MIC Related Research | Dr. Bambi B. Schieffelin

Bambi B. Schieffelin is Collegiate Professor and Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She has carried out ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea and in Queens, New York with Haitian families. Her research interests include language socialization, language ideologies and language change, translation, missionization, and computer mediated communication. She is the author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children (1990), and co-editor of several volumes, including Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (1998), Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations (2007, and The Handbook of Language Socialization (2012).  She has held Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.