Linguistic Anthropology

Program Faculty

• Nora England
  Research interests: Mayan linguistics, linguistic description, language ideologies, identity and language, bilingualism.
  
  

• Elizabeth Keating
  Research interests: Linguistic Anthropology, Micronesia, Language and Status, American Sign Language, New Communication Technologies, Computer-Mediated interaction, Multimodal Communication, Visual Anthropology
  
  

• Angela Nonaka
  Research interests: Language Diversity and Language Endangerment, Language Socialization Studies, Sign Language Linguistics, Deaf Studies, East Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology of Disability, History of Special Education in Asia, Thailand and Japan.
  
  

• Joel Sherzer
  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.
  
  

• Brian M. Stross
  Research interests: Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous Mesoamerica, Maya Iconography and Epigraphy, Anthropology of Food, Ethnobotany