The submission deadline is October 1, 2021. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA member or members… Read More »SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
The Language and Social Justice committee of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) condemns all violent attacks and discrimination against Asian Americans, Asians, and Pacific… Read More »LSJ Statement on Anti-Asian Discrimination
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Dear SLA 2020 Registrants and SLA Membership, As the COVID-19 health and economic crises continue in the US, I wanted to be in touch… Read More »SLA Conference Postponed Until Spring 2021!!
Deadline: February 1, 2020 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces the John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition. Each year the Society for… Read More »2020 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize
Announcing the 2020 Spring Conference of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology “Future Imperfect: Language in Times of Crisis and Hope” April 2-5, 2020, Boulder, Colorado… Read More »Call for Papers: SLA 2020 Spring Conference
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: When Should You Contact an Editor about Whether Reviews are In?
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Initiating Contact Ask an Editor Ilana Gershon February 24, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five… Read More »Ask an Editor: When Should You First Contact an Editor
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Ilana Gershon December 5, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago,… Read More »Ask an Editor: Transforming Articles into Chapters
Donald Brenneis and Ilana Gershon October 22, 2018 Donald Brenneis chatted with Ilana Gershon over Skype about the institutional and collegial relations that shaped his… Read More »Interview with Donald Brenneis after winning the Franz Boas award
Alex Warburton and Meghanne Barker November 23, 2018 Spiritual renewal in Kazakhstan includes orthographic reform. On February 19, 2018, Kazakhstani social media came alive when… Read More »Putting an End to the Rain of Apostrophes
Ask an Editor October 2, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn,… Read More »Ask an Editor: Multiple Press Submissions
Colin Halverson June 11, 2018 On February 14, 2018, 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. News of the… Read More »New Sovereignties and the Translation of Clinical Authority
September 12, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton,… Read More »Ask an Editor: Suggesting Reviewers