SACC Mentors
SACC mentors are members who have volunteered to answer your questions. Please feel free to contact one or more of the mentors listed below.
Dr. Jessica Amato
Napa Valley College, Napa, CA
Teaching: Four-field approach, Linguistic Anthro, Bio Anthro with Lab.
Research: Political ecology theory and science/conservation studies.
Anthony Balzano, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology & Sociology
Dept. of Social Sciences & History
Sussex County (NJ) Community College
Teaching: 4-fields, Cultural, Physical, the Caribbean, religion, drugs, body art/body modification, music.
Research: undergraduate pedagogy, Haiti, land tenure, peasant agriculture, agroforestry, NGO’s, Haitian diaspora.
SKYPE: anthonybalzano
SCCC Office: 973-300-2177
Cell: 973-271-7680
Autumn Cahoon
Adjunct Professor Anthropology
Sierra College
Teaching: Physical Anthropology (lecture and lab), Forensic Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology (online and face to face)
Research: Sex estimation, Sociolinguistics
Laura T. González
Associate Professor, Anthropology
San Diego Miramar College
Teaching: Cultural and Physical Anthropology
Research: Food and Culture, Arranged Marriage in India
Patricia Hamlen
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Harper College, Chicago, IL
Teaching/research: Introduction to Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archeology, current topics in anthropology, globalization
(847) 925-6215
Angela C. Jenks, Ph.D.
Current position: LPSOE, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Previous position: Full-time Instructor of Anthropology, Los Angeles Southwest College
Areas of teaching/research: Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Anthropology, United States
Contact: angela.jenks@gmail.com
Diane Levine
Retired Chair of Anthropological and Geographical Sciences
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA
Fields of teaching/research: Linguistics, Native Americans, Gender
Tad McIlwraith
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Teaching/research: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Indigenous Peoples of North America