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
- Desi (South Asian American) youth
- Ethnography
- Race in advertising
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Grants
- 5 Finished
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Subproject for A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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Advertising Agency: Producing Racial Imagery of Asian Americans
9/1/09 → 8/31/13
Project: Research project
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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
3 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
13 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
41 Scopus citations -
Linguistic Anthropology in 2016: Now What?
Shankar, S., Jun 2017, In: American Anthropologist. 119, 2, p. 319-332 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
Spelling materiality: The branded business of competitive spelling
Shankar, S., Jan 1 2017, Language and Materiality: Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations. Cambridge University Press, p. 87-102 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter