[Linganth] CfP for Anthropology News in 2026

[Handman, Courtney]

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking articles for all four issues of the 2026 Society for Linguistic Anthropology section column of Anthropology News.

The journal is now published exclusively online. Although last year pieces had to be connected to the journal issue’s theme, that is no longer the case. So please send us your ideas for short, public-facing, and accessible essays that are tied to linguistic anthropology. Pieces can be either stories or photo essays:


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Stories—short-form exploration of an interesting topic with detail and depth, up to 1600 words. To get a better sense of the genre, you can see a recent story in the SLA column by Aidah Aljuran here<https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/learning-not-to-know-and-the-isma%CA%BFili-invisibility-of-taqiyya/>.
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Photo essays—s​ix to eight high-quality, visually compelling images + up to 750 words of introductory text. For a great example of a photo essay, see Judit Kroo’s piece from last year here<https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/once-and-future-worlds-in-fukushima-japan-postdisaster-as-emptiness-and-remainder/>.

If you have an idea that brings a linguistic anthropological perspective to bear on some topic or event of wide interest, please contact the SLA column co-editors, Siri Lamoureaux (lamoureaux at em-lyon.com<mailto:lamoureaux at em-lyon.com>) and Courtney Handman (chandman at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:chandman at austin.utexas.edu>) with a few sentences about your idea.

Anthropology News is able to publish only one SLA piece per issue, and the deadline for initial editorial review is December 1, 2025. Depending on the response, we can take proposals for several issues at once, with anticipated 2026 publication dates of March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31.

We encourage submissions from both students and faculty who are (or who could become) members of the AAA and SLA. We provide strong editorial support as well as quick turn-around from submission to publication. Reach out to us to see if your idea for a story or photo essay might be a good fit.

Thanks for your consideration!
-Siri and Courtney





Courtney Handman

Associate Professor | Dept. of Anthropology | The University of Texas at Austin

2201 Speedway, Stop C3200 | Austin, TX 78712



New book: Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea<https://www.ucpress.edu/books/circulations/paper>



The University of Texas at Austin resides on what were historically the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples who were dispossessed of their homelands. I recognize and value the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and other American Indian and Indigenous peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of the lands now known as Texas.

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