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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><b>MA Program in Linguistic Anthropology</b></span></p>

<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">The vibrant, growing Northern Arizona University
Department of Anthropology is seeking students interested in an MA in
linguistic anthropology.  Located in beautiful northern Arizona, just an
hour and a half from the Grand Canyon, the faculty maintains a range of active
research programs, internationally and in the US Southwest. The department has
a diverse staff of over twenty full time faculty including four linguistic
anthropologists.  The Anthropology MA offers both theoretical and applied
options, including a unique program in applied linguistic anthropology that
features options in medical and health-related anthropology and other applied
fields. The department offers a monthly seminar series, and close cross campus
connections with the Native American Cultural Center and a range of academic
units. The department has an excellent track record for the placement of its
graduates in a wide variety of jobs and prestigious PhD programs. Due to a
recent generous legacy from Ray Madden, along with regular teaching and
research graduate assistantships, the department is also able to offer support
to many of its students. For more information about Madden scholarship, please
see: <a href="http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/SBS/Anthropology/Student_Resources/Madden_Scholars.pdf"><span class="gmail-s2">http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/SBS/Anthropology/Student_Resources/Madden_Scholars.pdf</span></a>
Application deadline for the Madden scholarship and preferred deadline for the
MA program is February 15</span><span class="gmail-s3">^{<span style="font-size:8pt">th</span>}</span><span class="gmail-s1"> 2017.</span><span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">For more information about the program please
contact Leila Monaghan at <a href="mailto:Leila.Monagan@nau.edu">Leila.Monagan@nau.edu</a>,
 Jim Wilce, <a href="mailto:Jim.Wilce@nau.edu"><span class="gmail-s2">Jim.Wilce@nau.edu</span></a>,  or Janina Fenigsen, <a href="mailto:Janina.Fenigsen@nau.edu"><span class="gmail-s2">Janina.Fenigsen@nau.edu</span></a>.</span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">For information about the  application process, please contact Kerry
Thompson, PhD, the Graduate Coordinator, <a href="mailto:Kerry.Thompson@nau.edu"><span class="gmail-s2">Kerry.Thompson@nau.edu</span></a> </span><span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><b><i>Linguistic anthropology faculty:</i></b></span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">Jim Wilce (PhD) has research interests are in
semiotics, emotion, ethnopoetics and performance, and language, power, and
medicine in Bangladesh, South Asia generally, Finland, and the United
States.  For Wilce’s publications see: <a href="https://nau.academia.edu/JamesWilce"><span class="gmail-s4">https://nau.academia.edu/JamesWilce</span></a></span><span class="gmail-s5">.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Janina Fenigsen (PhD) does research on language
policy, linguistic heritage, creole languages, health promotion, neoliberalism,
and semiotics of emotion, in Barbados and the United States. Part of this work
is an ongoing research project with Wilce looking at socialization and
transformations of human experience and subjectivity in the contexts of school
violence prevention programs in Northern Arizona. For Fenigsen’s publications
see: <a href="https://nau.academia.edu/JaninaFenigsen"><span class="gmail-s2">https://nau.academia.edu/JaninaFenigsen</span></a>.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">Leila Monaghan (PhD) works in fields including Deaf
and disability studies, the history of Plains Indian women, and the history of
linguistic anthropology.  She is particularly interested in issues of
language ideologies and the intersections between language, culture, and
history in New Zealand and the United States. See her publications at: <a href="https://nau.academia.edu/LeilaMonaghan"><span class="gmail-s2">https://nau.academia.edu/LeilaMonaghan</span></a>.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Clinton D. Humphrey (PhD) integrates fine-grained
analyses of discourse and embodied (inter)action with theories of structural
and symbolic violence to explore experiences of social suffering and chronic
illness within Miskitu communities in Nicaragua. Humphrey’s publications are
at: <a href="https://nau.academia.edu/ClintonDHumphrey"><span class="gmail-s2">https://nau.academia.edu/ClintonDHumphrey</span></a>.</span><span></span></p>

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<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Leila Monaghan, PhD</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Publisher, Elm Books</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Laramie, Wyoming</span></div></div></div></div>
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