Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sharon Jean Traweek [1] is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles.Her book Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists, which explores the social world of particle physicists, has been cited in thousands of books and articles relating to the sociology of science and translated into Chinese in 2003.
Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a Cherokee-American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, who is known for his studies of the population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [1] [2] [3]
Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton (born 1968) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including work in sociophonetics, language and identity, ethnography and visual anthropology. [2] [3]
Paul V. Kroskrity (/ ˈ k r ɒ s k r ɪ t i /; born February 10, 1949) is an American linguistic anthropologist known primarily for his contributions to establishing and developing language ideology as a field of research. [1]
Alessandro Duranti (born September 17, 1950) [1] is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and served as Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA from 2009 to 2016. [2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. [1] [2] Ochs has conducted fieldwork in Madagascar, Italy, Samoa and the United States of America on communication and interaction. [3]
Jeanne E. Arnold was an American archaeologist who taught in the anthropology department at the University of California, Los Angeles.Her fields of research covered many topics, but she specialized in the prehistoric and early contact era of the Pacific Coast of North America, in California and British Columbia.
Meighan was hired as an instructor in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952 and continued at UCLA until his retirement in 1991. He founded UCLA's Archaeological Survey, chaired its anthropology department, and played key roles in several regional and national organizations.