The Storm After Maria
Puerto Rican Aftermath Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Puerto Rico is a colony. The tensions encompassed by these two facts were extremely clear in the federal response to…
Author: Anna Babel
Run, Hide, Fight
On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my house when my phone buzzed. I…
The Gap that Won’t Be Filled
An Anthropolitical Critique of the “Language Gap” Is language responsible for poverty? If poor and minority parents spoke like rich white parents, would they too become rich and…
Charting New Territory
The Intersection of Language and Geography When most people think about linguistic geography, if they think of it at all, they think of dialect atlases such as the…
Linguistic and Local Peripherality: The Case of Chalmatians in Greater New Orleans
In Greater New Orleans, there is an enregistered (Agha 2003) dialect of English that sounds similar to New York City English, making it stand out within the linguistic…
Why You Should Consider Applying for the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Are you about to complete your PhD and want to do something other than become an adjunct? Or are you perhaps safely tenured but want to make a…