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Adjunct Professors & Lecturers

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  • Jon Bialecki

    Jon Bialecki

    Lecturer
    Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC San Diego 
    jbialecki@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Anthropology of North America, Anthropological Study of Christianity, Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity, Anthropology of Mormonism, Science and Religion. Sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of religion, anthropological theories of subject and self, anthropology of temporality, political anthropology, politics and religion, political theology, language ideology, linguistic anthropology, anthropological theory, anthropology and ontology, continental psychoanalytic theory.

     
  • Jana Fortier

    Jana Fortier

    Lecturer
    Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    jfortier@ucsd.edu

    Research interests: Archaeology of Asia, pre-agricultural foraging societies, cultural resilience, identity and ethnicity, traditional and folk arts, ethnobotany, museum studies, theories of nature/culture, nomadism, biocultural diversity, endangered societies, South Asia, Western North America.
  • Alex Stewart

    Alex Stewart

    Lecturer
    Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC San Diego 
    a1stewar@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Islamic revival, ethnic identity in modern China, multiculturalism, cultural anthropology, East Asian societies, Chinese American culture, anthropology of religion, transnational identities.
  • Tim K. Mackey

    Tim K. Mackey

    Adjunct Professor

    Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego

    tkmackey@ucsd.edu

    Dr. Mackey is a global health policy and data scientist with an interdisciplinary background. Dr. Mackey earned his PhD in Global Public Health from the UCSD-SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Global Health and also holds a MAS in Health Policy and Law. Dr. Mackey's research interests include global health governance, health diplomacy, infodemiology, machine learning, blockchain, and health policy and innovation.  He is also the Director of the Global Health Policy and Data Institute (www.ghpolicy.org), the Editor-in-Chief of JMIR Infodemiology, and a faculty affiliate at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
  • Linnea Wilder

    Linnea Wilder

    Linnea L. Wilder

    Lecturer

    Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego

    llwilder@ucsd.edu

    Research interests: Biological anthropology, human evolution, human anatomy, brain evolution and development, non-human primate behavior, cognition, and evolution
  • Julia K. Sloane

    Julia K. Sloane

    Julia K. Sloane

    Lecturer

    Ph.D. in Anthropology, U.C. San Diego 

    jsloane@ucsd.edu


    Julia K. Sloane is a psychological and medical anthropologist with a particular interest in critical and transformative experiences, and the bio-cultural processes of development and aging. She received her PhD in 2022 from UC San Diego, where her doctoral research explored the lived-experience of Parkinson’s disease and the social and psychological dynamics of delaying disease progression. 

    Research interests include: Neurodivergence and mental health, processes of the self, relationality, meaning-making, healthcare systems and cultures, human-technology interactions, and human-centered design and education.
  • Andres Garzon-Oechsle

    Andres Garzon-Oechsle

    Lecturer

    agarzonoechsle@ucsd.edu