Jacqueline Messing

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology - University of South Florida
Office: 136 Social Sciences
Phone: (813) 974-0807 Email: jmessing@cas.usf.edu
On research leave 2008-09

Research Interests

Linguistic anthropology; Sociolinguistics; Sociocultural anthropology; Language and power; Ethnography of communication; Applied linguistics; Language shift and revitalization of indigenous languages; Bilingualism/ multilingualism; Linguistic ideology; Identity; Discourse and conversational analysis; Descriptive linguistics; Ethnographic methods (linguistic and cultural); Language and gender; Narrative and social memory; Anthropology and education; Nahuatl studies; Modernity and colonial Tlaxcala; Colonial and Post-colonial indigenous identity; Mexico; U.S. Latinos; Spanish in the U.S.; Language and transnationalism.

Education

Ph.D. 2003   Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
M A. 1995    Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
B.A. 1990    University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Courses (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Introduction to Anthropology
Language and Culture
Ethnographic Discourse Analysis
Anthropology of Schooling
Language and Racism