Asia
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February 2025: Language, Discourse, and Media Literacy: Building Resilience in the Age of Misinformation
This month’s Spotlight was contributed by Alireza Salhi-Nejad. He is a multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this, he was involved in research, teaching, and executive roles at the University of Tehran for over nine years. Mass media is a cornerstone of…
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November 2024: Language as a Matter of Life and Death
This month’s Spotlight was contributed by Gerald Roche. He is a political anthropologist based at La Trobe University, Australia, and his work focuses on the intersections of language and power. He previously edited the Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization, and he has recently published articles in Language in Society, State Crime Journal, and Emancipations: A…
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Alireza Salehi-Nejad
Affiliation: University of Technology Sydney, Australia Email: [email protected] Bio: I am a multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this, I was involved in research, teaching, and executive roles at the University of Tehran for over nine years. Currently, I am a…
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Zubair Torwali
Researcher, Writer and Minority Language Activist Executive Director, Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi Swat, Pakistan [email protected] Hailing from Bahrain, Swat — the Switzerland of Pakistan — I am a researcher, author, protector of minority languages; social, cultural, civil society and human-rights activist; writer, columnist, blogger, journalist, voice of the unheard; and a powerful voice for the rights…
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Laurence Simon
Heller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts, USA [email protected] I am a cultural geographer at the Heller School at Brandeis where I serve as the Professor of International Development and Director of the Center for Global Development and Sustainability. I’ve worked in many settings around the world including Central America, Southern…
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Toni Shapiro-Phim
Associate Professor, Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts [email protected] Read Toni’s April 2020 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I’m a cultural anthropologist and dance ethnologist whose work has focused on the relationship between the arts and migration, violence (including war and genocide) and other oppressions. I have spent time with artists…
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Mingyi Li
PhD student, Language and Literacies Education Fellow Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Read Mingyi’s November 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a first-year PhD student in the Language and Literacies Education program at OISE/UofT. During my MA degree at OISE, I explored how Western influence…
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Laura Kunreuther
Associate Professor and Director of Anthropology Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York [email protected] Read Laura’s September 2021 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. My research and teaching center on themes such as sound, voice, translation/interpretation, technology and media, social suffering, affect, cultural memory, and urban public culture. My first book, “Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in…
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Devina Krishna
Academic and linguist India [email protected] I work as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Patna Women’s College, India. I earned a PhD in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, specializing in Phonetics and Phonology. My main research interests revolve around phonetics, phonology, and language documentation. I presented my research on Lexical…
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Alexandra Grey
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law Sydney, Australia [email protected] Read Alex’s July 2021 and May 2020 Spotlights on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a lecturer and researcher with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney. I combine doctrinal law and ethnographic social sciences methods to examine how legal regimes work in…
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Rebecca Ruth Gould
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics SOAS University of London United Kingdom [email protected] I am a scholar, writer and translator currently based at SOAS University of London, working on the intersections of literary, legal and political theory. Much of my research focuses on the Middle East and the Muslim regions of the former…
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Sara de Jong
Professor in Politics University of York United Kingdom [email protected] Read Sara’s February 2020 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York. I have held (visiting) fellowships at the University of Vienna (EU FP7 Marie Curie Fellowship), University of Goettingen, the International Institute of Social…
