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Affiliated Faculty Research in Anthropology

  • John Haviland

    Dr. John Haviland’s research looks at the social life of language including gesture, emerging sign languages, and interaction. His research has focused on speakers of Tzotzil (Mayan) in highland Chiapas, Mexico, and its neighbors, as well as on communities of speakers of (Paman) languages from the area north of Cooktown, in far north Queensland, Australia.

    jhaviland@ucsd.edu | website

  • Steven Parish

    Dr. Steven Parish's research interests include cultural, medical, and psychological anthropology. His research has addressed a number of topics in psychological anthropology – with a central focus on the study of self, emotion, and moral experience.

    sparish@ucsd.edu | website

  • Katerina Semendeferi

    Dr. Katerina Semendeferi’s work focuses on the comparative neuroanatomy of the human brain; specifically, exploring neural systems involved in complex cognitive and emotional processes in humans, apes and other primates, as well as in human mental disorders.

    ksemende@ucsd.edu | website