Colleges and Universities Attended
1986-1987
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1987-1988
Assumption Business Administration College, Bangkok, Thailand
1988-1991
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
1990
Beijing University, Beijing, China
Summer 1991
Intensive Japanese Summer Program. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Summer 1995
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
1991-1997
Stanford University (Linguistics)
Degrees and Dates Awarded
1990
Advanced Level Chinese Language Certificate
1991
B.A. with Honors. Phi Beta Kappa. Grinnell College.
(Independent Major: Languages and Linguistics)
1994
M.A. Stanford University. (Major: Linguistics)
M.A. Thesis Title: “They Speak More Caucasian”: Generational Differences in the Speech of Japanese-Americans. Director: John Rickford.
1997
PhD Stanford University. (Major: Linguistics)
Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School. Director: Penny Eckert.
Scholarly Books & Refereed Chapters in Scholarly Books
Refereed Journal Articles
2017
Embodied Entanglements: Electrodermal Activity, Interaction, and Videogames. (1st author, with Scarlett Eisenhauer, Wesley Wilson, Cory Flores) Journal of Sociolinguistics.
2017
Bad Hombres: Images of Masculinity and Historical Consciousness of U.S./Mexico Relations in the Age of Trump. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.
2015
Sociopolitical Resources and Youth Movements (1st author, with Aomar Boum). Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 44, 2015
2011d
The Multiple Voices of Jane Hill. (2nd author, with Jennifer Roth-Gordon) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(2): 157-165.
2011c
The Semiotic Hitchhiker’s Guide to Creaky Voice: Circulation and Gendered Hardcore in a Chicana/o Gang Persona. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(2): 260-278.
2011b
Special Issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology on the Work of Jane Hill. Co-edited with Jennifer Roth-Gordon.
2011a
Semiotic Layering Through Gesture and Intonation: A Case Study of Complementary and Supplementary Multimodality in Political Speech. (1st author, with Stefanie Jannedy) Journal of English Linguistics 39(3): 265 - 299.
2011b
Special Issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology on the Work of Jane Hill. Co-edited with Jennifer Roth-Gordon.
2011a
Semiotic Layering Through Gesture and Intonation: A Case Study of Complementary and Supplementary Multimodality in Political Speech. (1st author, with Stefanie Jannedy) Journal of English Linguistics 39(3): 265 - 299.
2006
Structuring Information through Gesture and Intonation (with Stefanie Jannedy). Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 3: 199–244.
2003
Functionalism is/n't Formalism (with Andrew Carnie): An Interactive Review Article. Journal of Linguistics. 39(2). 373-389. (refereed review article)
2000
Style. In "Lexicon for the New Millennium" Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. (p. 343-344)
1999
Sociolinguistic and Linguistic Anthropological Studies of U.S. Latinos. Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 28. (pp. 375-395)
1996
“Muy Macha”: Gender and Ideology in Gang Girls’ Discourse about Makeup. Ethnos:Journal of Anthropology 6 (91-2). (pp. 47-63)
1995a
Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting As Far As Constructions. Language 71(1) (with John Rickford, Thomas Wasow, and Juli Espinoza) (pp. 102-131)
Electronic Publications, Scholarly
(non-peer reviewed)
2002
Talkin’ Californian: The Real California English (2nd author, with Penelope Eckert). Language Magazine. Vol. 1(7). (pp. 29-34)
1999
Oprah and /ay/: Lexical Frequency, Referee Design, and Style (with Jennifer Hay and Stefanie Jannedy). In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, August 1999. (http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/jen/documents/icphs.html Approximately 10pp., proceedings on CD-ROM.)
Electronic Publications, Pedagogical
(non-peer reviewed)
2001-present.
Anthropology 383: Varieties of English. http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~anth383. Course website that includes interactive digital material, including assigments, readings and a video exam. Collaborator and webmaster: Nicole Taylor (01-02).
2000-present.
The Language Samples Project. http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp. Interactive pedagogical website and data repository for information on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics/dialectology of varieties of English around the world. Collaborators and webmasters: Sean Hendricks (00-01), Robert Kennedy (01-02).
Summer 2017
Visiting Professor. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Department of Linguistics, University of Kentucky – Lexington.
2014-present
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, UCLA
2012-2014
Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Anthropology, U of Arizona
2005-2014
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Interactional Sociolinguistics Laboratory Director.
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ
Summer 2011
Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Summer 2011
Visiting Professor. Summer School in Sociolinguistics. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer 2009
Visiting Professor. Summer School in Sociolinguistics. Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summer 2007
Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Summer 2005
Visiting Professor. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Department of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1998-2005
Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology.
Interactional Sociolinguistics Laboratory Director.
Department of Anthropology,
University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ
1996-1998
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Sociolinguistics.
Interactional Sociolinguistics Laboratory Director.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Invited Presentations and Workshops
2017c
Invited Speaker. University of Minnesota. (funded)
2017b
Invited Speaker. SDSU Linguistics. (funded)
2017a
Plenary speaker (planned) Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference (funded)
2016e
Invited speaker. UC San Diego Anthropology.
2016d
Plenary Speaker. Hermosillo, Mexico. (funded)
2016c
Plenary Speaker. V Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística, Mexico City, Mexico. (funded)
2016b
Plenary Speaker. Language, Belonging, and Indexicality Conference, Oxford Universtiy. (funded)
2016a
Plenary Speaker. Symposium about Language and Society – Austin (funded)
2015e
The Interpretation of Non-Native Speakers in Police Encounters. Keynote Speaker, Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics. Washington, D.C. (funded)
2015d
Police Stops and Non-(Native) Speakers of English. Plenary speaker. CLIC/LISO Conference. University of California at Santa Barbara (funded)
2015c
Latina/o Gangs and Identity in the United States. Keynote Speaker. Urban Fragmentations: Borders and Identity Conference. Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany (funded)
2015b
Chicano Rap in New Media. Seminar at King’s College, London, UK. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2014f
University of Queensland Department of Anthropology Lecture. Brisbane, QLD, Australia (funded)
2014e
ANU Department of Linguistics Lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014d
ANU Dept. of Anthropology Colloquium. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014c
ANU Humanities Center lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia (funded)
2014b
Kawaii Me not: Gender, Gangs and Language/Longing. UC - San Diego. (funded)
2014a
Plenary Speaker, The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic Languages and Literaures. Columbus, OH. (funded)
Invited Presentations and Workshops
2017c
Invited Speaker. University of Minnesota. (funded)
2017b
Invited Speaker. SDSU Linguistics. (funded)
2017a
Plenary speaker (planned) Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference (funded)
2016e
Invited speaker. UC San Diego Anthropology.
2016d
Plenary Speaker. Hermosillo, Mexico. (funded)
2016c
Plenary Speaker. V Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística, Mexico City, Mexico. (funded)
2016b
Plenary Speaker. Language, Belonging, and Indexicality Conference, Oxford Universtiy. (funded)
2016a
Plenary Speaker. Symposium about Language and Society – Austin (funded)
2015e
The Interpretation of Non-Native Speakers in Police Encounters. Keynote Speaker, Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics. Washington, D.C. (funded)
2015d
Police Stops and Non-(Native) Speakers of English. Plenary speaker. CLIC/LISO Conference. University of California at Santa Barbara (funded)
2015c
Latina/o Gangs and Identity in the United States. Keynote Speaker. Urban Fragmentations: Borders and Identity Conference. Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany (funded)
2015b
Chicano Rap in New Media. Seminar at King’s College, London, UK. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2014f
University of Queensland Department of Anthropology Lecture. Brisbane, QLD, Australia (funded)
2014e
ANU Department of Linguistics Lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014d
ANU Dept. of Anthropology Colloquium. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014c
ANU Humanities Center lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia (funded)
2014b
Kawaii Me not: Gender, Gangs and Language/Longing. UC - San Diego. (funded)
2014a
Plenary Speaker, The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic Languages and Literaures. Columbus, OH. (funded)
2013h
Hemispheric Localism and Gang Membership among Latina/Latino Gangs in Northern California, Universitaet Bern, Department of English Linguistics. Bern, Switzerland (funded)
2013c
Arizona Englishes, Voice Onset Time, and Social Networks (Plenary Speaker) , Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson.
2013b
Hemispheric Localism and Gang Membership among Latina/Latino Gangs in Northern California, University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology (funded)
2013a
Citizen Rage. Invited speaker, New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section. (funded)
2012e
Plenary speaker, New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, Bloomington, IN. (funded) Talk title: Where does the Sociolinguistic Variable Start? Presentation available at: http://prezi.com/y5ji-kzpkiok/where-does-the-sociolinguistic-variable-start/?auth_key=0c235d5ca9db535f42912312e1fc79ff8c7529a8&kw=view-y5ji-kzpkiok&rc=ref-19313774
2012d
Hemispheric Localism and Gangs on YouTube, Emory University, Spanish Department and Anthropology Department (funded)
2012c
Where does the Sociolinguistic Variable Start?, Michigan State University, Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology (funded)
2012b
The Gesture-Intonation Interface, Columbia University-Barnard College, Department of Psychology (funded)
Invited Presentations and Workshops
2017c
Invited Speaker. University of Minnesota. (funded)
2017b
Invited Speaker. SDSU Linguistics. (funded)
2017a
Plenary speaker (planned) Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference (funded)
2016e
Invited speaker. UC San Diego Anthropology.
2016d
Plenary Speaker. Hermosillo, Mexico. (funded)
2016c
Plenary Speaker. V Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística, Mexico City, Mexico. (funded)
2016b
Plenary Speaker. Language, Belonging, and Indexicality Conference, Oxford Universtiy. (funded)
2016a
Plenary Speaker. Symposium about Language and Society – Austin (funded)
2015e
The Interpretation of Non-Native Speakers in Police Encounters. Keynote Speaker, Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics. Washington, D.C. (funded)
2015d
Police Stops and Non-(Native) Speakers of English. Plenary speaker. CLIC/LISO Conference. University of California at Santa Barbara (funded)
2015c
Latina/o Gangs and Identity in the United States. Keynote Speaker. Urban Fragmentations: Borders and Identity Conference. Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany (funded)
2015b
Chicano Rap in New Media. Seminar at King’s College, London, UK. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2015a
Localism, New Media. Middlebury College, Vermont. (funded)
2014f
University of Queensland Department of Anthropology Lecture. Brisbane, QLD, Australia (funded)
2014e
ANU Department of Linguistics Lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014d
ANU Dept. of Anthropology Colloquium. Canberra, ACT, Australia
2014c
ANU Humanities Center lecture. Canberra, ACT, Australia (funded)
2014b
Kawaii Me not: Gender, Gangs and Language/Longing. UC - San Diego. (funded)
2014a
Plenary Speaker, The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic Languages and Literaures. Columbus, OH. (funded)
2013h
Hemispheric Localism and Gang Membership among Latina/Latino Gangs in Northern California, Universitaet Bern, Department of English Linguistics. Bern, Switzerland (funded)
2013c
Arizona Englishes, Voice Onset Time, and Social Networks (Plenary Speaker) , Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson.
2013b
Hemispheric Localism and Gang Membership among Latina/Latino Gangs in Northern California, University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology (funded)
2013a
Citizen Rage. Invited speaker, New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section. (funded)
2012e
Plenary speaker, New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, Bloomington, IN. (funded) Talk title: Where does the Sociolinguistic Variable Start? Presentation available at: http://prezi.com/y5ji-kzpkiok/where-does-the-sociolinguistic-variable-start/?auth_key=0c235d5ca9db535f42912312e1fc79ff8c7529a8&kw=view-y5ji-kzpkiok&rc=ref-19313774
2012d
Hemispheric Localism and Gangs on YouTube, Emory University, Spanish Department and Anthropology Department (funded)
2012c
Where does the Sociolinguistic Variable Start?, Michigan State University, Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology (funded)
2012b
The Gesture-Intonation Interface, Columbia University-Barnard College, Department of Psychology (funded)
2012a
Hemispheric Localism and Its Consequences, 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Tucson, Arizona. (funded)
2011b
Political Town Hall Meetings and Constituent Disagreement in American Politics, Interaction and Meaning Conference (I-Mean 3), University of Bristol, UK. (funded)
2011a
Arizona Englishes: Voice Onset Timing, Perceptual Dialectology, and Social Networks in Tucson, AZ, Variation in Language Processing Conference (VaLP), Manchester, UK. (funded)
2010a
Face-Threatening Interactions between Constituents and a Congressman, University of Texas – Austin, Department of Linguistics (funded)
2009f
Face-Threatening Interactions between Constituents and a Congressman, University of California – Berkeley, Department of Linguistics (funded)
2009e
Biomechanics of Language and Gesture, UC San Diego: Sandrizona Conference Plenary (funded)
2009d
Norteño and Sureño Gangs on YouTube, UC Santa Barbara: Vox California Conference (funded)
2009c
Five Fields Update: Linguistic Anthropology. Invited panelist, Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (funded)
2009b
Grammaticalization and Sociophonetics, Humboldt University Berlin (funded)
2009a
Chicano Gangs on YouTube, University of California – Berkeley, Center for Youth Studies (funded)
2008d
Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practices, American University of Paris, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.
2008c
Sociophonetics and Conversation, ZAS, Humboldt University Berlin. (funded)
2008b
Memorialization and Material Culture among Latina Gang Girls, New York University Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology (funded)
2008a
Phonologization and Sociophonetics, Phonologization Conference, University of Chicago Linguistics. (funded)
2007b
Linguistic Variation in Micro-Time, CLASP conference, University of Colorado. (funded)
2007a
Convergent Approaches in the Study of Conversation and Sociophonetics (with special reference to exemplar theory). CLIC/LISO conference, UCSB (funded)
2006c
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Depts. Of Spanish, Linguistics, and Program in Latino Studies. (funded)
2006b
University of California – Santa Barbara. Department of Linguistics (funded)
2006a
Homegirls and their linguistic practice. New Mexico State University. Spanish Department. (funded)
2005h
Syntactic Variation Workshop Organizer. ZAS (Center for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals). Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin, Germany. (funded)
2005g
Smile Now Cry Later. University of Freiburg. Freiburg, Germany. (funded)
2005f
Phonetic Parameters in the Study of Social Variation. Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. (funded)
2005e
Focus on Irish English: Intonation Workshop. Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. (funded)
2005d
Language and Politics in the United States. Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. (funded)
2005c
Smile Now Cry Later: Acting Hardcore in a Chicano English Anti-Language. United Kingdom Language Variation and Change Conference. University of Aberdeen. Aberdeen, Scotland. (funded)
2005b
Circulating the State: Gesture, Constituent Claims, and Political Discourse. Invited Speaker at Mershon Center Conference: Circulating Cultures. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.
2005a
Digital Fieldwork for Linguistic Anthropologists: A Demonstration. University of California-San Diego. Departments of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies. (funded)
Submitted, Refereed Presentations
2014
Society for Linguistic Anhropology Presidential Panel: On Mentoring and the Job Market. Organizer and Chair, American Anthropological Association.
2013
Society of Linguistic Anthropology Presidential Conversation: New Perspectives on Migration. Organizer and Chair, American Anthropological Association.
2012
Society of Linguistic Anthropology Presidential Panel: New Directions in Methodology. Organizer and Chair, American Anthropological Association.
2012
Expressing what’s at stake: the use of modal adjective extraposition in type 1 and 2 diabetes encounters. (2nd author, with Ashley Hesson) Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics. Washington, D. C.
2011
Intertextuality, Historical Consciousness, and Virtual Geographies:
Chicano Rap Fan-Videos and Commentary on YouTube. American Anthropological Association.
2009b
Migration Panel, Invited Discussant. American Anthropological Association, Philadelhia, PA.
2009a
Language and Localism in New Media: English and Spanish in California Youth Subcultures on YouTube. United Kingdom Language Variation and Change Conference, York, UK.
2008
Language, Representation, and Virtual Geographies: Chicano-Gangster-Rap Fan-Videos and Commentary on YouTube. American Anthropological Association
2007b
Creaky Voice in Chola Narratives and Beyond. American Anthropological Association.
2007a
Modelling Synchrony and Entrainment for Sociolinguistic Variation. Poster Presentation. New Ways of Analyzing Variation.
2006
Semiotic Layering of Gesture and Intonation (with Stefanie Jannedy). Linguistic Society of America.
2005
Current Trends in Sociophonetics. American Anthropological Association.
FEDERAL
2014
National Science Foundation Pre-dissertation Grant Awarded to doctoral student Molly Bloom working under my supervision. Project: Wheelchair Basketball and Disability Studies in Morocco.
2010
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Youth in Debate with the West: Citizenship within and beyond the European Classroom. Grant awarded to doctoral student Maisa Taha working under my supervision.
STATE
2015-2017
Faculty Research Grant, UCLA
2015
Faculty Travel Grant, UCLA
2013
LGBTQ studies grant for research on New Media, University of Arizona
2011
Cognitive Science GIDP, University of Arizona. Summer GRA grant
2009
Magellan Grant. Co Investigator: David Raichlen. Collaborative with faculty member at UA.
2009
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. Arizona Englishes Project. University of Arizona. (with Adam Ussishkin and Andy Wedel)
2008
SBS Unit Research Activity Funding Grant. Co Investigator: Heidi Harley. Collaborative with faculty member at UA.
2004
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Small Grants Program. University of Arizona. For pilot research: Linguistic Dimensions of Latin American Immigration to Spain.
PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND DONORS
2018
Mellon Foundation Grant. Allianance for Multicampus Inclusive Graduate Admissions. (co-PI)
2015
Gift from Patricia Anawalt (private donor) for the Mapping Language in Los Angeles project.
2012
Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Negotiating the Hierarchy of Languages in Ilocandia. Grant awarded to me as P.I. for doctoral student Dana Osborne working under my supervision.
2011-13
National Institute for Civil Discourse Inaugural Research Award for the Project “Citizen Rage: Representative-Constituent Face-Threatening Interactions in Town Hall Meetings.”
2004
Media Scripts and Interpretive Processes in Arab Domestic Discourse. Wenner-Gren / CAORC grant for multi-country research comparing Moroccan family media-based interactions to those of Lebanese families. Grant awarded to doctoral Student Becky Schulthies working under my supervision.
LOCAL/STATE OUTREACH
(including media features)
2015
Daily Bruin interview on gender bias in university teaching evaluations. http://dailybruin.com/2015/02/23/chloe-lew-evaluations-should-reflect-instruction-quality-not-gender-bias/
2014-present
Board Member, BICAS (Bicycle Community Arts and Salvage), Community nonprofit organization.
2013
Founding Member, Southern Arizona Women’s Foundation, Research and Public Policy Planning Council.
2012
Arizona Daily Star interview on the Public Sphere.
2011
Tucson Book Festival. Featured Author.
National & International Outreach
(including media features)
2016
Expert Witness -- Case of Bilingual Miranda Rights. State of Arizona.
2015
Wonderland magazine interview on Chola Style. Feb 2015.
2014
Opinion Piece in Arizona Daily Star: “Why do We Laud “Toughness’ in Politics?” Published March 21, 2014. http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/norma-mendoza-denton-why-do-we-laud-toughness-in-politics/article_a8f0aae4-f2cb-5449-9315-1c6b6a2d57e1.html
2014
Television interview – KUAT-KUAZ, on Conflict in Town Hall Meetings. Initially aired on local NPR affiliates March 12, 2014, rebroadcast on NPR radio through the end of the year.
2012
Joint research with Melissa Iwai on Japanese-American English was featured on KQED’s Forum with Michael Krazny, in a segment on California Accents. http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212191000
2012
WBEZ Chicago NPR affiliate – Interview on Chicano English in Chicago, broadcast date mid-December 2012, project website: http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/chuh-kaw-go-what-do-you-really-sound-103361
2011
Profile in The Gunnery’s Alumni Magazine, https://portal.gunnery.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=287&articleID=1731
2010
Joint research with Penny Eckert was featured in a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens in his column “On Language.” Article Title: “The Other L-Word.” http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/01/hitchens-like-201001
2008
Legal Consultant on language issues. NBC/Telemundo.
2007
Specialized Consultation. Pro Bono. Southern Paiute Film. I helped the Southern Paiute tribe (in conjunction with the National Park Service and through the Bureau of Applied Anthropology) to develop a film on traditional Paiute weaving. I donated time and labor towards this project, and the use of my laboratory for editing and lab equipment for filming.
Summer 2006
KQED (NPR affiliate) Interview on Forum: with Michael Krasny. San Francisco, CA. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R606161000
Membership in Professional Organizations
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American Anthropological Association
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Linguistic Society of America
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology
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Society for Visual Anthropology
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International Gender and Language Association
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Modern Language Association
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Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
Offices in Professional Organizations
2015-2017
Executive Board, Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2013
Chair, Search Committee for new editor of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
2011-2013
President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2010-2011
President-Elect, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2006-2008
Executive Board member, Minority Seat, American Anthropological Association
2000-2002
Member, Committee for the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America
Presses
American Ethnologist; Wiley/Blackwell Publishers; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; The Ohio State University Press; Sage Publishers; Tilburg University Press, Netherlands, Routledge, Palgrave.
journals
Discourse and Society; Ethnos; Gender and Language, Hispanic Linguistics; Journal of Phonetics; Language; Language in Society; Language Variation and Change, Latino Studies; Narrative Inquiry, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist.
Research Programs and Foundations
National Science Foundation (Anthropology and Linguistics Programs); Spencer Foundation Major Grants Program; Ford Foundation; School of American Research; Agence Nationale de Recherche, France; Swiss National Research Foundation; The Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.
conference reviews
American Anthropological Association, New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Linguistic Society of America, LSRL, Hispanic Linguistics
conference and
workshop organizations
2016
“Racialized State Violence in a Global Perspective,” sponsored by multiple departments in the Humanities and Soc ial and Behavioral Sciences. Co-Organizer, UCLA.
2015-2016
“Body Talk” Workshop Organizer. Center for Language Interaction and Culture, UCLA.
2013
Third Arizona Ethnographic Film Festival
2010
Second Arizona Ethnographic Film Festival
2009
First Sandrizona Conference. Faculty Advisor for graduate students
2008
Arizona Anthropology-Linguistics (AZ-ANLI) Conference
2007
First University of Arizona Ethnographic Film Festival
conference and
workshop organizations
2016-present
Editorial Board, Annual Review of Linguistics. Annual Reviews, Inc.
2007-2016
Co-Editor, New Directions in Ethnography Book Series. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
2006-2011
Editorial Board, Journal of Sociolinguistics
2005-present
Editorial Board. Discourse and Culture Book Series. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
2001-2006
Associate Editor, Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America
2001-2005
International Advisory Board: Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
2001-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
UCLA
department committees
2015-present
Member, Lemelson Undergraduate Program Committee
2014-present
Member, Awards Committee
2015-6
Member, Standing Review Committee
college committees
2016
Chicano Studies Research Center Faculty Advisory Committee
2014-Present
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture.
national services
2013
Selection Committee, School for Anthropological Research, New Mexico.
2009-2010
Committee of Visitors, SBE Directorate National Science Foundation (Appointed member)
2008
Selection Committee. Ford Minority Predoctoral Fellowships. National Academies
2003-2006
Core Committee, Terascale Linguistics Project. Representing the field of Linguistics to the National Science Foundation in working toward a new directorate-scale funding initiative.
2016
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Curso magistral honorario invitado. México, D.F., México.
2014
Visiting Fellowship in the Humanities Research Center, Australian National University. Project title: Latina/o Gangs on YouTube: Language, Localism, and Music Fandom in Social Media. Fellowship held in Summer 2014.
2012
Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture: “Awarded to a distinguished scholar in Linguistics.” Florida International University.
2011b
National Institute for Civil Discourse Inaugural Research Award for the Project “Citizen Rage: Representative-Constituent Face-Threatening Interactions in Town Hall Meetings.”
2011a
Academic Leadership Institute Fellow. University of Arizona
2007
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture. Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan.
2006
Invitation to be a Scholar-in-Residence, Spring Semester. Indiana University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
2003b
Humanities/Social and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Scholar Lecture. University of Arizona.
2003a
Interactive Multimedia Festival Winner: People’s Choice Award. Awarded to Varieties of English website for entry in the Learning Objects Category. University of Arizona. www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp
2002
The Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio Residency Fellowship. Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy. Summer 2002.
2000
Grinnell College Alumni Scholar. May 2000.
1995-1996
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. The Spencer Foundation.
1995
Linguistic Institute Fellowship. Linguistic Society of America.
1994-1995
Dissertation Fellowship. Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Stanford University.
1991-1995
University Fellowship. Stanford University.
1991c
Best Undergraduate Paper in Sociology. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Iowa Sociological Association.
1991b
Phi Beta Kappa. Grinnell College Chapter.
1991a
Japanese Language Study Fellowship. Program for Institutional Collaboration in Area Studies (PICAS). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1990
Pi Sigma Alpha (National College Honor Society).