Executive Board
Terri Castaneda, Chair (2010–2013)
- Terri Castaneda is a Professor and Director of the Anthropology Museum at California State University, Sacramento. Her areas of interest are museum anthropology, heritage tourism, and mid-20th century California Indian activism and cultural renewal.
- California State University, Sacramento
- Department of Anthropology
- tac [at] csus [dot] edu
Jonathan Karpf, President (2012–2013)
- 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
- jkarpf [at] calfac [dot] org
Eric Canin, Vice President (2012–2013)
- Eric Canin, Ph.D. Columbia University 1993, is a Lecturer at California State University, Fullerton. His areas of interest are anthropology of religion, globalization, and social movements. He has conducted fieldwork in Nicaragua and Mexico.
- California State University, Fullerton
- Department of Anthropology
- ecanin [at] fullerton [dot] edu
Jesse Dizard, Past President (2012–2013)
- Jesse Dizard is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico. His areas of interest include North African migrants in Europe, customary and traditional fish and wildlife management, social and environmental impacts of economic development, and cross-cultural comparisons children’s perceptions of war, peace and enemy.
- California State University, Chico
- Department of Anthropology
- jdizard [at] csuchico [dot] edu
Kimberly Porter Martin, Secretary (2010–2013)
- 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
- Department of Sociology/Anthropology
- kmartin [at] laverne [dot] edu
Kathie Zaretsky, Treasurer (2012–2015)
- Kathie Zaretsky recently retired after teaching for many years in the Department of Anthropology at San José State University. 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 [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Barbra E. Erickson, Newsletter Editor (2011–2014)
- 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 [at] fullerton [dot] edu
Julie Goodman-David, Member-at-Large (2011–2014)
- Julie Goodman-David is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California Baptist University and adjunct professor at Orange Coast College in Orange County, California. Her areas of interest include urban anthropology with a focus in immigration studies, labor movements, and transnationalism.
- California Baptist University
- School of Behavioral Sciences
- jul [dot] m [dot] david [at] gmail [dot] com
Erin Stiles, Member-at-Large (2012–2015)
- 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 [at] unr [dot] edu
Andre Yefremian, Member-at-Large (2012–2015)
- Andre Yefremian is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Glendale Community College located in southern California. His areas of interest and research include national and ethnic identity construction, medical anthropology, sustainability and globalization. Professor Yefremian's primary geographic focus is on the European Union, but more narrowly, Germany.
- Glendale Community College
- Department of Anthropology
- ayefremi [at] glendale [dot] edu
Rayed Khedher, Student Member (2010–2013)
- 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 [at] ucla [dot] edu
Eric Paison, Student Member (2011–2014)
- Eric Paison received an MA in Anthropology in 2007 at California State Fullerton. He is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University, as well as a part-time lecturer at Long Beach City College. He is interested in socio-cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on globalization, transnationalism, identity, and culture change. He has conducted field work centering on the Orange County, CA community of Little Saigon, as well as Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. Current and future field sites include the community of Cambodia Town in Long Beach, CA, as well as the Khmer temple complexes in Cambodia.
- Claremont Graduate University
- Graduate Student, Department of Cultural Studies
- epaison1959 [at] gmail [dot] com
Connor Buitenhuys, Student Member (2012–2015)
- Connor Buitenhuys is a graduate student at California State University, Chico. His research interests include California prehistoric and historic archaeology, culture contact, colonialism, foodways and faunal studies.
- California State University, Chico
- Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
- buitenhuysc [at] yahoo [dot] com
