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

Erin Debenport

Associate Professor

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

Paul V. Kroskrity

Distinguished Professor

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

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