Archaeology
Source: https://anthro.ucla.edu/subfields/archaeology/ Parent: https://anthro.ucla.edu/
[## Stephen Acabado
Professor, Chair of Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/stephen-acabado/)
Research Interests:
Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples; Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: acabado@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 370 Haines Hall \
Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/p-jeffrey-brantingham/)
Research Interests:
Paleoanthropology, simulation modeling, carnivore ecology, hunter-gatherers, stone technology, evolutionary theory; China; Mongolia; Tibet
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: branting@ucla.edu \ Office: 368 Haines Hall \
[## Jason De León
Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/jason-de-leon/)
Research Interests:
Violence; materiality; Latino migration; forensic science; archaeology of the contemporary; photoethnography
Subfield:
Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: jdeleon@ucla.edu \ Office: 364 Haines Hall \
Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/justin-p-dunnavant/)
Research Interests:
Historical Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora, Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trade, Oral History, Community-Based Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Black Geographies
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: jdunnavant@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 387 Haines Hall \
[## Koji Lau-Ozawa
Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/koji-lau-ozawa/)
Research Interests:
Japanese Diaspora, Settler Colonialism, Camps, Indigenous Lands, Asian American History, Community Based Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Memory, Oral History, Landscapes
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: khozawa2@ucla.edu \ Office: 307 Haines Hall \
[## Richard Lesure
Professor, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Endowed Chair in Mesoamerican Archaeology](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/richard-lesure/)
Research Interests:
Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: lesure@ucla.edu \ Office: 324B Haines Hall \
[## Li Min
Associate Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/li-min/)
Research Interests:
Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: limin@humnet.ucla.edu \ Office: 304 Haines Hall \
Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/20403/)
Research Interests:
Disciplinary histories of conservation/conservation science and their intersection with archaeology; preservation and scientific analysis of pottery/ceramics, historic conservation materials, lime-plaster wall paintings, and mudbrick; conservation pedagogy; Türkiye, Guatemala, southwestern USA
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: caitlin.ogrady@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 391 Haines \
Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/gregson-schachner/)
Research Interests:
North American archaeology; population movement; origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies; settlement systems and analysis; ceramic analysis; social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: gschachner@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 302 Haines Hall \
[## Monica L. Smith
Professor, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/monica-l-smith/)
Research Interests:
Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: smith@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 329B Haines Hall \
[## Thomas Wake
Associate Adjunct Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/tom-wake/)
Research Interests:
Archaeological and zooarchaeological research along the eastern Pacific Rim; food and ethnicity; development of social complexity; Caribbean Panama; neotropical archaeology; historical archaeology; natural history; human paleoecology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; comparative osteology
Subfield:
Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: twake@ucla.edu \ Office: A357 Fowler \