I am an Associate Professor at California State University, San Bernardino and Director of the CSUSB Anthropology Museum. I hold a PhD in Anthropology from Boston University, and a MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University. My research and teaching focus on Africa, medical anthropology, and museology.
Terence Ranger Prize winner
Smithsonian Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology (SIMA) Faculty Fellow
California Humanities, Humanities for All Project Grant (In|Dignity)
Christine Wilson Award (Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant
Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation Grant (Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Lago District)