Executive Board 2009–2010

To see photographs of the board members, click on the names below. Note that it is also possible to cycle through the photographs by clicking inside of the image; click on the right side for the next board member's photograph, and on the left side for the previous board member's.

Bill Fairbanks, Chair (2007–2010)
  • Bill Fairbanks, Ph.D. UCSB 1975, taught for many years in the Anthropology Program at Cuesta College, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2007. His professional interests include community college teaching, California Indians, the contemporary United States, and the anthropology of ideology and fantasy.
  • Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California
  • Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Program
  • bcfairbanks@charter.net
Erin Stiles, President (2009–2010)
  • Erin Stiles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her areas of interest include Islam, East Africa, the anthropology of law, gender and religious practice.
  • University of Nevada, Reno
  • Department of Anthropology
  • estiles@unr.edu
Beth Townsend, Vice President (2009–2010)
  • Beth Townsend is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. Her area of interest is the evolution and paleoecology of both Tertiary primates and North and South American fossil mammals.
  • Midwestern University, Glendale
  • Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • btowns@midwestern.edu
Liam D. Murphy, Past President (2009–2010)
  • Liam D. Murphy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. His main interests are religion, Northern Ireland, and public anthropology.
  • California State University, Sacramento
  • Department of Anthropology
  • lmurphy@csus.edu
Kathie Zaretsky, Treasurer (2009–2012)
  • Kathie Zaretsky recently retired from teaching; she currently has a non-teaching appointment in the department where she taught for many years. She is a cultural anthropologist with interests in the anthropology of consciousness, indigenous peoples movements, gender and sexuality, India, and Guatemala.
  • San José State University
  • Department of Anthropology
  • kzaretsky@sbcglobal.net
Mary Gresham, Secretary (2007–2010)
  • Mary Gresham is an RN and anthropologist. She works in Intensive Care and in the Emergency Room, and she taught in the Anthropology program at Cañada College 2001–2007. She is particularly interested in biological anthropology and in shamanism.
  • mfgresham1@yahoo.com
Barbra E. Erickson, Newsletter Editor (2008–2011)
  • Barbra Erickson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Her research and teaching interests include medical anthropology, gerontology, the anthropology of organizations, and economic anthropology.
  • California State University, Fullerton
  • Department of Anthropology
  • beerickson@fullerton.edu
Sydney Story, Executive Member-at-Large (2008–2011)
  • Sydney Story, Ph.D. UCLA 1960, taught in the Anthropology Department of California State University, Fresno from 1963 until 1999, when she became Professor Emerita. She has done field work in Bali. Her interests include anthropology of religion, shamanism, trance, and anthropological theory.
  • California State University, Fresno
  • Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology
  • sydney@lightspeed.net
Jonathan Karpf, Executive Member-at-Large (2008–2011)
  • Jonathan Karpf has been a Lecturer at San José State University since 1987. He is a biological anthropologist whose main interests are human genetics and evolution, alcoholism, the behavior, systematics, and ecology of primates, Mesoamerican prehistory, and social justice in Guatemala. He is also an activist in the California Faculty Association, the union representing the 24,000 faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches in the 23 campus California State University system.
  • San José State University
  • Department of Anthropology
  • jonathan.karpf@sjsu.edu
Kimberly Porter Martin, Executive Member-at-Large (2007–2010)
  • Kimberly Porter Martin, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at University of La Verne in Southern California. Her work centers around psychological anthropology and cognition, gender, ethnicity, Europe and Mexico.
  • University of La Verne
  • Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • martink@ulv.edu
Eric Paison, Executive Member-at-Large (2008–2011)
  • Eric Paison received an MA in Anthropology in 2007 at Cal State Fullerton. He is most interested in socio-cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on globalization, transnationalism, and culture change—with field work centering on the Orange County community of Little Saigon, as well as Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Saigon). He is currently a part-time lecturer at both Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach City College.
  • California State University, Fullerton and Long Beach City College
  • Department of Anthropology
  • flash9311-anthro@yahoo.com
Liz Snyder, Executive Member-at-Large (2008–2011)
  • Liz Snyder is a practicing nutritional anthropologist and the founder and Program Director of Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale. Full Circle Farm is a sustainable, educational farm built on 11 acres of Santa Clara Unified School District land, serving all 14,000 students of the district with fresh local food and hands-on education in nutrition and environmental science.
  • Full Circle Farm, Sunnyvale, California
  • liz@fullcirclesunnyvale.org
Hilarie Kelly, Executive Member-at-Large (2008–2011)
  • Hilarie Kelly, Ph.D. UCLA 1992, has done ethnographic and applied research in Africa and North America. Areas of specialization include gender, economic development, transnationalism and globalization (e.g., immigration and refugee issues), Islam, adolescent socialization, health and nutrition, aging, visual media and dance/performance. In addition to teaching at California State University, Long Beach, she supports the Center for Peace and Social Justice on that campus and is a Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA.
  • California State University, Long Beach
  • Department of Anthropology
  • hkelly@csulb.edu
Rayed Khedher, Student Member (2007–2010)
  • Rayed Khedher is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in anthropology at UCLA. His research interests include transnational migration, human rights, North African diaspora, media, and Islam.
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Graduate student, Department of Anthropology
  • rayed@ucla.edu
Sarah Linn Gallardo, Student Member (2008–2011)
  • Sarah Linn Gallardo has made her passion for food systems and farming the focus of her graduate work in the Applied Anthropology program at San José State University. She works as a community educator in organic agriculture, while studying the organizational behaviors of nonprofits. She seeks to combine education and promotion of sustainable food systems with her knowledge of successful business practices to increase access to fresh foods necessary for healthy people and healthy communities.
  • San José State University
  • Graduate student, Department of Anthropology
  • linn.sarah@gmail.com
Maritza Maksimow, Student Member (2009–2012)