Linguistic Anthropology
Source: https://anthro.ucla.edu/subfields/linguistic-anthropology/ Parent: https://anthro.ucla.edu/
[## H. Samy Alim
Professor and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/h-samy-alim/)
Research Interests:
Hip Hop Culture(s) and Hip Hop Linguistics; The language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally; Language, power, and identities; Language, race, racism and racialization; Black Language and linguistics; Global youth cultures; Language, culture, and education; Culturally sustaining pedagogies; U.S., Spain, South Africa.
Subfield:
Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: halim@ucla.edu \ Office: 318F Haines Hall \
[## Erin Debenport
Associate Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/erin-debenport/)
Research Interests:
Technologies of language circulation; secrecy; indigeneity; semiotics; critical language documentation; language ideologies; Kiowa-Tanoan languages.
Subfield:
Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: erindebenport@ucla.edu \ Office: 318B Haines Hall \
Distinguished Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/paul-v-kroskrity/)
Research Interests:
Language and culture; language contact, identity, and ideologies; anthropology and verbal art; ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California
Subfield:
Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: paulvk@ucla.edu \ Office: 329A Haines Hall \
Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/norma-mendoza-denton/)
Research Interests:
Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology
Subfield:
Linguistic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: nmd@anthro.ucla.edu \ Office: 382 Haines Hall \
Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/zion-ariana-mengesha/)
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, African American English, California dialectology, ethnography, community-based participatory research, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, large language models
Subfield:
Lingustic Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: zmengesh@ucla.edu \