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Shalini Shankar

  • 254 Citations
20042019

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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

Policing Los Angeles Muslims in the National Security State: Counterterror, Science, and Secularism in the War on Terror

Shankar, S.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

9/1/17 → 8/31/18

Project: Research project

    • Fulbright-Hays: Jessica Pouchet

    Shankar, S.

    Department of Education

    10/1/14 → 3/31/16

    Project: Research project

    A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization

    Shankar, S.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/13 → 8/31/17

    Project: Research project

    • Subproject for A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization

    Shankar, S.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/13 → 8/31/17

    Project: Research project

    • Advertising Agency: Producing Racial Imagery of Asian Americans

    Shankar, S.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/09 → 8/31/13

    Project: Research project

    Research Output

    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

    Nothing Sells like Whiteness: Race, Ontology, and American Advertising

    Shankar, S., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : American Anthropologist.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    Open Access

    • 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

    • 12 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

    • 1 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