[Linganth] MA in Linguistic Anthropology at Northern Arizona University

[Leila Monaghan]

*MA Program in Linguistic Anthropology*



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:
http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/SBS/Anthropology/Student_Resources/Madden_Scholars.pdf
Application deadline for our MA program and for the Madden scholarship is
February 15th 2017.



For more information about the program and application process, please
contact Dr. Kerry Thompson, the Graduate Coordinator, Kerry.Thompson at nau.edu,
Dr. Jim Wilce, Jim.Wilce at nau.edu, Dr. Janina Fenigsen,
Janina.Fenigsen at nau.edu, or Dr. Leila Monaghan, Leila.Monaghan at nau.edu.



*Linguistic anthropology faculty:*

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: *https://nau.academia.edu/JamesWilce
<https://nau.academia.edu/JamesWilce>.*

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: https://nau.academia.edu/JaninaFenigsen.



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:
https://nau.academia.edu/LeilaMonaghan.



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:
https://nau.academia.edu/ClintonDHumphrey.

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Leila Monaghan, PhD
Northern Arizona University
Department of Anthropology
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