Albert Gonzalez

Albert Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) in Hayward, California, where he has taught since 2015. He earned BA and MA degrees in history at the University of Texas at Dallas and the MA and PhD in anthropology at Southern Methodist University. His research employs the methods of historical and experimental archaeology alongside those of material culture studies to address questions of importance to indigenous and Latinx populations and descendant stakeholders in California, New Mexico, and Florida.  He teaches a broad array of courses, from Archaeological Science and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World to the History of Mexico and Colonial Latin America. Dr. Gonzalez directs the C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology and the Pacific Earthen Architecture Research Laboratory (PEARL) at CSUEB, where he trains students in the decolonization of museum and laboratory methods as they relate to the interpretation of indigenous and Latinx documents and material culture. Personal website: www.profgonzalez.com