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
William Leap August 13, 2018 William Leap is retiring after being a professor of anthropology at American University for 46 years. Ilana Gershon asks him… Read More »William Leap’s Reflections upon Retirement
Ilana Gershon and Zizi Papacharissi August 13, 2018 Linguistic anthropologists sometimes think about applying for jobs in communication departments, which have their own sets of… Read More »Applying for Jobs in Communication Departments
Ask an Editor July 30, 2018 Ilana Gershon, a contributing editor for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, asked seven editors for their insights on questions that… Read More »Review Time
SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations The submission deadline is October 1, 2018. Created and awarded for the first time by… Read More »Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is… Read More »Journal of Linguistic Anthropology seeking Editor-in-Chief
May 2, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors of books commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago,… Read More »Editors Edit
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Susan Hill April 2, 2018 In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary shortlisted the noun-turned-verb-turned-gerund “adulting” for its Word of the Year designation. Oxford defined adulting as “the… Read More »#Adulting and the Disordered State of American Adulthood
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Alexandra Jaffe March 7, 2018 Kit Woolard received the 2017 Edward Sapir Book Prize for Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority… Read More »Reflections on Kit Woolard’s Singular and Plural
Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the wider professional community of linguistic… Read More »SLA Annual Undergraduate Student Essay Contest 2018
The inaugural SLA spring meeting is less than two weeks away. To read about the meeting, information for presenters, and the schedule of presentations, please… Read More »SLA Spring Meeting Information
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces The 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Deadline: Wednesday March 21, 2018 The Society for Linguistic… Read More »2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition
Was #MeToo washed away in baptismal waters? Jon Bialecki January 26, 2018 There is a clip that has been circulating through both conventional broadcast and cable news… Read More »The Highpoint Church Standing Ovation
Lessons from Charlottesville Since the violent events that took place in Charlottesville, VA, this past August, when a white supremacist rally led to the killing… Read More »AN column: “Free Speech” in Times of Conflict by Lise M. Dobrin and Eve Danziger
Puerto Rican Aftermath Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Puerto Rico is a colony. The tensions encompassed by these two facts were extremely clear in the… Read More »AN column: The Storm after Maria by Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Please see the following for an end-of-year index of Adam Hodges’s Trumped Up Words columns on the Anthropology News website. Adam assures us there are more… Read More »Adam Hodges’s 2017 “Trumped Up Words” columns