SLA Blog Post

Author with students and community partners at course event By Lynnette Arnold At the start of every semester, I find myself pondering again the significance… Read More »“Teaching to Advance Social Justice”

By Adeli Block I have found that scholars and non-scholars alike still continue to refer to the indigenous peoples and languages of North Africa as… Read More »“Respecting Identity: Amazigh Versus Berber”

By Steven Black Working at the intersection of anthropological subfields often involves thinking laterally, connecting parallel threads of scholarship in distinct subdisciplines. For me, these… Read More »“Transposition Across Subfields”

Above photo: Interview with Former Headmaster of Boro School, 2018. Fieldwork for Archive for Northeast Indian Languages. By Christina Wasson The United Nations declared 2019 the… Read More »“Creating Online Resources for Language Revitalization”

  By Coleman Donaldson Linguistic anthropologists pass hours transcribing and translating recordings of public and not-so-public figures from across the world. We do so, in… Read More »“Making Transcripts Public in Manding”

By Sarah Benor I teach a freshman seminar at the University of Southern California called “Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today.” Students… Read More »“Students’ open letters to Disney”

[Photo Credit: Mike Lovett/Brandeis University] by Michael Prentice In my fall course, “Language in American Life,” we explored a range of topics focusing on linguistic… Read More »“Comedy in the Archives”