Many, many belated congratulations to Alicia Wright for the wonderful defense of their thesis, Black Deaf Signers and ASL-English Interpreting in the U.S.: Identity, Access, and Choice. You are sorely missed here.

Congratulations to Micho Min-Torresdey on multiple fronts: for winning a Friends of the Bancroft Library Award from UC Berkeley; for making the 2026-7 Reimagining Refuge Graduate Fellows cohort, run by UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies; and for winning a small research grant from UCSD’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research.

Our call for Kitchen Session presenters is open year-round. Kitchen Sessions provide a friendly, low-stakes setting where grad students and faculty can share raw ethnographic materials and collectively brainstorm directions for analysis. Presenters from any department are welcome. No background in linguistic anthropology is required, just an interest in exploring what this kind of approach to your materials can yield. Click here for more details.

Remember, grad students can get academic credit for attending the Linguistic Anthropology Workshop: 1 unit per quarter for up to 4 quarters. The course number is ANTH 241.

For the 2026-27 academic year, Linguistic Anthropology is offering the following courses:
- ANTH 4. Words and Worlds: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (DEI; Yeh, fall)
- ANSC 122. Language in Society (DEI; instructor and quarter TBA)
- ANSC 162. Language, Identity, and Community (DEI; instructor and quarter TBA)
- ANTH 280F. Language, Semiosis, Culture (Yeh, winter; fulfils the grad core requirement in Linguistic Anthropology)

Emeritus Lab member John Haviland came out recently with two new essays: "'Nojon beel xal, xk'oon lok'el ts'in at'ele' (Me voy satisfecho, así llego bien en el trabajo): multimodal polyphonies, phatic communion, and metaconversation in a Tseltal encounter" and "Mastery, modality, and Tsotsil Coexpressivity" in Languages.

Rihan Yeh has an essay on "Ghost Deixis and the Public Secret in Tijuana, Mexico" out in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. This is a piece 100% conceived of and developed in the Lab--thanks to everyone who made it possible!

Drew Kerr has accumulated a nice set of author interviews, plus a book review:
- Interview with Shenila Khoja-Moolji on Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan
- Interview with Moyukh Chatterjee on Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities
- Interview with Dan White on Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
- Interview with Marina Peterson on Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
- Review of Tarini Bedi's Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

Damini Pant also has a couple book reviews out, with more on the way:
- Review of Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below, edited by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi
- Review of Tiruvalluvar's The Book of Desire, translated by Meena Kandasamy