Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein
B.A., Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Chicago (2005)
M.A., Anthropology, UCLA (2009)
Office: Haines 360
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
jenali@ucla.edu
Subfield
Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interests
language ideologies; language shift and revitalization; language socialization; indigenous communities in Mexico; food, gender, and authenticity; gendering of labor and gendering of language; Oaxaca
Grants and Awards
2009-2010 Graduate Research Mentorship, UCLA
2009 UCLA Department of Anthropology Travel Grant
2008, 2009 Chancellor's Prize, UCLA
2008 UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant
2008 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2007 William O. Bright Award
2005 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society
2003 Foreign Language Acquisition Grant, University of Chicago
2003 Richter Grant for Independent Research, University of Chicago
Conference Presentations
2009 “Porque es la costumbre de aquí”: Ideologies of Food, Language, and Identity
Invited Lecture, California State University at Fullerton Anthropology Symposium
2008 “’I can’t eat with a spoon,’ they said”: Ideologies of Food, Language, and Identity
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
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