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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Language and Ethnicity
• Media and Publics
• Translation and Mediation
• Israel in the Middle East

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Linguistic Anthropology
• Language and Media in Transnational and Global Contexts
• Semiotic Anthropology

Affiliations

• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Linguistic Anthropology
• Linguistic Society of America
  
• Submission reviewer for the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *Graduate Appointments in Anthropology and Linguistics *Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Awards & Grants

• 2008, Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology
• 2004, Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant for Israel
• 2004, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Anthropology and Linguistics
• 2004, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Publications

• The circulation of chisme and rumor: gossip, evidentiality, and authority in the perspective of Latino labor migrants in Israel. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 2009, 19(1):117-143.
• The shifting genres of Middle Eastern registers of political communication: a review article. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (forthcoming).