Robin Conley
M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2007
B.A. Anthropology and Linguistics, NYU, 2002
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
rhconley@ucla.edu
Subfield
Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interests
Language and institutions; language and the law; juries; capital punishment; Texas.
Publications
2008. "At the time she was a man": The temporal dimension of identity construction. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1):1-20.
(with John M. Conley) Forthcoming. Stories from the jury room: How jurors use narrative to process evidence. Studies in Law, Politics and Society.
Grants and Awards
2009 National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship
2009 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2009 Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant
2008 UCLA Anthropology Research Fellowship
2007 UCLA Anthropology Research Fellowship
2006 Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2005 Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UCLA
2005 Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2004 Pauley Fellowship, UCLA
2002 Edward Sapir Award for Outstanding Student in
Lingustic Anthropology, NYU
2002 Founders Day Award, NYU
1998 Trustees' Fellow, NYU
Advisors
Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, Marjorie Goodwin, John Heritage, Justin Richland (UCI)
Conference Presentations
2009 "Future Danger: Temporality and Person Construction in Texas Death Penalty Trials." Bi-annual conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization. Santa Barbara, CA.
2009 “Future Danger: The Construction of Dangerous Subjects in Texas Death
Penalty Trials.” Symposium about Language and Society—Austin. Austin, TX.
2008 “Stories from the Jury Room: How Jurors Use Narrative to Process
Evidence.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.
2008 “How Capital Jurors Interpret the Future Danger Issue” and “Stories from the Jury Room: How Jurors Use Narrative to Process Evidence.” Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association. Montreal, Canada.
2006. The Ethnographic Illusion of the Coherent Self. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA.
2005. 'Don't You Wish You Knew the Real Story': A Discourse Analysis of Actual Jury Deliberations. Annual Meeting of the International Linguistics Association. New York, NY.
2005. 'Don't You Wish You Knew the Real Story': A Discourse Analytic Approach to Studying Jury Deliberations. 11th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization. Santa Barbara, CA.
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