Linguistic Anthropology
H. Samy Alim
Professor and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences
Hip Hop Culture(s) and Hip Hop Linguistics; The language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally; Language, power, and identities; Language, race, racism and racialization; Black Language and linguistics; Global youth cultures; Language, culture, and education; Culturally sustaining pedagogies; U.S., Spain, South Africa.
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: halim@ucla.edu
Office: 318F Haines Hall
Technologies of language circulation; secrecy; indigeneity; semiotics; critical language documentation; language ideologies; Kiowa-Tanoan languages.
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: erindebenport@ucla.edu
Office: 318B Haines Hall
Language and culture; language contact, identity, and ideologies; anthropology and verbal art; ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: paulvk@ucla.edu
Office: 329A Haines Hall
Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: nmd@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 382 Haines Hall
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, African American English, California dialectology, ethnography, community-based participatory research, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, large language models
Subfield:Lingustic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: zmengesh@ucla.edu
