Linguistic Anthropology

H. Samy Alim

Professor and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences

Research Interests:

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

Erica Cartmill

Associate Professor

Research Interests:

Evolution of language; gesture; primate communication; human language development; parent-child interaction; language and thought; comparative cognition; great apes

Lab Website: http://linglab.ucla.edu

Subfield:

Biological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: cartmill@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 396 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-5679

Erin Debenport

Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Graduate Studies

Research Interests:

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

Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

Associate Adjunct Professor

Research Interests:

Language and identity; language socialization; parenting and family life; Institutional ideologies and everyday practices; morality; food and health; U.S., Italy, France

Contact Information

Email: tksadlik@ucla.edu
Office: A75A Haines Hall
Phone: 310-267-4261

Research Interests:

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
Phone: 310-825-6237

Research Interests:

Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: nmd@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 382 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-3274