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Anthropology

Current Faculty

 

Tenure Track Faculty 

Faculty Photo-Dvera Saxton Ph.D. Anthropology, (Race, Gender, & Social Justice) American University

Interests: Medical and environmental Anthropology, food and agriculture, environmental and social justice, environmental health, farmworkers and activists research

Phone: 559-278-0887 | Office: Peters Building 385

Email: dsaxton@csufresno.edu

Jenny Banh Profile Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Interests: Labor, Transnational corporations, Student Success, Diversity in Higher Education, Asian/Asian Americans

Phone: 559-278-2380 | Office: Peters Building 256

Email: jenbanh@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Photo - Henry Delcore Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison 

Interests: Design Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, technology and work, technology and education

Phone: 559-278-2784 | Office: Peters Building 257

Email: hdelcore@csufresno.edu

Faculty Photo Ph.D. Interdisiplinary Humanites, University of California, Merced

Interests: race, religion, and empire in relation to anticolonial movements in Punjab and its diaspora.

Phone: 559-278-2878 | Office: Peters Building 253

Email: amritdeol@csufresno.edu

Faculty Photo Dodd Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Utah

Interests: Agrarian ecology and site structure, evolutionary ecology, ethnoarchaeology, lithic analysis, archaeology and ethnography of Southwestern North America

Phone: 559-278-4899 | Office: Peters Building 252

Email: wdodd@csufresno.edu

Chelsey Juarez Profile Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Interests: Forensic anthropology, immigration, isotopes, bioarchaeology, paleopathology

Phone: 559-278-5453 | Office: Peters Building 258

Email: chelseyjuarez@mail.fresnostate.edu

Jim Mullooly Profile Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University

Interests: Anthropology and Education, Qualitative Methodology, and Work Force Development

Phone: 559-278-7574 | Office: Science Building 144

Email: jmullooly@csufresno.edu

John Pryor Profile Ph.D. Anthropology, State University at Binghamtom

Interests: California archaeology, England archaeology, Human evolution and forensic archaeology

Phone: 559-278-5150 | Office: Peters Building 254 (Office); MCL 212(Lab)

Email: johnp@csufresno.edu

Xiong Profile Photo Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Interests: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Asian American Studies

Phone: 559-278-5167 Office: Peters Building 255

Email: yangxiong@csufresno.edu

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Lecturer Email: lianderson@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: tadballew@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: dchandara@csufresno.edu

Lecturer Email: ggong@csufresno.edu

Interests: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Diversity in Higher Education, Nonprofit Organizational Leadership & Management

Lecturer Email: lhakimi@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: izzy.lo@mail.fresnostate.edu

 

Lecturer Email: marcusangelo02@mail.fresnostate.edu

Marcus Angelo Moreno

•US Integrated Marketing Brand Specialist

•Digital Anthropologist researching online culture

•Pop-culture enthusiast and cultural critic

Marcus is an Integrated Marketing Brand Specialist that emphasizes lifestyle-tech brand solutions, sexual health & awareness advocacy, and social purpose campaigns. With over a decade of experience in public relations and social marketing, Marcus crafts brand strategies that elevates clients’ media relationships, brand narratives, launch/awareness programs, and talent/content creator relationships.

Previously, Marcus’ career portfolio includes Fox Entertainment, Huawei, AT&T, Intel, ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, Epic Games and Fortnite, Old Spice, and the Sony Corporate Communications Suite: Sony Pictures, Sony Music, Sony Digital Imaging, Sony Home Entertainment & Sound, and Sony’s Artificial Intelligence divisions. Outside of Edelman, Marcus is a digital anthropologist and lectures at Fresno State in California's Central Valley.   

Lecturer Email: nickromano@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: ckroper@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: nsaenz@mail.fresnostate.edu

Lecturer Email: shurik@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: marthatsutsuibillins@mail.fresnostate.edu

Ph.D. Linguistics, SOAS, University of London

Interests: Linguistic Anthropology, language documentation and description, endangered language digital archiving, sociolinguistics, Ryukyu languages, politeness, honorifics, community-based research

Website: http://fieldnotespod.com/

Lecturer Email: svang@csufresno.edu

Interests: Asian American Studies

Lecturer Email:  mvelezyoung@mail.fresnostate.edu

Ph.D. Anthropology of Education, Stanford University 

Interests: Cultural anthropology, cultural construction of the justice and schooling systems, historically marginalized youth and young adults in the U.S., community-based research.

 Lecturer Email: pverin@csufresno.edu

 

Lecturer Email: kwhelms@csufresno.edu

 

Email: liwilson@csufresno.edu

Anthropology Office: (559) 278-3002/ *Emails welcome

*Spring 2024 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30am-4:30pm, Closed 12:00pm-1:00pm for Lunch

*Friday Office Hours: Closed to Walk-Ins/Staff Telecommute/Phone Calls and Emails Only                                                 

Honorary Professors

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology- Franklin Ng, Ph.D. 

 

Current Faculty Publications

"Fresno State Magazine - A Pryor Commitment"

"Farmworkers Are Both
#AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?"


"American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption"

"The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice"

"Shelden, Randall, and Morghan Vélez Young. 2021. Our punitive society: Race, class, gender, and punishment in America. Waveland Press"

 

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