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Marvin Sterling Prof. Marcy Morgan was co-chair of my MA and PhD committees in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. My MA thesis explored the… Read More »Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025

-Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick How could language endangerment, which many scholars see as an alarming problem, be largely invisible to the people whose… Read More »They don’t see a problem, we don’t see the desire for connection: Indifference to language loss in Papua New Guinea and its challenge for research

-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names… Read More »A Navajo Poetry of Place

-Danny Begg Tik Toks, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram reels are all examples of short-form video content that is ubiquitous across social media. The term “doomscrolling”… Read More »“Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression

-Joseph Wilson The following is an (lightly edited) excerpt from Joseph Wilson’s forthcoming book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines to be… Read More »Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI

Margaret Rex, University of Buffalo In the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere. The tamest of these theories assert… Read More »Researching the Right in the Era of Hurricane Truthers

Rajvir Rai, UCSB This case study examines language education at the University Basic School (UBS) in Accra, Ghana. A linguistic anthropological perspective is used to address… Read More »GLOBALIZING LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND PRESERVING MOTHER TONGUE: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BASIC SCHOOL