PUBLICATIONS

2021

Disreputable Spaniards versus middle-class Limeños: The coloniality of speech in Lima, Peru. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31 (1): 43-63.

2021

Performing whiteness, troubling blackness: Afropolitanism and the visual politics of black bodies in YouTube videos. Signs and Society, 9 (2): 234-262.

2020

The role of Islam, Ajami writings, and educational reform in Selmaana Kantè’s N’ko. African Studies Review, 63 (3): 462-486 [Winner, 2021 Prize for Best Article Published in the ASR]

2020

Dually authenticated and doubly modern: Institutionalizing jach maaya in the Yucatan today. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 30 (3), 326-352.

2019

Linguistic and civic refinement in the N’ko movement of Manding-speaking West Africa. Signs and Society, 7 (2): 156-185

2018

Citizenship as communicative effect. Signs and Society, 6 (3): 531-57.

2018

Not Citizens of a Classical Mediterranean: Muslim Youth from Marseille Elude a Linguistic Gentrification by the French State. Signs and Society, 6 (2): 435-474.

2017

Scaling democracy: Participation and resource extraction in Latin America. Perspectives on Politics, 15 (3): 678-696.

2017

Taking down Barcelona in Kathmandu: Linguistic futures ins a student movement. Signs and Society, 5 (1): 69-95.

2017

Kichwa or Quichua? Competing Alphabets, Political Histories, and Complicated Reading in Indigenous Languages. Comparative Education Review, 62 (1): 103–124.

2017

Courting legitimacy: Enregistering legal reasoning among US criminal trial jurors. Signs and Society, 5 (1): 1-34.

2017

Extractivismo unearthed: a genealogy of a radical discourse. Cultural Studies, 31 (2/3): 277-306.

2017

The Topology of Endangered Languages. Signs and Society, 5 (1): 96–123.

2016

Dreams in Cybernetic Fugue: Cold War Technoscience, the Intelligentsia, & the Birth of Soviet Mathematical Economics. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 46 (5): 633-668.

2016

Manding reflexive verb constructions and registers in Jula of Burkina Faso. Mandenkan, 56: 3-28.

2015

Taxonomy and taboo: The (meta)pragmatic sources of semantic abstraction in avoidance registers. Journal of Lingusitic Antrhropology, 25 (1): 43-65.

2015

Putting the fourth crow in the sky: Using narrative to understand the experiences of one non-heritage learner of an endangered language. Linguistics & Education, 30: 125-136.

2015

The social life of orthography development. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 30 (2): 1-12

2014

Conflict and commensuration: Contested market making in India’s private real estate development sector. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, 38(1): 60-79.

2014

The Dialectal Tribe and the Doctrine of Continuity. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 56: 381–418.

2013

Constructing prestige and elaborating the ‘professional’: Elite residential complexes in the National Capital Region, India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 47 (2): 271-302.

2013

Communicative event chains in an ethnography of Paraguayan language policy. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 219: 67-99.

2013

Reality Television and the metapragmatics of racism. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 23 (1): 65-81.

2013

Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico. Duke University Press

2013

Revisiting history in language policy: The case of medium of instruction in Nepal. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 28 (1): 61-80.

2012

Tupac in their veins: Hip-Hop Alteño and the semiotics of urban indigeneity. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies, 16: 79-96.

2012

The enregisterment of Colla in a Bolivian (Camba) comedy. Social Text, 113, 30 (4): 81-102.

2012

Recontextualizing ideologies about social difference in New York Spanish-language newspaper advertising. Language and Communication, 32 (4): 312-328.

2012

Metadiscursive regime and register formation on Aymara radio. Language and Communication, 32 (2): 102-113.

2012

'We had lighter tongues': Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood in the South Carolina lowcountry. Language and Communication, 32 (2): 147-159.

2012

Language and Publics in Stateless Nations. Special issue, Language and Communication, vol. 32, no. 2.

2012

Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. University of California Press. [Winner, 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize]

2012

Ideologies of descent in linguistics and law. Language and Communication, 32 (2): 137-146.

2012

Isma’ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community. University of North Carolina Press. [Winner, 2013 Center for the Study of Citizenship Award]

2011

Orthographic Policy and Planning in Sénégal/Senegaal: The Détournement of Orthographic Stereotypes. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 26 (1): 23-56.

2011

Name taboos and rigid performativity. Anthropological Quarterly, 84 (1): 141-164.

2011

Introduction: Beyond bad words. Anthropological Quarterly, 84 (1): 5-14.

2011

The Unmentionable: Verbal Taboo and the Moral Life of Language. Special Issue, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 1.

2010

Mediating Bhojpuriya: Migration, circulation, and Bhojpuri cinema. South Asian Popular Culture, 8 (3): 231-244.

2010

Talking language to Whitefellas. History of Anthropology Newsletter, 37 (1): 3-18.

2010

Intellectual property and cultural appropriation. Reviews in Anthropology, 39 (3): 201-228.

2010

The Book of Mammon. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

2009

Communicative commodity forms: Meaning-making in World of Warcraft. Language, Meaning and Society, 2: 8-32.

2009

Indigenous language literacies of the Northwest Amazon, Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 24 (1): 35-59.

2008

The mass-mediated chronotope, radical counterpublics, and dialect in 1970s Norway: The case of Vømmøl Spellmanslag. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (2): 290-301.

2007

Conspicuously past: Distressed discourse and diagrammatic embedding in a Tibetan represented speech style. Language and Communication, 27 (3): 258-271.

2007

Desire, youth and realism in Tamil cinema. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 17 (1): 77-104.

2007

Cross-chronotope alignment in Senegalese oral narrative. Language and Communication, 27 (3): 227-244.

2007

Language, Identity and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian. Lawrence Erlbaum

2007

Temporalities in Text. Special issue, Language and Communication, vol. 27, no. 3.

2006

What to do with "I don't know": Elicitation in ethnographic and survey interviews. Qualitative Sociology, 29 (1): 87-102.

2006

Disciplinary theatrics: Public reprimand and the textual performance of affect at Sera monastery, India. Language and Communication, 26 (1): 15-33.

2006

Other Cuzcos: Replicated theaters of Inka Power. In: Archaeology of Performance, pp. 223-260. T. Inomata and L Coben, eds. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

2005

Appropriation of African American slang by Asian American Youth. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 9 (4): 509-532.

2005

Denotational textuality and demeanor indexicality in Tibetan Buddhist debate. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 15 (2): 171-193.

2003

Citizens of towns, citizens of nations: The knowing of history in Mexico. Critique of Anthropology, 23 (2).

2002

Is what you see all you get? Recognizing meaning in Archaeology. Journal of Social Archaeology, 2 (1): 37-52.

2002

Are you losing your culture?: Poetics, Indexicality and Asian American Identity. Discourse Studies, 4 (2): 183-189.

2002

Intimate hierarchies and Qur'anic saliva (Tefli): Textuality in a Senegalese Ethnomedical Encounter. Journal of Linguistics Anthropology, 12 (2): 225-259.