Our Advisors
Eugene Scott, M.A.
Eugene Scott is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Los Angeles Valley College. He joined the faculty in 2001. Professor Scott received a bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of La Verne and a master’s degree in Anthropology from California State University at Fullerton where he was the recipient of several awards including the International Society for Trans-Oceanic Research Award and the California State University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. His thesis work was an ethnographic examination of the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. Professor Scott teaches Cultural Anthropology and the Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft. When he is not pursuing interests in fashion, art, and music, he likes to spend time with his dog Finn. |
Kenneth (Duke) Feldmeier
Duke Feldmeier has a background in Applied Anthropology. His research examined Neo-Liberal Ideology and its effects on rural Mexico. Duke worked to build sustainable models with organic farms in Guanajuato, MX. Currently he is interested in food and its impacts on culture. How food and restaurants are being used to break down cultural barriers and bring about upward mobility. His areas of interest include community development, immigration, border history and violence, food and culture. |
Angela Rockett Kirwin, M.A.
Angela Kirwin describes herself as primarily a cultural anthropologist with applied fieldwork all over the world as a volunteer disaster relief worker for a small non-profit organization as well as the American Red Cross locally. She has done ethnographic research of foodways of triathletes and ultrarunners in Southern California and she has worked as a user interface UI testing for online media for several companies. She has worked in two other subdisciplines of anthropology as well: doing historic archaeology as a field tech at the Ventura Mission for a local public archaeology firm and primatology for a census of wild howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in Gigante, Nicaragua for a local game guide eco-tour service. Before becoming an anthropologist, she worked for the Jane Goodall Institute as a website project manager and as a web developer for Patagonia and other companies. She keeps fit and sane by running, swimming, and hiking. |