Alumni and Placements

We in the Department of Anthropology are justifiably proud of the academic and career achievements of our alumni.

2022

  • Candice Ralston

    Thesis: Isotopic Reflections on the Sexual Division of Labor and Postmarital Residence in Precontact Central California: A Multi-Isotopic (δ 13C, δ 15N, δ 34S, δ 18O, and 87Sr/86Sr) Investigation at the Windmiller (CA-SAC107) and Blossom (CA-SJO-68) Mounds

  • Anne O'Connor

    Thesis: Making up Mosquitoes: Gene Drives, Malaria, and Reproductive Transformation in the Field
    Current Position: Senior Researcher, Transformation of the Human, Berkeley

  • Justin Malachowski

    Thesis: Images of the Sha􀤣b: Exploring the Fears and Hopes of Popular Sovereignty in Post-Revolution
    Tunisia through the Public Arts

  • Adam Kersch

    Thesis: Inoculating Whiteness: Race, Resistance, and Infectious Diseases on Sheet'ká Kwáan
    Current Position:     Cultural & History Director, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Alaska

  • Justin Haruyama

    Thesis: Mining for Coal and Souls: Modes of Relationality in Emerging Chinese-Zambian Worlds
    Current Position:     Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan

  • Tory Brykalski

    Thesis: The Source of the Two Rivers: Human Devastation and Refugee Social Life in the Bekaa Valley (2015 - 2021)
    Current Position:     Tutor, Franciscan Third Order

  • Mayowa Adegboyega

    Thesis: The Evolution of the Human Pelvis: 3D Geometric Morphometric and Virtual Solutions to and Incomplete Fossil Record
    Current Position:     Postdoctoral Associate Researcher, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • Muneeza Rizvi

    Thesis: Convoys and Counterterrorism: Islamic Care in Times of (In)Security
    Current Position:     UC President Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

  • Kristi Onzik

    Thesis: Phyto-Innervations: An Ethnography at the Margins of Plant Science

2021

  • Kevin Smith

    Thesis: A Technological Approach to Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Aquatic Adaptation in the Far West of North America

  • Kyohei Itakura

    Thesis: Rethinking Gay Liberation: Sexual Minority Movements in Contemporary Japan
    Current Position: Lecturer, Intercultural Communication Department, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Japan

  • Melissa Salm

    Thesis: Diseases at the Interface: An Ecological Inquiry into One Health With Fieldwork in Peru
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

  • Susan Lagle

    Thesis: Reindeer Hunters of the Middle Paleolithic: Investing Neandertal Subsistence Strategies in Quina Mousterian Contexts of Southwestern France
    Current Position: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

  • Aida Rivera Sotelo

    Thesis: Coral Nurseries: Growing Coral in an Not Only Biological Sea

  • Ishani Saraf

    Thesis: Scrapscape: Waste, Trade, and Urban Ecologies in Contemporary Delhi

2020

  • Curtis Atkisson

    Thesis: Using Multiplex Networks in the Study of Human Behavioral Evolution
    Current Position:     Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  • Whitney Larratt-Smith

    Thesis: Aqueous Worldings: Life, Death, and Waters Downstream from the Alberta Oil Sands
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Canada

  • Nicolas Lashinsky

    Thesis: Exploring and Extending Multivariate Brownian Diffusion Models of Phenotypic Evolution for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University

  • Mei-Chun Lee

    Thesis: The "Nobody" Movement: Digital Activism and the Uprising of Civic Hackers in Taiwan
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

  • Caroline MuKusick

    Thesis: In the Kitchen: Kurdish Women Journalists and the Gendered Subject
    Current Position: Assistant Editor, Stanford University Press

  • Jason Miszaniec

    Thesis: An Economic Classification of Pre-industrial Fisheries and Subsistence Economies in Norton Sound, Alaska; A Faunal Analysis of Intensification
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Susan Talcott

    Thesis: The Significance of Salmon in Pre-contact Hunter-Gatherer Diet: An Isotopic Perspective on Aquatic Resource Exploitation in Northern California
    Current Position: Archaeologist, Solano Archaeological Services, Suisan City, CA

  • Matthew Nesvet

    Thesis: ?Zama-Zama?: Afterlives of Extraction in South Africa and Lesotho
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the Humanities, Miami Dade College

2019

  • Maya Costa-Pinto

    Thesis: "The City in Flux: Navigating Urbanism(s) through Waterways in Goa, India." (S. Srinivas, advisor)

  • Christian Doll

    Thesis: "The Post-State State: Sovereignity, Futurity and Urban Life in Independent South Sudan." (J.H. Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, North Carolina State University (2019-2021)

  • Naomi Martisius

    Thesis: "The Middle Paleolithic Lissoirs (Smoothers) from Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-I'Aze I: Investigating Neandertal Bone Tool Material Selection, Manufacture, and Use." (T. Steele, advisor)
    Current Position: Fulbright Scholar (Fall 2019)

  • Laura Meek

    Thesis: "Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Embodied Experiments and World-Making Tastes in Tanzania." (J.H. Smith and C. Giordano, advisors)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan

  • Nicole Naar

    Thesis: "Pescando la Pinata': Testing Cooperation Theory and Method in a Fishing Commons." (M. Borgerhoff Mulder, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  • Jane Saffitz

    Thesis: “Lightness and Visibility: Violence, the Unseen and Albinism Rights in Tanzania.”  (J.H. Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Denison University

2018

  • Gregory Burns

    Thesis: "Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach." (J.W. Eerkens, advisor)

  • Meghan Donnelly

    Thesis: "Practices of Perserverance: Violence, Impossible Information, and Critical Journalism in Mexico." (J.A. Dumit and M. de la Cadena, advisors)

  • Rachel Feldman

    Thesis: "The Third Temple Movement: An Ethnography of Messianic Activism." (S. Joseph, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies/Judaic Studies, Franklin and Marshall College

  • Adam Liebman

    Thesis: “Turning Trash into Treasure: Shadow Economies and Toxic Ecologies in Kunming, China.”  (L. Zhang, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

  • Peter Stamos

    Thesis: "On the Ontogeny of the Hominoid Distal Femoral Metaphysical Surface: Towards Reconstructing the Locomotor Behavior of the Dikika Child." (T.D. Weaver, advisor)

  • Adrian Yen

    Thesis: "The Life After Life: Pills, Peace and Cen in Postwar Northern Uganda." (A. Klima, advisor)

2017

  • Carlos Andrés Barragán

    Thesis: "Lineages within Genomes: Situating Human Genetics Research and Contentious Bio-Identities in Northern South America." (J.A. Dumit, advisor)
    Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

  • Dena Clink

    Thesis: "The Evolutionary and Ecological Implications of Variation in Bornean Gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) Female Calls." (M. Crofoot, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University (2019)

  • Doris Duangboudda

    Thesis: "Consuming Mobilities: Staging China in the World through Middle Class Car Culture." (L. Zhang, advisor)
    Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, Sierra College

  • Alexandra Greenwald

    Thesis: “Isotopic Reconstruction of Weaning Age and Childhood Diet Among Ancient California Foragers: Life History Strategies and Implications for Demographics, Resource Intensification, and Social Organization.”  (J.W. Eerkens, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah

  • Julie Linden

    Thesis: "Factors Affecting Hair Cortisol, Rank, and Aggression in a Large Newly Formed Social Group of Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)." (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Westchester Community College, New York

  • Jorge Núñez

    Thesis: "Markets of Excitement: Debt, Speculation, and Catalonia." (A. Klima, advisor)
    Current Position: Faculty and co-founder, Centro de Etnografía Interdisciplinaria de Université Cuenca and FLACSO, Ecuador

  • Xinjun Zhang

    Thesis: "Zoonotic Malaria in Southeast Asian Macaques." (D.G. Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

2016

  • David Katz

    Thesis: “The Influence of Climate and Diet on Human Skull Shape, Form, and Size.” (T.D. Weaver, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Canada

  • Amy Porter

    Thesis: “Variability in the Social Lives of Red Titi Monkeys (Callicebus discolor) and Equatorial Saki Monkeys (Pithecia aequatorialis), Two Pair-living Primates in Ecuador.” (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Director of Conservation Communications. Wolf Haven, Washington

  • Camilo Santz

    Thesis: "Oncopolitics of Deferral and Temporal Urgency: Health Insurances, Biomedical Practices, and Cancer in Colombia" (M. de la Cadena, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Indianapolis

  • Carly Whelan

    Thesis: "Hunter-Gatherer Storage and Settlement: A View From the Central Sierra Nevada" (A. Eerkens, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico

2015

  • Jacob Culbertson

    Thesis: "Recombinant Indigeneities: Maori Environmental Design and the Architecture of Biculturalism." (A. Klima, advisor)
    Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania

  • Vanessa deKoninck

    Thesis: "Disruption, Transformation, and Division: Negotiation Joint-Management in Northern Australia." (S. Sawyer, advisor)
    Current Position: Executive Director, Centre for Race and Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Stefanie Graeter

    Thesis: "Mineral Incorporations: Lead Science, Ethics, and Politics in Central Peru" (M. de la Cadena and J.A. Dumit, advisors)
    Current Position: Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine (2019-20); Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Arizona (2020)

  • Bascom Guffin

    Thesis: "Cyberabad Moves: Mobilizing Futures in a South Indian City." (S. Srinivas, advisor)
    Current Position: Term Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

  • Jieun Lee

    Thesis: "The Promise of Biology, Biology of Promises: An Ethnography of the Korean Stem Cell Enterprise." (J.A. Dumit, advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Rima Praspaliaskiene

    Thesis: "Enveloped Lives: Caring, Giving and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care." (J.A. Dumit, advisor)
    Current Position: Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, University of California, Berkeley

  • Andrew Tremayne

    Thesis: "The Origin and Development of Maritime Foraging Systems in Northern Alaska." (C.M. Darwent, advisor)
    Current Position: Regional Archaeologist, National Park Service, Anchorage, Alaska

2014

  • Katie Feilen
    Thesis: "Feeding Ecology and Sleeping Site Selection of Proboscis Monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia" (A.J. Marshall, advisor)
    Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University (2017 to present)
  • Md. Kamrul Hasan
    Thesis: "Origin and Dispersal of Rhesus Macaques with a Special Emphasis on Bangladesh."(D.G Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Professor, Department of Zoology, Jahangikrnagar University, Bangledesh
  • Vandana Nagaraj
    Thesis: (A. Klima, advisor)
    Current Position: ReD Associates, New York, New York
  • Cody Ross
    Thesis: "Bayesian Methods in Applied Anthropology and Human Behavior Ecology." (B. Winterhalder. advisor)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
  • Ryan Schacht
    Thesis: "Multilevel Determinants of Reproductive Decision Making Among the Makushi of Guyana." (M. Borgerhoff Mulder, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville

2013

  • Kristina Lyons

    Thesis: "Soil Practitioners and 'vital spaces': Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon." (M. de la Cadena, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

  • Rossio Motta Ochoa

    Thesis: "Psychiatric Technologies Under Neo-Liberal Restructuring in a Peruvian Psychiatric Hospital." (M. de la Cadena, advisor)
    Current Position: University of California Cooperative Extension

  • Charles Pearson

    Thesis: "Tea Party Technologies and Imaginaries: The Emergence of a Conservative Network Politics." (A. Klima, advisor)
    Current Position: User Experience Research Manager, Clover Health

2012

  • Madeline Otis Campbell

    Thesis: "Family, Nation, and Colonial Belonging in the Iraqi Diaspora." (S. Joseph, advisor)
    Current Position: Interim Associate Dean, Global and Distance Education, Worcester State University, Providence, Rhode Island

  • Vivian Choi

    Thesis: "After Disasters: The Persistence of Insecurity in Sri Lanka." (S. Srinivas, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

  • Clint Cole

    Thesis: "Prehistoric Archaeology and the Fremont Frontier at North Meadow Valley Wash, Eastern Nevada." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Principal investigator, Kautz Environmental Consulting, Reno, NV

  • Nicholas D’Avella

    Thesis: "From Banks to Bricks: Architecture, Investment and Neighborhood Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina." (D.L. Donham, advisor)
    Current Position: Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University

  • Kathryn Demps

    Thesis: "Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a Honey-Collecting Tribe and the Ecology of Cultural Knowledge Transmissions. (B. Winterhalder, advisor)
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boise State University, Idaho

  • Jonathan Echeverri

    Thesis: "Errant Journals: Stories of Movement of African Foreigners Suspended in Dakar, Senegal." (S. Sawyer, advisor)
    Current Position: Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

  • Raven Garvey

    Thesis: “Human Behavioral Responses to Middle Holocene Climate Changes in Northern Argentine Patagonia.” (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Assistant Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Cassandra Gilmore

    Thesis: "A Comparative Context for the Interpretation of Antemortem Tooth Loss in the Fossil Record: Implications for the Evolution of Human Behavior and Longevity.” (T.D. Weaver, advisor)
    Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, California

  • Trine Johansen

    Thesis: "A Zooarchaeological and Ethnographic Investigation of Subsistence Change Through Time at Iita, Northwest Greenland" (C.M. Darwent, advisor)
    Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, California

  • Gina Jorgenson (Munson)

    Thesis: "Human Ecology and Social Organization in the Prehistoric California Delta: An Examination of 87Sr/86Sr Isotope Ratios in the Human Burial Population at CA-CCO-548." (J.W. Eerkens, advisor)
    Current Position: Cultural Resource Specialist, Archaeologist, and Tribal Liaison, Bureau of Land Management, Arcata, California

  • Christopher Kortright

    Thesis: "C4 rice and Hoping the Sun Can End Hunger: Tales of Plants, Evolution, Transgenics, and Crisis.” (J.A. Dumit, advisor)
    Current Position: Sessional Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

  • Timothy Murphy

    Thesis: “Bohemia and Belonging in a Middle of Nowhere Somewhere” (D.L. Donham, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Worcester State University, Providence, Rhode Island

  • Robert Nash

    Thesis: "The Role of Maize in Low-Level Food Production among Northern Peripheral Fremont Groups in the Northeastern Uinta Mountains of Utah.” (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Project Manager, Bighorn Archaeological Consultants, Santa Clara, Utah

  • Kristin Rauch

    Thesis: "Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Assortative Mating." (R. McElreath, advisor).
    Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento

  • Nathan Stevens

    Thesis: "Technological Plasticity and Cultural Evolution along the Central Coast of California.” (J.W. Eerkens, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento

2011

  • Jennifer Aengst

    Thesis: "Reproductive Politics at the Border: Pronatalism, Intermarriage and Moral Movements in Ladakh, India." (S. Srinivas, advisor)
    Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Oregon

  • Won Choi —Deceased in 2009 (degree awarded posthumously)

    Thesis: "Emergence of Agricultural Society: A Chronological Review of the Early and Middle Bronze Age on the Korean Peninsula." (R. L. Bettinger, advisor)

  • Stephanie Etting

    Thesis: "Primate Anti-Predator Behavior toward Snakes: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications." (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Lecturer, Departments of Anthropology, Sacramento City College, Sacramento State University, and UC Davis.

  • Lena Meari

    Thesis: “Sumud: A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation.” (S. Joseph, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University, Palestine

  • Ayesha Nibbe

    Thesis: "Effects of a Narrative: Humanitarian Aid and Action in the Northern Ugandan Conflict." (C.A. Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Hawai'i Pacific University

  • Gowoon Noh

    Thesis: "Life on the Border: Korean-Chinese Negotiating National Belonging and Transnational Capitals in the Global Economy." (L. Zhang, advisor)
    Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento

  • Matthew Preston

    Thesis: "Anthropogenic Disturbance of Forests, its Effects on Primates, and Conservation in West Usambara, Tanzania." (A.H. Harcourt, advisor)
    Current Position: Presidential Management Fellow/ National Science Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC

  • Meradeth Snow

    Thesis: "Ancient DNA in North America and the Effects of Migration on Prehistoric Populations." (D.G. Smith, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula

  • Michelle Stewart

    Thesis: "Subjects of Prevention: Risk, Threat and Anticipation in Canadian Policing.” (J.A. Dumit, advisor)
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

2009

  • Loukas Barton

    Thesis: "Early Food Production in China's Western Loess Plateau." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Dudek, San Juan Capistrano, California

  • John Bunce

    Thesis: "Ecology and Genetics of Color Vision in Callicebus brunneus, a Neotropical Monkey.” (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Senior Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  • Micah Hale

    Thesis: "Santa Barbara and San Diego: Contrasting Adaptive Strategies on the Southern California Coast." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Senior Cultural Project Manager, Dudek, Encinitas, California

  • Fabiana Li

    Thesis: "How Pollution Comes to Matter: The Science and Politics of Twenty-First Century Mining in Peru." (S. Sawyer, advisor)
    Current Position:     Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada

  • Carl McCabe

    Thesis: "Human Behavioral Ecology and the Individual in Society." (B. Winterhalder, advisor)
    Current Position: Head of Special Initiatives, National Cancer Institute, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

  • Kari Britt Schroeder

    Thesis: "Genetic Perspectives on Population Prehistory in the Americas." (D.G. Smith, advisor)

  • Shannon Tushingham

    Thesis: "The Development of Intensive Foraging Systems in Northwestern California." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology/ Assistant Director, Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman

2008

  • Brianne Beisner

    Thesis: "The Effects of Ground Substrate on the Behavior and Well-being of Outdoor Captive Groups of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)." (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Colony Director, Field Station, Emory National Primate Research Center, Georgia

  • Rebecca Chancellor

    Thesis: “Feeding competition and social relationships in two female-resident primate species: Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and gray-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena).” (L.A. Isbell, advisor)
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and Anthropology & Sociology, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

  • Susan Glover

    Thesis: “Behavioral Ecology of Silver Prospectors in late 19th century Gothic, Colorado: Migration, Group Formation and Central Place Foraging.” (B. Winterhalder, advisor)
    Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Denison University, Granville, Ohio

  • Kregg Hetherington

    Thesis: “Guerilla Auditors: Transparency, Democracy and Rural Politics in Paraguay.” (M. de la Cadena, advisor)
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

  • Robert Stallman

    Thesis: “The Pace and Processes of Early Divergence and Stasis: Morphological Evolution in Isolated Populations of the Sulawesi Boot Macaque, Macaca ochreata (Cercopithecidae)

  • Adrian Whitaker

    Thesis: “The Role of Human Predation in the Structuring of Prehistoric Prey Populations in Northwestern California.” (R.L. Bettinger and C.M. Darwent, advisors)
    Current Position: Principal Investigator, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California

2007

  • Sherine Hafez

    Thesis: “Women's Islamic Movements in Question: Reconsidering Desire, Religion and Secularism” (S. Joseph, advisor)
    Current Position: Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside