Research Interests: South American archaeology, iconography, ancient technology
• DOWNEY, SUSAN B. - downey@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Yale University, 1963)
  Department of Art History
  Research Interests: Classical archaeology; Near East after the Greek conquest (ca. 300 BC–300 AD)
• ENGLUND, ROBERT K. - englund@ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Munich)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and Director, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  Research Interests: Assyriology and Sumerology
• FAVRO, DIANE - dfavro@ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
  Department of Architecture and Urban Design
  Research Interests: Architectural history
• FISKE, ALAN - afiske@ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Psychological anthropology, social theory, methodology; Africa
• GATTI, RICHARD A. - rgatti@mednet.ucla.edu
  Professor (M.D., St. Louis University Medical School, 1962)
  Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine
  Research Interests: Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Molecular Basis of Disease
• GOODWIN, CHARLES - cgoodwin@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977)
  Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL-ESL
  Research Interests: Applied Linguistics
• GOODWIN, MARJORIE - mgoodwin@anthro.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1978)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Ethnography of communication, human interaction, conversation analysis, language and gender, workplace ethnography, children's social organization
• JOHNSON, ALLEN - ajohnson@ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1968)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Cultural and political ecology, research design, psychological anthropology; native South America, Latin American communities
• KAKOULLI, IOANNA - kakoulli@ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil), University of Oxford, 1999)
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Chair, UCLA/Getty Conservation Program; Director Archaeomaterials Group
  Research Interests: Molecular and nano-archaeology; forensic archaeology & conservation; archaeological materials science; Hellenistic art and archaeology; multispectral imaging; global climate change and cultural heritage preservation.
• KENNEDY, GAIL - kennedy@anthro.ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D., St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, 1973)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Biological anthropology, Human evolution, Bioarchaeology, Evolutionary theory, Anthropological forensics, Paleopathology, Africa
• KLEIN, CECILIA F. - cklein@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972)
  Department of Art History
  Research Interests: Aztec art, ideology and politics, Gender rhetoric in Aztec art, Historiography of "Primitive" and Pre-Columbian Art, Early colonial Mexican art
• LATTIMORE, STEVEN - lattimor@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D.)
  Department of Classics
  Research Interests: Greek literature, history, and material culture. His courses covered literature, art and iconography, and Greek and Roman athletics.
• LESURE, RICHARD GARDNER - lesure@ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1995)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica
• LI, MIN - limin@humnet.ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008)
  Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
  Research Interests: Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics.
• MC DONNELL, KATHRYN J. - kmcdonnell@humnet.ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005)
  Department of Classics
  Research Interests: Roman art and archaeology, the archaeology of non-elites, the archaeology of gender, Latin epigraphy, and historical and Roman slavery.
• MCCALLUM, DONALD F. - mccallum@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., New York University, 1973)
  Department of Art History and Center for Japanese
  Research Interests: Art, Art History, Asia, Buddhist Studies, East Asia, Japan, Japanese Studies
• MORRIS, SARAH - sarahm@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1981)
  Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Department of Classics
  Research Interests: Prehistoric (Bronze Age) through classical archaeology of Greece; relations with Near East; "Homeric" archaeology
• PAPADOPOULOS, JOHN K. - jkp@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Sydney, 1988)
  Chair, Department of Classics
  Research Interests: Aegean prehistory; Greek and Italian archaeology, history and culture of the Classical and later periods; the archaeology of colonialism; the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past
• PEARLSTEIN, ELLEN - epearl@ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (M.A., Columbia University, 1978)
  Department of Information Studies and Conservation Program
  Research Interests: Plant materials used as paint binders or patination materials on archaeological and ethnographic objects; the developing role of preventive conservation; and conservation education.
• POSNANSKY, MERRICK - merrick@history.ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Nottingham University, 1956)
  Departments of Anthropology and History
  Research Interests: The archaeology of state formation and urban growth in Ghana and Togo; archaeology of the African Diaspora; cultural conservation and archaeological education in tropical Africa; postage stamps and national cultural policy.
• PREZIOSI, DONALD A. - preziosi@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Harvard University)
  Department of Art History
  Research Interests: Cultural studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and the arts and museologies of various ancient and modern societies
• READ, DWIGHT - dread@anthro.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, theory of social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification
• SACKETT, JAMES - jsackett@ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965)
  Director, CIOA European Laboratory
  Research Interests: Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) archaeology of France, history and theory of archaeology
• SCHACHNER, GREGSON - gschachner@anthro.ucla.edu
  Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2007)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: North American archaeology, origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies, settlement systems and analysis, ceramic analysis, social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest
• SCHNIEDEWIND, WILLIAM M. - williams@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 1992)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies
  Research Interests: Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages
• SCOTT, DAVID A. - dascott@ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University College London, 1982)
  Department of Art History and Chair, Conservation Program
  Research Interests: analysis of museum objects, the characterization of pigments, ancient metals and microstructure, the teaching of conservation, and the archaeometallurgy of preHispanic Colombia and Ecuador
• SINES, GEORGE H. - gsines@ucla.edu
  Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  Research Interests: Materials science, solid state physics, mechanical engineering and history of technology.
• SMITH, MONICA L - smith@anthro.ucla.edu
  Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997)
  Department of Anthropology
  Research Interests: Early urbanism, complex societies, comparative historical archaeology, anthropology of food, South Asia, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean
• STANISH, CHARLES S - stanish@anthro.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985)
  Department of Anthropology and Director, Cotsen Institute
  Research Interests: Andean archaeology, complex society, political economy
• VON FALKENHAUSEN, LOTHAR - lothar@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988)
  Department of Art History and Associate Director, Cotsen Institute
  Research Interests: Archaeology of China, East and Inner Asia, coordination of archaeological materials and historical sources on ancient China, economic history and history of science and technology
• WENDRICH, WILLEKE Z. - wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu
  Professor (Ph.D., Leiden University, 1999)
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
  Research Interests: Social context of crafts organization and specialization, ethnoarchaeology, practical use of symbolic space, visual archaeology and the study of regionality versus long distance contacts.