LA Valley College Anthropology

Department Faculty

Suzanne Engler

Suzanne Knudson Engler has been teaching with the Los Angeles Community College District and other colleges for the last 30 years, most recently at Los Angeles Valley College. In addition to teaching, Ms. Engler has also been active in course and program development and museum programs. She developed and directed the Popular Anthropology and Archaeology Program for the University of Southern California and developed seminars and workshops in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History , the Southwest Museum, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation , the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, and the Barnsdall Gallery.

Ms. Engler has taught courses in Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and the Anthropology of Religion. Her specialization in archaeology has included field work in Virginia with the Flowerdew Hundred Foundation, at Bronze and Iron Age sections of Hebron, Jordan, and at various California Indian sites. Ms. Engler’s work has also included archival research, focusing on folk medicine and commonplace books in Colonial Virginia.

Ms. Engler received her bachelor’s and mater’s degrees in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles and has received several grants and fellowships, including being a Mellon Fellow and an NEH Institute Fellow. She has published a number of articles and book chapters and is the author of an introductory archaeology textbook.

Rebecca Stein

Rebecca Stein has been teaching with the Los Angeles Community College District since 1995 at various colleges, as well as at Pasadena City College. She joined the Anthropology faculty at Los Angeles Valley College in 2000. Ms. Stein received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles (http://www.ucla.edu), where she received a National Merit Scholarship. Her work has been focused in cultural and psychological anthropology, specifically concerned with child-rearing, transmitting values to children, deviance, gender and religion. She also has an interest in human biological evolution, particularly in the fields of genetics and the new field of Darwinian Psychology.

Ms. Stein has taught course in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Gender and Sex, and will be teaching the new course in Medical Anthropology. She is concerned with the use of technology to enhance education and has developed several anthropology related websites, including the website for the Anthropology department at Valley College.

Ms. Stein has published a workbook in physical anthropology, published by McGraw Hill, and is currently writing a textbook on the anthropology of religion to be published by Allyn & Bacon. She also works as a consultant for Erlich Transcultural Consultants, a firm specializing in ethnic marketing and cultural diversity training.

Eugene Scott

Eugene Sky Scott has been teaching at the community college level since 1995, most recently at Fullerton College, Riverside Community College and the South Orange County Community College District. He joined the Anthropology faculty at Los Angeles Valley College in 2001.

Mr. 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 a California State University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. His master's research was an ethnographic study of the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. Mr. Scott has also worked as an archivist at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

Mr. Scott teaches physical, cultural and archaeological anthropology and is active in many additional activities, including presentations at professional meetings, involvement in local community and cultural events and participating in archaeological digs in the East Mojave.