H. Samy Alim is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Founding Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (2010). He is co-editor of Raciolinguistics (OUP 2016), co-author of Articulate While Black (OUP 2012), and author of Roc the Mic Right (2006) and You Know My Steez (2004).
Angela Reyes is Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and Doctoral Faculty in the Program in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is author of Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian (2007), co-editor of Beyond Yellow English (OUP 2009), and co-author of Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event (2015).
Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2013-15) and the editor of Regimes of Language (2000) and Telling Stories in the Face of Danger (2012), co-editor of Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (OUP 1998), and author of Language, History, and Identity (1993).
H. Samy Alim is the UCLA David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, the Founding Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language, and editor of the Oxford Studies in Language and Race. His recent books include Articulate While Black (Oxford, 2012) and Raciolinguistics (Oxford, 2016).
Rusty Barrett is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. He is author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures (Oxford, 2017). With Kira Hall, he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality.
Lauren Mason Carris is Director of Learning Experience at Western Governors University. Her research explores the complex intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and identity. She applies critical discourse analysis to everyday interaction, media, and performance to better understand the dynamic, co-constructed nature of processes of identification.
Elaine Chun is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. Her research examines practices and ideologies of language, race, gender, and sexuality within multiethnic communities and across U.S. public space.
Brianna R. Cornelius is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina. She is currently completing her doctoral research which analyzes the relationship between language and identity at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race. Her research interests include language, identity, and power as they impact underrepresented communities.
Hilary Parsons Dick is an Associate Professor of International Studies and the Steinbrucker '42 Endowed Chair at Arcadia University. In 2016, she held a Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellowship, which supported completion of her first book, Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants (University of Texas Press).
Mariam Durrani is an assistant professor of anthropology at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on contemporary engagements with the racialized and gendered Muslim figure as an axis for questions of cultural difference, politics, and empire-making. To do this, she draws on critical engagements with semiotic anthropology, critical theory, and multimodality.
Nelson Flores is Associate Professor of educational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. His research examines the educational experiences of Latinx students in US schools with attention to issues of race, language, policy, and practice.
Monica Heller is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Editor of the Journal of Sociolinguistics and a past President of the American Anthropological Association. Her work has been published in such journals as Language in Society, Langage et Société, Anthropologica and Anthropologie et Société.
Awad Ibrahim is Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada. He publishes widely in cultural studies, applied linguistics, Black immigration, and ethnography. His latest book is, Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black (Myers, 2020).
Kamran Khan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and visiting scholar at King's College London, where he co-leads a British Academy project about security and sociolinguistics. His research interests include race, citizenship, security and Islamophobia.
Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at UCLA. His works include Language, History, and Identity (1993), Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (1998, with B. Schieffelin and K. Woolard), Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities (2000), and Engaging Native American Publics (2017, with B. Meek).
Jooyoung Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is author or Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central (2016, University of Chicago Press) and is writing a new book about gunshot survivors in Philadelphia.
Adrienne Lo is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo. She is the co-editor of Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (2009) and South Korea's Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad (2014).
Sinfree Makoni teaches in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University and is Extraordinary Professor at North Western University in South Africa. His most recent book is Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South with Alastair Pennycook (Routledge 2019).
Barbra A. Meek, a Comanche citizen and professionally trained linguist and anthropologist, is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on processes of language revitalization, socialization and ethnoracialization. Her most recent publication is the article, "Language Endangerment in Childhood," (2019, Annual Review of Anthropology).
Bonnie McElhinny is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, and Principal of New College at the University of Toronto. Her books include Words, Worlds and Material Girls, Filipinos in Canada (edited with Roland Coloma, Ethel Tungohan, J.P.Catungal and Lisa Davidson) and Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History (with Monica Heller).
Marcyliena Morgan is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and Executive Director of the Hiphop Archive. Her books include Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (Cambridge, 2002) and The Real Hiphop (Duke, 2009).
Sabina Perrino's research explores racialized language; intimacy in interaction; language revitalization; narrative practices; language use in ethnomedical encounters and political discourse. She co-edited eight Special Issues for journals including Language in Society, Language & Communication, Narrative Inquiry, Multilingua and Applied Linguistics. Her forthcoming book is entitled Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy.
Angela Reyes is Professor of English at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event (Routledge, 2015), Beyond Yellow English (Oxford, 2009), and Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007).
Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He is author of Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge).
Cristine Gorski Severo is Associate Professor in the Department of Portuguese at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil). Her research includes comparative analysis of primary sources in Portuguese and Spanish related to colonization and resistance.
Krystal A. Smalls is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, affiliated with African American Studies and the Center for African Studies, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examining race and semiotics in the African Diaspora has appeared in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and Language & Communication.
Geneva Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Core Faculty, African Studies Center at Michigan State University. Her most recent books include Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans (Routledge, 2006) and Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. (Oxford, 2012).
Arthur K. Spears is Presidential Professor Emeritus at The City University of New York and faculty at The Graduate Center and The City College. He is founding editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology, editor of Race and Ideology (Wayne State, 1999) and co-editor of Black Linguistics (Routledge, 2003), among other books.
Bonnie Urciuoli (Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Hamilton College) has analyzed experiences and discourses of race, class, language, and higher education in Exposing Prejudice, the edited volume The Experience of Neoliberal Education, and articles in American Ethnologist, Language and Communication, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Signs and Society.
Quentin E. Williams is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at the University of the Western Cape. He is co-editor of Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press, 2019).
Dr. Kristina Wirtz is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist and chair of the Department of Spanish at Western Michigan University. Her published books are: Ritual, Discourse and Community in Cuban Santería, and Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History (2015 Edward Sapir Book Prize winner).
