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Faculty & Staff |
FacultyAngelo R. Orona,
Ph.D., Program Director Angelo Orona received his B.A. in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA. His main area of interest is the ethnology of South American cultures. His field research focuses on Creole island fisherman of Venezuela. Alana K. Cordy-Collins, Ph.D. Alana Cordy-Collins, Ph.D. is a graduate of UCLA (1976). She is an Archaeologist whose primary specialization is Peruvian prehistory. She is the field osteologist (human skeletal analyst) for the Dos Cabezas Project, Jequetepeque Valley, and for the Choquepukio Project, Cuzco Valley. Her secondary specialization is shamanism. She is Director of the David W. May Indian Artifacts Gallery and Curator of the Collection. Jerome Lynn Hall,
Ph.D. Jerome Lynn Hall is a nautical archaeologist who received his doctorate in anthropology (specialty in nautical archaeology) at Texas A & M University. Before coming to USD, he was the underwater archaeologist for Puerto Rico and President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. His current research projects include the excavation of a 17th-century northern European merchant shipwreck off the north coast of the Dominican Republic, as well as the documentation and publication of a 1st-century boat recovered from the Sea of Galilee. Jerome's leisure activities include hiking, camping, surfing, sailing, reading, attending the opera, and spending time with his dogs--Jackson and Sweetie--at Dog Beach. Denise Couch, M.A. Professor Couch attended San Diego State University (B.A. Anthropology/Biology 1992; M.A. Anthropology 1996). She teaches courses in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Gender. Her academic interests include South African culture, tourism and development, gender and science, and ethics. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association and the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Her personal interests include jogging, surfing, concerts, and travel. Tori D. Heflin, M.A. Tori Heflin received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of San Diego, and her M.A. in Anthropology from San Diego State University. She is a Curator of Physical Anthropology at the San Diego Museum of Man, and is a member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the Paleopathology Association. Over the years, Professor Heflin has worked with the David W. May Indian Artifacts Collection in the Anthropology Museum at USD. Amadeo Rea, Ph.D. Dr. Rea is a taxonomic ornithologist and ethnobiologist whose work is focused on the greater Southwest. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1977, and worked as Curator of Birds and Mammals for the next 13 years at the San Diego Natural History Museum. His papers deal with the taxonomy and distribution of birds, avian paleontology, and zooarchaeology. His 1983 work, "Once a River: Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila," documents avifaunal changes in River Pima country. His work in ethnobiology includes two published volumes on the O'odham, a Southwest Uto-Aztecan group: "At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima," (1997) and "Folk Mammalogy of the Northern Pimans," (1998). All three were published by the University of Arizona Press. The third in this series, "Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of Northern Pimans," is about to go off to the press. Dr. Rea is a past president of the Society of Ethnobiology. Rose A. Tyson,
M.A. Professor Tyson received her M.A. from San Diego State University. She is the Curator of Physical Anthropology at the San Diego Museum of Man, and has spent ten years teaching part-time at USD. She is interested in human evolution and how diseases affect the human skeleton. Cheryl
Hinton, M.A. Professor Cheryl Hinton received her Masters Degree in Anthropology from San Diego State University. She is a member of AAA, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Association of Museums, including the W.M.A. and the C.A.M., and Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies. She has been Director of the Tribal Museum of the Barona Band of Mission Indians since it opened in 1999. She was also the first Director/Curator of the Agua Caliente Tribal Museum in Palm Springs, as well as the Museum Anthropologist at the Palm Springs Desert Museum. She also worked as the Southwest Curator at the San Diego Museum of Man. Professor Hinton specializes in: the study of: Southern California Indians, from archaeology to contemporary culture; American Indian stereotypes; education issues for American Indians; and museology. Her current research includes Barona Indian Veterans, Catholic ceremonies on the Reservation, California’s Indian Cowboys, and the preservation of ´Iipay Aa, the language of the Barona People. Patrick Geyer, M.A. Mr. Geyer is currently pursuing various ongoing field and laboratory projects in California, Peru, Turkey and Israel. As part of this work he is actively engaged in mentoring USD student interns in the techniques of archaeobotanical investigation. A specialization in pollen analysis will enable these future researchers to extract fossil pollen from archaeological sites for the purposes of environmental or behavioral reconstruction. Current journal publications include articles in the Journal of Field Archaeology (JFA, Spring 2001) and the Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ, Spring 2002). To view current research, go to www.sandiego.edu/~pgeyer/gamla.html. Ms. Hernández received her degree in Anthropology and History from the National School of Mexico City, Mexico. She has been the State Park Projects Leader since 1999. Therese Adams Muranaka is an Associate State Archaeologist for California State Parks. She manages cultural resources for the San Diego Coast District, which includes parks at Border Field, Torrey Pines, and Old Town San Diego. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Tucson, writing a dissertation on the "Spirit Jumpers," a Russian religious group living in the mountains of Baja California. Her research interests are ethnicity in archaeology, and prehistoric warfare. Joseph Nalven,
Ph.D. Dr. Nalven received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He also received his J.D. from the University of San Diego. Dr. Nalven was the Associate Director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias at San Diego State University. Dr. Nalven has developed a special topics course for the Anthropology Department -- Anthropology 194 Peace and Justice. He is also a digital artist and his art work can be viewed at www.digitalartist1.com. Museum StaffJoyce Antorietto, B.A. Ms. Antorietto received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. She is the Collections Manager for the David W. May Indian Artifacts Collection in the Anthropology Museum, Serra 214B. She also works part-time at the San Diego Museum of Man, where she has been involved with cataloging the ethnographic collections, and assisting the collections manager in other museum tasks. Ms. Antorietto is also office manager for the Scientific Library at the Museum of Man. |
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