Jonathan Karpf

Jonathan Karpf was a Lecturer at San José State University from 1987 until he retired at the end of Fall’19. He is currently a Lecturer Emeritus. He is a biological anthropologist whose main interests are human genetics and evolution, alcoholism, the behavior, systematics, and ecology of primates, Mesoamerican prehistory, and social justice in Guatemala. He is also an activist in the California Faculty Association, the union representing the 28,000 faculty in the 23 campus California State University system.