Grants per year
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Research Interests
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, race & ethnicity, diaspora and migration, youth, media, advertising, semiotics, South Asian diaspora, Asian diasporas, United States. Joint appointment with Asian American Studies.
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, New York University
… → 2003
Anthropology, MA, New York University
… → 1998
Anthropology, BA, Wesleyan University
… → 1994
Research interests keywords
- Desi (South Asian American) youth
- Ethnography
- Race in advertising
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Grants
- 6 Finished
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Green, White, and Blue: Irish American cultural production and racial security on Chicago’s Southside
Shankar, S. (PD/PI)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
1/1/24 → 12/31/24
Project: Research project
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Policing Los Angeles Muslims in the National Security State: Counterterror, Science, and Secularism in the War on Terror
Shankar, S. (PD/PI)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
9/1/17 → 8/31/18
Project: Research project
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Fulbright-Hays: Jessica Pouchet
Shankar, S. (Subproject PI)
10/1/14 → 3/31/16
Project: Research project
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A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
Shankar, S. (PD/PI)
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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Subproject for A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
Shankar, S. (PD/PI)
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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Language and Race: Settler Colonial Consequences and Epistemic Disruptions
Shankar, S., Oct 23 2023, In: Annual Review of Anthropology. 52, p. 381-397 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
Speaking like a Model Minority: “FOB” Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley (2008)
Shankar, S., Jan 1 2022, Anthropological Theory: For the Twenty-First Century a Critical Approach. University of Toronto Press, p. 367-373 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Nothing Sells like Whiteness: Race, Ontology, and American Advertising
Shankar, S., Mar 1 2020, In: American Anthropologist. 122, 1, p. 112-119 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
18 Scopus citations -
Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal
Takaragawa, S., Smith, T. L., Hennessy, K., Alvarez Astacio, P., Chio, J., Nye, C. & Shankar, S., May 2019, In: American Anthropologist. 121, 2, p. 517-524 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
36 Scopus citations -
Language and materiality: Ethnographic and theoretical explorations
Cavanaugh, J. R. & Shankar, S., Jan 1 2017, Cambridge University Press. 303 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
69 Scopus citations