Adjunct Professors & Lecturers
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For information about former instructors, email antsocap@ucsd.edu
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Jon Bialecki
Lecturer
Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC San Diego
jbialecki@ucsd.eduResearch 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.
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Jana Fortier
Lecturer
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
jfortier@ucsd.eduResearch 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.
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Ian W. N. Jones
Lecturer
Ph.D in Anthropology, UC San Diego
Research interests: Archaeology of the medieval Middle East, Levantine archaeology, digital/cyber-archaeology, human-environment interactions, labor, production systems, copper production, sugar production, rural/village life, political economy, mineral resource exploitation, social archaeology, ceramics
For more information, visit ianwnjones.com
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Alex Stewart
Lecturer
Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC San Diego
a1stewar@ucsd.eduResearch Interests: Islamic revival, ethnic identity in modern China, multiculturalism, cultural anthropology, East Asian societies, Chinese American culture, anthropology of religion, transnational identities.
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Tim K. Mackey
Adjunct Professor
Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
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.
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Linnea Wilder
Linnea L. Wilder
Lecturer
Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
Research interests: Biological anthropology, human evolution, human anatomy, brain evolution and development, non-human primate behavior, cognition, and evolution
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Neil Smith
Neil G. Smith
Lecturer
Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Dr. Smith’s research interests focus on the merging of computational science with a variety of domain driven research topics including disciplines such as archaeology, cultural heritage, digital humanities, geophysics, marine science, and urban reconstruction. Current research has focused on novel computer vision solutions that incorporate geographic information systems, scientific visualization, informatics, and simulation. Recent research at VCC has led to the development of non-invasive remote sensing techniques (e.g. SfM, LiDAR) including aerial based scanning techniques using unmanned multi-rotor copters mounted with imaging sensors.
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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.