Publications








2021

“Family Migration to Rural Safe Haven as the World Ends.” (forthcoming) In “Utopias and collective dystopias in rural worlds: Contestation, experimentation, evasion,” edited by Madeleine Sallustio and Maïté Boullosa-Joly, special issue, Civilisations: Revue Internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines 70 (2).

“Anthropology in Entertainment Market Research: Asking and Answering Meaningful Questions amid Global Crises.” 2021. In “Designing Livable Futures: Theory, Tech, and Social Upheaval.” Cultural Anthropology. Issue edited by Lindsey Wallace, Tara Kola, and Molly Bloom.

“Language Mixing.” (with Jan David Hauck, forthcoming) 2021. In Wiley Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Edited by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, and Robin Conley Riner.

“‘Feminism Failed Me’: Women’s Conversion Narratives of Escape to Utopia.” (submitted) Feminist Anthropology.

“Linguistic Empathy among Multilingual Migrant Children in Mayapur, India.” (submitted) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.








2020

“Video Ethnography.” (with Jan David Hauck). 2020. In Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology. Edited by Sabina Perrino & Sonya Pritzker. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London.

“Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump.” (with Jan David  Hauck). 2020. In  Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. Edited by Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London.








2019

Moving Toward Utopia: Language, Empathy, and Chastity among Mobile Mothers and Children in Mayapur, West Bengal. 2019. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.









2015

“From Elision to Conversion: Guru English as Language of Enchantment.” 2015.  Texas Linguistics Forum 58: 162-173.

Curriculum Vitae