Office: EPS 1.206
Office Hours: On leave
Phone: 512 471 8516
jsherzer@mail.utexas.edu

Additional affiliations: Linguistics

Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Research interests:
Joel Sherzer is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. His field of specialty is linguistic anthropology, with a focus on ethnography of speaking and speech play and verbal art. He has carried out research among the Kuna Indians of Panama and in Bali, Indonesia. His publications include Kuna Ways of Speaking and Verbal art in San Blas. He has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.

Field(s) of Study: Linguistic Anthropology