cuyleruyle
CONTACT INFO:
510 428-1578
eruyle@csulb.edu
Personal Information ----- Runing Trails
Family photos ----- Political history
This page is still in development, bear with me.
Briefly, I am a Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at CSULB. My real love lies in the intersection of Anthropology and Marxism and that's where I spend a lot of my time. .
I have sold my home in Long Beach and bought a new one near Ashby Bart in Oakland.
Here in Long Beach, I usually run over in Palo Verde or in Bolsa Chica. My favorite trails, though, are in the Forest of Nisene Marks, ner Santa Cruz, the Dipsea near Muir Woods, and Tilden and Redwood Park, near Oakland. As you can see, I'm partial to redwoods. More later.
Gene at CodePink demonstration in Berkeley, 2007
Gene in Mexico City, 1999
Gene in Oceanside, 2004
Jon and Sarah, April 2003 
Jon, Jordan, Jen, & A 
Sarah & Nathan 
admiring Nathan 
Ching & Nathan 
Gene & Nathan 2006 
Gene at Japan Sea coast, 1978 
When I got out of the Marines in 1960, I was fairly apolitical and conservative. After graduating from Berkeley in 1963, I moved to the east geographically and to the left politically. I was a sympathetic observer and sometime participant in various anti-war and civil rights activities at Yale and Columbia in the mid and late 1960s, but mostly I was student trying to figure out how to put Anthropology and Marxism together.
In the 70s, I began teaching at the University of Virginia and began to develop my theoretical perspective. I was denied tenure (because of what the Dean called my "dull, old fashioned, doctrinaire, and incredibly naïve Marxism.") but found another position at Cal State Long Beach..
In the 80s, after gaining tenure at CSULB, I became active in the Peace and Freedom Party and ran for Congress in 1982. In the late 80s, after Jesse Jackson's showing in Super Tuesday, I joined the Rainbow Coalition which was pretty exciting for a while, but then it fizzled. I was active with the Peter Carr Peace Center on campus in opposing the Gulf War, and, in its aftermath, I helped organize the Peace Studies Program at CSULB.
Starting in late 1992, I was deeply involved in the Puvungna sacred site struggle, which was successful in blocking the commercial development of the National Register site of Puvungna on the Cal State Long Beach campus.
In 1999, I helped organize the Long Beach Area Peace Network (LBAPN), which continues to be a primary focus of my political work.
I retired in 2002, but continued to teach eavery Fall in the FERP program (Faculty Early Retirement Program) until December 2006. I am now completely retired and living in Oakland.