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The Lab’s core faculty members are:

John B. Haviland (Professor Emeritus) is an anthropological linguist with interests in the social life of language, including gesture, emerging sign languages, and interaction. He is also an official Tzotzil interpreter for legal and health matters and, accordingly, a student of language, bureaucracies, and the law.

Kathryn Woolard (Professor Emerita) works on language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, and political discourse both in Catalonia (Spain) and the United States. Her most recent book, Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia, won the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's 2017 book prize. Many of her shorter publications may be consulted here.

Rihan Yeh (Associate Professor) studies the effects of the US-Mexico border on publics and the public sphere in Tijuana, Baja California; her first book is titled Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City. Currently, she is writing about the port of entry as a site of visual exchanges and displays, and pursuing new research on the semiotics of mobility.

Charles Zuckerman (Assistant Professor, Boston College) studies multi-modal interaction, morality and economic practice, and the political and pragmatic possibilities of reference and predication in contemporary Laos. He is currently finishing his first book, which uses gambling in Luang Prabang to (a) better understand Laos's late-socialist moment and to (b) think through how anthropologists can and should study named categories. You can find and read his work here.

 

David Pedersen and Joseph Hankins (both Associate Professors) are especially close collaborators in Sociocultural Anthropology.

 

In addition, the Lab occasionally hosts visiting scholars:

James Slotta, Postdoctoral Scholar
2013-2016

Josep Soler Carbonell, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
2009-2011

Soledad de León Torres, CIESAS (Mexico)
November-December 2008

Isabel Galhana Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
Winter 2008