Robert King, Professor, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies
Office: CAL 501; Phone: 512-471-1701, rking@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Current research and publication interests are three: the Yiddish language, especially in relation to what it tells us about Jewish history; the politics of language in general; and, third, the language politics of India in particular. The thread that runs through my current work is the relationship among language, ethnicity, nationhood, and politics in the largest sense of the word. The German language im Ausland offers rich opportunities for research along these lines.

Jürgen Streeck, Associate Professor
Office: CMA 7.136; Phone: 512-471-1955, jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Jürgen Streeck studies human interaction in everyday life. He is particularly interested in the relationships between linguistic and embodied components (multimodality) and in the cultural foundations of communication. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, the Philippines, and the U.S. Dr. Streeck also studies how rappers have re-invented language and how a new community, the 'hip-hop nation', has evolved from new ways of using languages.