Grants per year
Personal profile
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 2009 2018
- 5 Finished
Policing Los Angeles Muslims in the National Security State: Counterterror, Science, and Secularism in the War on Terror
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
9/1/17 → 8/31/18
Project: Research project
national security
terrorism
Muslim
science
law enforcement
Subproject for A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
socialization
linguistics
language
parents
prime time
A Cultural and Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Youth Language Socialization
9/1/13 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
socialization
linguistics
language
parents
prime time
Advertising Agency: Producing Racial Imagery of Asian Americans
9/1/09 → 8/31/13
Project: Research project
Research Output 2004 2019
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
anthropology
Anthropology
Habitus
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
ontology
advertising medium
multicultural society
ethnicity
Whiteness
12
Citations
(Scopus)
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
language
aesthetics
semiotics
mediatization
sociolinguistics
1
Citation
(Scopus)
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
anthropology
linguistics
racism
language
social justice
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
language
orthography
social media
broadcast
semiotics