| June Anderson,
Program Supervisor
Specializing in urban ethnography, June conducts research and fieldwork within ethnic neighborhoods of the Bay Area, primarily documenting the contemporary folk art traditions of the many immigrant and Native American groups in our community. Her main area of study is material culture, in particular ethnic textiles, and she has published several books on traditional artists, including studies of Turkish weaving, an African American woodcarver, and a Hmong textile artist. She has degrees in Textile History from Bath Academy of Art in England and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, as well as a masters degree in anthropology from UC Berkeley.
You can reach June at (415) 750-7164 or by email at janderson@calacademy.org. |
| Dr. Jennifer
Michael, Program Coordinator
Jenny's particular interests lie in the adornment, manipulation, and transformation of the body, in women's cultural expression and material culture, especially dress and foodways. Much of her research has focused on ethnic communities in the United States and abroad, including dissertation fieldwork on the women's costume tradition in Arles, France, several years working in urban neighborhoods as a staff folklorist for the Philadelphia Folklore Project, and an oral history study of the tiny African American town of Nicodemus, Kansas--now a National Historic Site--conducted for the National Park Service. A grant from the Louisville Institute allowed Jenny to continue this last project during the summer of 2000 with a study of the local Baptist church. Other current projects include documentation of the annual Moloka'i Ka Hula Piko Festival on the island of Moloka'i, Hawaii (with June Anderson) and a study of Chinese acrobatics. Click here to see Jenny's CV. You can reach Jenny at (415) 750-7165 or by email at jmichael@calacademy.org. |
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Born and raised in England, June Anderson has been a staff member
of the Academy's Anthropology Dept. since 1983 and is currently the
Supervisor of the museum's Traditional Arts Program.
In addition to local projects, June has documented weaving
traditions in the Highlands of 
Jenny Michael joined the Academy of Science's Traditional Arts
Program in May of 1999. She grew up in the Bay Area, where she completed
undergraduate work at Stanford and a master's degree in Folklore at the
University of California at Berkeley. Her studies then took her to
Philadelphia, where she earned a doctorate in Folklore & Folklife from
the University of Pennsylvania. After holding teaching positions at Penn
and Indiana University, Jenny returned to the Bay Area, where, in addition
to her responsibilities at CAS, she is currently teaching in the American
Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley.