Lecturers

Daria Bahtina

Lecturer

Teaching in Winter 2026:
ANTHRO M150 – Language in Culture

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

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David Cheetham

Lecturer

Teaching in Spring 2025:
ANTHRO 114P – Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica 

Contact Information

Email: dtcheetham@cpp.edu

Sylvia Cho

Lecturer

Teaching in Fall 2025 
ANTHRO 159 – Selected Topics in Linguistic Anthropology: Languages of the World

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Teaching in Winter 2026
152R - LANG&CULTURE&EDUCTN

Teaching in Spring 2026
154P: MULTILINGUALISM

Research Interests:

Global Citizenship Education, Foreign Language Education, Multilingualism in Algeria, Humanistic Pedagogies, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Postcolonial Studies

Subfield:

Foreign Language Education and Amazigh Studies

Contact Information

Email: fadoula85@g.ucla.edu
Office: Haines Hall 351B

Teaching in Spring 2026
ANTHRO 151 – Ethnography of Everyday Speech

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

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Teaching in Fall 2026
ANTHRO 169, Anthropology of Italy and the Mediterranean

Teaching in Winter 2027
ANTHRO 153, Language and Identity

Teaching in Spring 2027
ANTHRO 154P, Multilingualism

Research Interests:

Linguistic anthropology; semiotics; description and attentionality; language and social life; metalingual discourse and translation; interaction and ethnography of communication; archives and historical change; Italy and Sicily; the central Mediterranean; Italian colonialism and Libya.

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: nalamattina@ucla.edu

Heather Loyd

Lecturer

Teaching in Fall 2025
ANTHRO 141 – Careers in Anthropology

Teaching Spring 2026
ANTHRO 191HE – Publication & Presentations

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: hloyd@ucla.edu
Office: 351B Haines Hall

Teaching in Fall 2024
ANTHRO 113P – Archaeology of North America

Subfield:

Archaeology

Contact Information

Email: fneubauer@ucla.edu

Teaching in Fall 2025
ANTHRO 126P – Paleopathology

Teaching Winter 2026
ANTHRO 129 – Selected Topics in Biological Anthropology: Forensic Anthropology

Teaching Spring 2026
ANTHRO 120 – Survey of Biological Anthropology
ANTHRO 126Q – Evolution of Genus Homo

Subfield:

Biological Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: jbybee@ucla.edu

Teaching in Winter 2026
ANTHRO 100 – History of Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: mindysteinberg@g.ucla.edu

Teaching in Fall 2025
ANTHRO 130 – Study of Culture

Teaching in Winter 2026
ANTHRO 140 – Social Systems

Research Interests:

Social Movements; political prisoners; trauma; resilience; ritual; rites of passages; embodiment; childhood and parenting; Burma/Myanmar

Subfield:

Psychocultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies

Contact Information

Email: seinenu@ucla.edu