Curriculum Vitae

JAMES COLLINS

360 Partridge Street Department of Anthropology

Albany, NY 12208 University at Albany

518/458-8043 State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222

518/442-4708

Last revised: February 2005 collins@cnsunix.albany.edu

Education [Earned Degrees]

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1983

Linguistics

M.A. University of Arizona, 1978

Anthropology

B.A. University of Chicago, 1974

Public Affairs (Special Honors)

Honors and Awards

• Academy Fellow, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Spring 2004

• External Fellow, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers

University, 1993-94

• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, 1988-89

• Regents Fellowship, University of California, 1983

• University Honor Scholar, University of Chicago, 1972-74

Dissertation

A Linguistic Perspective on Minority Education: Discourse Analysis and Early Literacy.

University of California, Berkeley. Charles J. Fillmore, Dissertation Chair.

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Academic Employment (1983 through present)

Professor Departments of Anthropology (CAS) and Reading (SOE),

8/98-Present State University of New York at Albany

Associate Professor

1/90-8/98

Associate Professor Department of Anthropology and Program in Linguistics,

7/89-12/89 Temple University, Philadelphia

Assistant Professor

9/83-6/89

Visiting Academic Fellow School of Education, Kings College/London

1/98-6/98

Adjunct Faculty Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research,

1/95-5/95 New York City

Visiting Lecturer Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture and

1/94-5/94 Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ

Scholarly Activity

Publications1

Books

2003 Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity. New York: Cambridge University

Press, “Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language” Series.

1998 Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American

Responses. New York: Routledge.

Special Issues of Journals (Editor & Co-Editor)

1 RJ = refereed journal, B-ER = book with external reviews, IC = invited chapter, RWP =

refereed working papers, RA = refereed abstract, NR = not refereed.

2005 Multilingualism and Diasporic Populations: Spatializing Practices, Institutional

Processes, and Social Hierarchies. Language & Communication (vol 25, Spring 2005)

(Co-edited with Stef Slembrouck) (RJ)

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2003 Ethnography, Discourse, and Hegemony. Pragmatics 13.1 (March 2003) (Co-edited with

Jan Blommaert, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck, and Jef Verschueren) (RJ)

2001 Discourse and Critique. Critique of Anthropology 21.1 (Winter 2001) ((Co-edited with

Jan Blommaert, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck, and Jef Verschueren))

(RJ)

1999 Culture, Dream, and Political Economy: Higher Education and Late Capitalism.

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12.3 (May/June 1999) (Co-

edited with Fiona Thompson and John Calagione) (RJ)

1993 Language, Nationalism, and Political Economy. Critique of Anthropology, 13.2 (Spring

1993) (Editor) (RJ)

Articles in Journals and Books

2004a “Language” in Thomas Biolsi (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of American

Indians (pp. 490-505) Oxford: Blackwell. (IC)

2004b “Foreword” to Rebecca Rogers (ed.) An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in

Education. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. (IC)

2003a Reclaiming tradition, remaking community.” In Richard Blot (ed.) Language and Social

Identity (pp.225-242). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

2003a “The reading wars in situ,” in Jan Blommaert, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben

Rampton, Stef Slembrouck, & Jef Verschueren (eds) Ethnography, Discourse, and

Hegemony. Special issue of Pragmatics. 13.1: 85-100. (RJ)

2003b “Introduction,” coauthored with Blommaert et al., Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton,

Stef Slembrouck, & Jef Verschueren (eds) Ethnography, Discourse, and Hegemony.

Special issue of Pragmatics. 13.1: 1-10. (RJ)

2002 “Language, identity, and learning in the era of “expert-guided systems” In Stanton

Wortham & Betsy Rymes (eds.) Linguistic Anthropology of Education (pp. 31-60).

Westport, CT: Praeger. (B-ER)

2001a “Selling the market: Educational standards, discourse, and social inequality”

In Jan Blommaert, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck, & Jef

Verschueren (eds) Discourse and Critique. Special issue of Critique of Anthropology 21.2

(2001): 143-163. (RJ)

2001b “Introduction” Co-authored with Blommaert et al., Discourse and Critique. Special issue

on Critique of Anthropology 21.1 (2001): 5-12. (RJ)

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2000 "Bernstein, Bourdieu, and the new literacy studies." In Gemma Moss & Michael Erben

(eds) Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Identity: Themes from the Work of Basil Bernstein.

Special issue of Linguistics & Education 11.3 (2000): 65-78. (RJ)

1999a "The ebonics controversy in context: Literacies, subjectivities and language ideologies

in the United States." In Jan Blommaert (ed) Language-Ideological Debates: Studies in

Linguistic Historiography (pp. 201-233). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (B-ER)

1999b "Introduction" In James Collins, John Calagione, & Fiona Thompson (eds.) Culture,

Dream and Political Economy: Higher Education and Late Capitalism, Special issue of

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Volume 12.3 (June, 1999): 227-

239. (NR)

1999c "The culture wars and shifts in linguistic capital: For combining political economy

and cultural analysis." In James Collins, John Calagione, and Fiona Thompson (eds),

Culture, Dream and political economy: Higher Education and Late Capitalism, Special

issue of International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Volume 12.3 (June,

1999):269-286. (NR)

1998a “Language, subjectivity, and social dynamics in the writings of Pierre Bourdieu.”

American Literary History, 10.4 (Winter, 1998): 725-732. (IC/NR)

1998b "Our ideologies and theirs". In B. Schieffelin, K. Woolard and P. Kroskrity (eds)

Language Ideologies. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 156-170. (B-ER).

1998c James Collins & Fiona Thompson, "Family, school and cultural capital." In Education:

The Complete Encyclopedia on CD-ROM [CD-ROM]. Oxford: Elsevier Science. [revision

of Collins & Thompson 1994a] (IC)

1997 James Collins & Fiona Thompson, "Family, school and cultural capital." In L. Saha (ed)

The International Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education Oxford: Elsevier Science.

[revision of Collins & Thompson 1994a] (IC)

1996 "Socialization to text: Structure and contradiction in schooled literacy." In M.

Silverstein and G. Urban (eds) Natural Histories of Discourse (pp. 203-228). Chicago:

University of Chicago Press. (B-ER)

1995a "Literacy and literacies." Annual Review of Anthropology 24:75-93. (IC)

1995b Ellen Bigler & James Collins, Dangerous Discourses: The Politics of Multiculturalism

in Community and Classroom. Technical Report, No. 7.4, National Research Center for

Literature Teaching and Learning. State University of New York at Albany. (RWP)

1994a James Collins & Fiona Thompson, "Family, school and cultural capital." In T. Husen

and T.N. Postlethwaite (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Education, Vol 4, 2nd Ed

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(pp. 2267-72). Oxford: Elsevier Science. (IC)

1994b Deborah Brandau & James Collins, "Texts, social relations, and work-based skepticism

about schooling: An ethnographic analysis", Anthropology and Education Quarterly

25.2:118-137. (RJ)

1993a "Determination and contradiction: An appreciation and critique of the work of Pierre

Bourdieu on language and education." In C. Calhoun, E. LiPuma, and M. Postone (eds)

Bourdieu: A Critical Reader (pp. 116-138). New York: Polity Press. (B-ER)

1993b "The troubled text: History and language in basic writing." In P. Freebody and A.

Welch (eds) Knowledge, Culture, and Power: International Perspectives on Literacy as

Policy and Practice (pp.162-186). London: Falmer Press, & Pittsburgh: University of

Pittsburgh Press. (IC)

1992a "Our ideologies and theirs." Pragmatics 2.3:405-416. (RJ)

1992b Deborah Brandau & James Collins, Schooling, Literature, and Work in a Rural

Mountain Community. Technical Report No. 7.1, National Research Center for Literature

Teaching and Learning. State University of New York at Albany. (RWP)

1991 "Hegemonic practice: Literacy and standard language in public education." In C.

Mitchell and K. Weiler (eds) Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other

(pp.119-254). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey. [reprint of 1989b] (IC)

1989a "Nasalization, lengthening, and phonological rhyme in Tolowa." International Journal

of American Linguistics 55.3: 326-340. (RJ)

1989b "Hegemonic practice: Literacy and standard language in public education." Journal

of Education 171.2: 9-35. [revision of 1988b] (NR)

1988a "Language and class in minority education." Anthropology and Education Quarterly

19.4:299-326. (RJ)

1988b Hegemonic Practice: Literacy and Standard Language in Public Education. Working

Paper No. 21, Center for Psychosocial Studies. Chicago. (RWP)

1987a "Reported speech in Navajo myth narratives." In J. Verschueren (ed) Linguistic

Action: Some empirical-conceptual studies (pp.67-97). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. (IC)

1987b "Using discourse analysis to understand access to knowledge." In D. Bloome (ed)

Literacy and Schooling (pp.69-84). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. (IC)

1987c "Conversation and knowledge in bureaucratic settings." Discourse Processes 10.4:

303-319. (RJ)

1986a "Differential treatment in reading instruction." In J. Cook-Gumperz (ed) The Social

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Construction of Literacy (pp.117-137). London: Cambridge University Press. (B-ER)

1986b James Collins & Sarah Michaels, "Speaking and writing: Discourse strategies and the

acquisition of literacy." In J. Cook-Gumperz (ed) The Social Construction of Literacy (pp.

207-222). London: Cambridge University Press. [major revision of Collins & Michaels

1980] (B-ER)

1985a "Some problems and purposes of narrative analysis in educational research." Journal

of Education 167:57-71. (IC/NR)

1985b "Pronouns, markedness, and stem change in Tolowa." International Journal of

American Linguistics 51.4: 368-372. (RJ)

1984a Sarah Michaels & James Collins, "Oral discourse styles: Classroom interaction and

the acquisition of literacy." In D. Tannen (ed), Coherence in Spoken and Written

Discourse (pp. 219-244). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. (IC)

1984b David Shaul, Katherine Turner & James Collins "Esselen linguistic materials." Kansas

Working Papers in Linguistics 9:127-140. (NR)

1983a Linguistic Perspectives on Minority Education. Technical Report No. 275, Center for

the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, Champaign. (RWP)

1983b "Social organization and referential coherence in classroom discussions." In C.

Brugman and A. Dahlstrom (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley

Linguistics Society (pp. 10-24). Berkeley: BLS. (RA)

1982 "Discourse style, classroom interaction and differential treatment." Journal of Reading

Behavior 14.4: 429-37. (IC/NR)

1980 James Collins & Sarah Michaels. "The importance of conversational discourse style for

the acquisition of literacy." In B. Caron et al. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth Annual

Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp.143-155). Berkeley: BLS. (RA)

1979 "Athapaskan classifiers: Transitivity, person and deference." In C. Chiarello et al.

(eds) Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp. 49-

62). Berkeley: BLS. (RA)

Reviews and Commentary

2000 Comment on Ruqaiya Hasan “The disempowerment game: Bourdieu and Language

in Literacy”. Invited comment, Linguistics and Education 10.4:391-398.

1999 Comment on Les Field "Anthropologists and 'unacknowledged tribes' in California.

Invited comment, Current Anthropology 40.2:203-204.

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1998 Reflexive Language (Lucy) American Ethnologist. 25.1:15.

1998 Literacy, Emotion, and Authority (Besnier). Language 74.1:183-185.

1997 Comment on Nilofar Haeri "The reproduction of symbolic capital: Language, state,

and class in Egypt". Invited comment, Current Anthropology 38.5.

1995a Review of "Mock Spanish" (Hill). Electronic review on list: language-

culture@cs.uchicago.edu.

1995b The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin). Ethnohistory 45.2:338-342.

1994 Learning Capitalist Culture (Foley). Latin American Anthropological Review 4.2.

1992 Perspectives on Official English (Adams & Brink). American Anthropologist 94.2.

1991 Literacy and Orality (Finnegan) and Literacy and Society (Schousboe & Larsen).

American Anthropologist 93.1.

1989a Ethnography and Language in Educational Settings (Green & Wallat). Journal of

Pragmatics 13 (April):269-276.

1989b Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (Herron). Anthropology and Education

Quarterly 20.3:246-248.

1989c The Social Construction of Written Communication (Bennett & Rafoth). American

Anthropologist 91.4: 1039-1040.

1984 Chinookan Tense-Aspect Systems: An Areal-Historical Analysis (Silverstein). Journal

of Pragmatics 8.4:285-295.

Editorials and Journalistic Reports

1995 "Literature, literacy, and community." The Literature Update (Newsletter, National

Research Center on Literature Teaching and Learning), Spring: 1&3.

1993a "Editorial." Special Issue on Language, Nationalism, and Political Economy, Critique of

Anthropology 13.2: 99-100.

1993b "Editorial." Critique of Anthropology 13.1: 5-6. (with Thomas Patterson).

1979 "Navajo workers and the nation's rails." Wassaja (American Indian Historical Society),

October: 7-8.

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Manuscripts in press, under review, and in preparation

In press:

• “Introduction,” In J. Collins & S. Slembrouck (eds.) Multilingualism and Diasporic

Populations: Special issue of Language and Communication. 25.1 (Spring, 2005).

• “Spaces of multilingualism,” (Jan Blommaert, James Collins & Stef Slembrouck). In J.

Collins & S. Slembrouck (eds.) Multilingualism and Diasporic Populations: Special issue

of Language and Communication. 25.1 (Spring, 2005).

• “Literacy practices in sociocultural perspective,” Entry for the Elsevier Encyclopedia of

Language and Linguistics, 2nd

Ed. Summer, 2005.

• “Afterword” to M. Baynham & A. De Fina (eds.) Dislocations/Relocations: Narratives of

Displacement. St Jerome Publishers, Encounters Series. Spring, 2005.

• Review of N. Hornberger (ed.) The Continua of Biliteracy for Applied Linguistics,

2005.

• “Introduction,” Discourse and Critique: Case Studies at the Intersection of Linguistic

Anthropology and Critical Discourse Analysis. St Jerome Publishers Encounters Series.

Submitted July 2003 (co-authored with Jan Blommaert, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef

Slembrouck, and Jef Verscheuren)

Under review:

“„You don‟t know what they translate: Language contact, institutional procedure,

and literacy practices in neighborhood health centers in urban Flanders,”(James

Collins & Stef Slembrouck). Submitted to Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, under

revision. Available as Working Paper on Language, Power and Identity 19. HTTP://BANK.RUG.AC.BE/LPI/

“Polycentricities and interactional regimes in „globalized‟ neighborhoods,” (Jan

Blommaert,

James Collins & Stef Slembrouck). Submitted to Ethnography. April 2004. Available as

Working Paper on Language, Power and Identity 20. HTTP://BANK.RUG.AC.BE/LPI/.

“Reading shop windows: Multilingual literacy practices and indexical orders in

globalized neighborhoods,” (James Collins & Stef Slembrouck). Submitted to Written

Language and Literacy. May 2004. Available as Working Paper on Language, Power and Identity

21. HTTP://BANK.RUG.AC.BE/LPI/.

In preparation:

• “Differential treatment in reading groups,” revised & updated chapter for second edition

of J. Cook-Gumperz (ed.) The Social Construction of Literacy. Cambridge University

Press. Ms. to be submitted February 2005

• Contextualizing Language, Identity, and Inequality, monograph under contract with St

Jerome Publishers Encounters Series. Ms. to be submitted summer 2005.

Conferences and Colloquia Presentations

Invited Papers, Panels, and Colloquia

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“Spaces of multilingualism,” (Jan Blommaert, James Collins & Stef Slembrouck), as part of

ContactForum at the Royal Flemish Academy of Art and the Sciences, Brussels, September 6-7,

2004.

** Also presented as part of the panel “Ethnographies of Communication in Multilingual

Spaces,” at the meetings of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, London, September 9-

10, 2004.

“Regulation and reflexivity: Using linguistic ethnography to explore social categories,

literacy practices, and adolescent identities in an urban middle school” Paper presented

at the Cross London Literacy Seminar, Kings College/London, June 10, 2003.

** Also presented at the Vakgroep Engels Lunchtime Seminar, Gent University, Gent

(Belgium), June 17, 2003

** Revised and presented at the 8th

International Pragmatics Conference, panel on “Class,

identity, and literacy: Ethnographic and discourse-analytic perspectives,” Toronto, July 15,

2003.

** Presented at the Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Chicago, October 27,

2003.

“The Reading Wars In Situ: Using Linguistic Ethnography to Explore the Intersections of

Class, Gender, and Race” Language Oriented Research Forum, School of Education,

University at Albany, October 8, 2002.

“Literacy and power in modern nation states: Historical legacies and implications for

educational research” Lecture presented to the Department of Ethnic Studies and the

Center for Research on Educational Achievement and Teaching Excellence, University of

California/San Diego, January 2001.

“Language, identity, and learning in the era of “expert-guided systems” Paper for session on

Linguistic Anthropology of Education: Case Studies, American Anthropological

Association Annual Meetings. San Francisco. November 2000.

“Race, class and access to the internet: Confronting the Digital Divide” Workshop,

Book/Ends: Transformations of the Book and Redefinitions of the Arts and Humanities.

Albany NY, October 2000.

"The ebonics controversy in context: Literacies, subjectivities and language ideologies

in the United States." Lecture, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania,

December 1999.

“Selling the market: Educational standards, discourse, and social inequality”. Paper read at

Invited Session on “The Relevance of Critique in Discourse Analysis” American

Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Chicago. November 1999.

"The culture wars and shifts in linguistic capital: For combining political economy and

cultural analysis." Literacy and Rhetoric Colloquia, Department of English, University of

Illinois at Chicago. April 1999.

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"The culture wars and shifts in linguistic capital: For combining political economy

and cultural analysis." Symposium paper # 5, for Language and Culture electronic

discussion list (language-culture@cs.uchicago.edu) April 1999.

“Discourses of place and expropriation” Departmental Seminar, Department of

Anthropology, Goldsmiths College/London. January 1999.

"Tongues, scripts and populations: Paradoxes of language obsolescence and cultural

resurgence." Invited Presidential Session on Languages, Discourses, Populations,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia. December 1998.

"How is context conceptualized: The implications of Hymes' Amerindian work for

pragmatics." Invited panel on Dell Hymes and Pragmatics, 6th International Pragmatics

Conference. Reims, France. July 1998.

"A modern politics of place and identity: Language maintenance." Bilingualism Research

Group, Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University (UK). June 1998.

"The literacy thesis: Vexed question of development, rationality, and self." CrossLondon

Literacy Seminar. Kings College, London. May 1998.

"The ebonics controversy in context: Literacies, subjectivities and language ideologies

in the United States." Research seminar, Centre for Applied Linguistics Research.

Thames Valley University, London. May 1998.

"Bernstein, Bourdieu, and critical literacy studies." Conference on Knowledge, Identity,

Pedagogy. Southampton University (UK). March 1998.

** also presented at Workshop on Language and Literacy, School of Education, King's

College/London. May 1998.

** also presented at Literacy Research Group Seminar, Department of Linguistics, Lancaster

University (UK). June 1998.

“Reflections on and from Understanding Tolowa Histories.” Paper presented at session

on Anthropologists and Unacknowledged Tribes: An Encounter. 1998 California Indian

Conference. San Fransisco, CA. February 1998.

"A modern politics of place and identity: Fishing." Anthropology Department Research

Seminar. University of Manchester (UK). February 1998.

"After the culture wars." Invited session on Capitalist Economies and Higher Education,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Washington DC. November

1997.

"Self-questioning: Literacies, subjectivities, and language ideologies in the United

States." Invited session on Literacy and Language Ideologies, American Anthropological

Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco. November 1996.

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"Literacy and literacies, again." Language and Education Forum, School of Education,

State University of New York at Albany. October 1996.

"Discourses of place and expropriation." Anthropology Department, New School for

Social Research. February 1995.

** Also presented at Linguistics and Cognitive Science Colloquia, State University of New

York at Albany. April 1996.

** Also presented at Anthropology Colloquia, State University of New York at Albany.

February 1997.

"Literacy and literacies." Education and Language Forum, School of Education, State

University of New York at Albany. November 1994.

"Bourdieu: implications for social and discursive analysis." Public lecture and faculty

seminar presented at the Center for Humanities, University of New Hampshire. Durham

NH. October 1994.

"The literacy crisis at the university: Institutional contradictions and linguistic

hegemony." Sociolinguistic session on Literacy, Schooling, and Identity. XIIIth World

Congress of Sociology. Bielefeld, Germany. July 1994.

"Texts, social relations, and literature in the middle school." Talk presented at Reading

Research '94, Institute pre-conference, International Reading Association. Toronto. May

1994.

"Social difference and classroom dynamics in middle school literature lessons." Talk

presented at Reading Research '94, Institute pre-conference, International Reading

Association. Toronto. May 1994.

"Language renewal efforts and cultural politics: A Native American case." Joint

colloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, and Center for Franco-

Ontarian Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Toronto. May 1994.

"Place and identity among the Tolowa." Rutgers-Princeton Interdisciplinary Conference

on The Politics of Place. Rutgers University New Brunswick. April 1994.

"A psychology of diversity: Cognition, context, and contradiction." Invited session on

Language and Social Process: Papers in Honor of John Gumperz, American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Fransisco. December 1992.

"The uses and abuses of ethnography in education, II." Invited panel, Ethnography in

Educational Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania. February 1992.

"Our ideology and theirs." Invited session on Linguistic Ideologies: Theory and Practice,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. November 1991.

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"Language, race, and class: Social dynamics and educational implications." Invited

talk to New York State Council on Social Education, Conference on Racism and Social

Studies Education. Albany. November 1990.

"The literacy 'crisis' at the university: Institutional contradiction and linguistic

hegemony." Invited session on Language, Ideology and Political Economy, American

Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Washington DC. November 1989.

"The troubled text: History and language in basic writing programs." Invited session on

Literacy and Ideology, Boston University Conference on Language Development. October

1989.

** Also presented at Anthropology Colloquia, State University of New York at Albany.

October 1989

** Also presented at Contexts of Literacy Colloquium, Lehmann College, The Bronx. October

1989.

** Shortened version presented at Fellows' Sessions, Annual Meeting of the National

Academy of Education, Cambridge MA. June 1990.

"Determination and contingency: Language and education in the work of Pierre

Bourdieu." Invited participant at international conference on The Social Theory of Pierre

Bourdieu. Chicago. April 1989.

** Also presented at Tenth Annual Temple University Conference on Discourse Analysis.

Philadelphia. March 1989.

"The regimented pragmatics of text." Invited session on Decentered Discourse, American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. November 1987.

"Questioning writing ability: The discourse pragmatics of institutional selection." Literacy Research Center Speaker Series, Graduate School of Education, University of

Pennsylvania. February 1987.

"Hegemonic practice: Literacy and standard language in public education." Invited

sessions on Language and Political Economy, American Anthropological Association

Annual Meeting. Philadelphia. December 1986.

"Some recent research on literacy as historical product and social practice:

Implications for the classroom." Language and Literacy Division, School of Education,

University of California. Berkeley. April 1986.

"Conversation and knowledge in bureaucratic settings." Invited session on Discourse

and Organizational Process, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.

Washington DC. December 1985.

** Also presented at working seminar, Temple University Conference on the Rhetoric of the

Human Sciences. Philadelphia. April 1986.

** Also presented at Text Seminar, Center for Psychosocial Studies. Chicago. December

1986.

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"Some complexities of 'context' and 'language' in literacy activities." Invited symposium

on Literacy Learning in School, American Educational Research Association Annual

Meeting. Chicago. April 1985.

"Using cohesion analysis to understand access to knowledge." Invited participant,

Conference on Literacy, Language, and Schooling. University of Michigan. 1984.

** Revised version of paper presented at workshop of Council on Anthropology and

Education, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Denver. November

1984.

** Also presented at Colloquium on Psychology and Language, Department of Psychology.

University of Maryland. November 1984.

** Also presented at combined meeting of the Washington Linguistics Club/Child Language

Forum. November 1984.

"Discourse analysis and early literacy." Colloquium at Graduate School of Education,

University of Pennsylvania. October 1983.

** Also presented at School of Education. University of Delaware. October 1983.

** Also presented at School of Education, Institute for Research on Teaching. Michigan State

University. March 1984.

"Comparing spoken and written language." Pre-conference session on Spoken and

Written Language, Georgetown University Round Table. Washington DC. March 1981.

"Reading instruction and text-comprehension." Paper presented at a Social Science

Research Council workshop on Text-Comprehension, University of California.

Berkeley. May 1980.

Volunteered Conference Papers

“Polycentricities and interactional regimes in „globalized‟ neighborhoods,”to be presented as

part of panel on “Diasporas” at the meetings of the British Association of Applied

Linguistics, London, September 9-10, 2004. (with Stef Slembrouck)

“„You don‟t know what they translate: Language contact, institutional procedure, and

literacy practices in neighborhood health centers in urban Flanders,” Paper presented

at the 15th

International Sociolinguistics Symposium. April 2, 2004. Newcastle, UK. (with

Stef Slembrouck)

“The passions and perils of self-guidance: Learning, youth, and literacy.” Paper for session

on “Language, learning and culture: Developing selves as contexts for learning,” American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2002.

“Ecology, identity, and literacy.” Paper for session on “Official curriculum, hidden literacies

and identity in middle school students,” National Reading Conference, Miami, FL,

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December 2002.

“Claims on the General and the Particular: Confronting Research Legacies in the Analysis

of Discourse.” Paper for session on “Qualitative and quantitative approaches to the

analysis of classroom discourse,” American Educational Research Association Annual

Meeting, Chicago, April 2003.

“The reading wars in situ” Paper for session “Ethnographies of hegemony: Confronting

inequality in the contemporary era”, Sociolinguistics Symposium 14, Ghent University,

Ghent, Belgium, April 2002.

“Bourdieu, habitus, and literacy practices” Paper for session on “Linguistic ethnography as

a lens for theory and practice: Tracing practices in texts,” American Educational Research

Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 2002.

“Reconciling change and continuity among „unacknowledged tribes‟: The contested

case of the Awolot” Paper for session on “Reconciling change and continuity among

„unacknowledged tribes‟: Challenges for Anthropology” American Anthropological

Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November, 2001.

“Instructional interactions between teachers and their middle school students” (With Cheryl

Dozier and Peter Johnston). Paper for session A Multi-layered Study of Middle School

Struggling Readers at the University Literacy Lab, National Reading Conference.

Scottsdale AZ. December 2000.

** Revised version (With Mark Jury), presented at the 22nd

Annual Ethnography and

Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 2001.

“Neoliberalism, discourse, and public education: Untangling the manufacture of and

response to crisis”. Paper presented at session on The New Political Economy of

Education: Discourse, Semiotics, and Marketization, The Party‟s Not Over: Marxism 2000.

Amherst MA, September 2000.

“Virtual interaction features in labor‟s rhetoric of standards: A case study” 12th

Annual

Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education, Albany NY. June

2000.

“The linguistic anthropology of education” Invited panel, Ethnography and Education Research

Forum, University of Pennsylvania, March 2000.

"The rise of standards." National Reading Conference, Scottsdale AZ. December 1997.

"Discourses of place and expropriation." Session on Language and Culture in the

Courtroom, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC.

November 1995.

"The gendered dialectics of writing, teaching, and research." Session on Literacy, Power

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and Difference. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San

Francisco. April 1995.

"Academic literacy." Panel presentation. American Educational Research Association Annual

Meeting. San Francisco. April 1995.

"Tolowa histories: Inclusions and exclusions in making a people and a past." American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta. November 1994.

"Pets, babies and banking: A Tolowa wealth quest narrative." American

Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Washington DC. November 1993.

“Institutional hierarchies and silencing dissent." Panel presentation, Conference on Critical

Pedagogy and Developmental Postsecondary Education. Albany NY. November 1991.

"The uses and abuses of ethnography in education." Panel presentation, Ethnography in

Educational Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. February 1991.

"Training for the unknowable." Ethnography in Educational Research Forum. University

of Pennsylvania. February 1991.

"Gender and language loss: The Tolowa case." Conference on American Indian Languages,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans. December 1990.

"Constraints and contradictions: Some reflections on teaching, researching, and

the gendering of writing and knowledge." (with Catherine White) Ethnography and

Educational Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. March 1990.

"Syntactic structures and word-formation in Tolowa." Conference on American Indian

Linguistics, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Phoenix. November

1988.

"Structure and contradiction in schooled literacy." Session on Orality and Literacy.

Ethnography in Educational Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. February 1988.

"Nasalization, lengthening, and phonological rhyme in Tolowa." Annual Penn

Linguistics Colloquium. Philadelphia. January 1986.

"Vocalic variation in Tolowa stems and prefixes; a comparative account." Linguistic Society

of America Annual Meeting. Seattle. December 1985.

"Tolowa morphology and syntax in comparative perspective." Conference on American

Indian Linguistics, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Denver.

November 1984.

"Anaphora in children's narratives." Talk given at workshop of Council on Anthropology

and Education, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago.

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November 1983.

"Notes on Tolowa morphosyntax." Conference on American Indian Linguistics, American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. November 1983.

"Discourse and reading instruction in urban classrooms." National Reading Conference

Annual Meeting. Tampa FL. December 1982.

"Discourse style, classroom interaction, and differential treatment." American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles. December 1981.

"Social network, discourse style and educational outcomes." (with Sarah Michaels & Janice

Shafer) American Educational Research Association. Los Angeles. April 1981.

"Athapaskan verb-stem classifiers: Transitivity and social marking in historical

perspective." Symposium on Comparative Athapaskan and Language Planning,

Linguistic Society of America, Summer Session. University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque. July 1980.

Forthcoming talks and conference papers

“Reading shop windows: Multilingual literacy practices and indexical orders in

globalized neighborhoods,”to be presented as part of session on “Ethnographies of

Communication in Multilingual Spaces,” at the Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, San Franciso, November 16-20, 2004.

“Where language education occurs: Polycentricities in globalized neighborhoods” to

be presented at the 14th

World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Madison, WI, July 25-29

2005.

Participant & Organizer, Long-Term Research Seminars

• Invited member, FWO Onderzoeks-gemeenschap “Taal, mach en identiteit”/Research

Community on “Language, Power and Identity.” Belgian Fund for Social Research,

international working group, January 1999 – January 2004.

• Invited member & convenor, Working Conferences on the Linguistic Anthropology of

Education. Spencer Foundation supported, 2000-2002.

• External Fellow, Research Seminar on Localities, Center for the Critical Analysis of

Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, September, 1993 – May 1994.

• Co-organizer, Research Seminar on Anthropology and Media, Center for Psychosocial

Studies, Chicago, October, 1988 – June, 1990.

• Invited member, Research Seminar on Text, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago,

October 1986 – June 1988.

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Grants & Fellowships

2005 Encountering English: Language Learning, Social Class, and Contemporary

Migration in the US. Spencer Foundation, Small Grants Program. $30,150, for

exploratory field project, Summer-Fall 2005.

2004 Situated language contact in Late Modernity: Exploring linguistic competencies

across languages, modalities, and contexts. • Ghent University Research Council, Gent, 3,470 euros, for on-site research planning, May-

June 2003.

• Academy Fellowship, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Spring

2004. 12,000 euros, plus travel, lodging, and offices.

• Conference Grant, for ContactForum/Research seminar on Meertaligheid en immigratie:

taalcompetencie en geleterheid [Multilingualism and immigration: linguistic competence

and literacy]. A workshop for policymakers, practioners, and research community, Flemish

Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels, 6-7 September, 2004. 2,500 euros

2003 Exploring linguistic competencies across languages, modalities, and contexts. Anthro-

FRAP (Anthropology Department Faculty Research Assistance Program) $2,500.

2001-2003 Co- Investigator Partnership for Literacy: Improving English Language Arts

Instruction in the Middle School. National Research Center on English Language

Achievement (Office of Educational Research Improvement), State University of

New York at Albany. Particular responsibility: Qualitative case studies of

interventions, Approx. budget 2001-2003: $345,000.

1999 Language, Federal Recognition and Anthropological Theory Faculty Research

Assistance Program, State University of New York at Albany, $2,000.

1994 The Politics of Literacy at the Urban University Continuing Faculty Development

Award (for interview transcription, Spencer project [1988] data), New York State/United

University Professions Professional Development Committee, $750.

1993 Language and Place in Identity Politics and Indian Struggles External Fellowship,

1993-1994, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University,

$30,000.

1991 Language Renewal and Cultural Construction: A Native American Case Faculty

Research Assistance Program, State University of New York at Albany, $3,500.

1990-1993 Traditions and Transitions: Experiences with Literature Center for the

Learning and Teaching of Literature (Office of Educational Research Improvement), State

University of New York at Albany, $125,000.

1988 The Politics of Literacy at the Urban University Spencer Fellowship, National Academy

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of Education, $25,000.

1987 Tolowa Lexicography College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, Temple

University, $750.

1985a The Structure of Smith River Athapaskan and the Contribution of Linguistic

Research to Culture History Wenner Gren Foundation, $3,200.

1985b The Structure of Smith River Athapaskan and the Contribution of Linguistic

Research to Culture History Faculty Summer Fellowship, Temple University, $2,500.

1984a The Structure of Smith River Athapaskan Jacobs Fund, Elizabeth & Melville Jacobs

Foundation, $1200

1984b The Structure of Smith River Athapaskan Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Temple University,

$1,000.

1983 The Structure of Smith River Athapaskan Philips Fund, American Philosophical

Society, $815.

1982 Discourse Analysis and Early Literacy Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University

of California at Berkeley, $800.

1981 Classroom Language Patterns and Early Literacy Center for the Study of Reading,

University of Illinois, Champaign, $3,150.

Consulting

• Montessori Magnet School, City of Albany Public Schools, Albany, NY. Workshops on

reading, cultural context, and language difference, April & October 1997.

• Summer School for Egyptian Education Ministry Foreign Language Instruction Inspectors,

Center for Language Learning and Research, State University of New York at Albany.

Two-day workshops on Language and Culture, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.

• Tolowa Language Project, Crescent City, CA. Summers, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, and

1991.

• Literacies Institute, Newton, MA. Workshops on ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods

in educational research, for teacher-researchers, 1989.

• Amicus brief in Abbott v. Burke (New Jersey Supreme Court case on funding for public

education). Bibliographic consulting, 1989.

• Law Offices of Kalijarvi and Chuzi, P.C. Preliminary consulting on inter-ethnic

communication in bureaucratic settings, 1988.

• Prison Literacy Project. Script and projects consultant, documentary on literacy project in

Graverford Prison, 1985.

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Division. Proposal reviewing, 1984.

• Text-Analysis Project, AVC Corporation. Preparation of proposition text-base, 1982.

• Public Negotiation Project, University of California, Berkeley. Conversation analysis,

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1981.

• Thames Films, Ltd., London. Film on language in America, 1980.

Teaching [since 1989]

Graduate courses taught

Qualitative Research Methods

Discourse Analysis

Social Theory and Discourse Analysis

Discourse and Language in the Classroom

Literacy and Society

Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Literacy

Seminar in Reading: Constructivist Accounts of Reading

Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology

Language and Culture

Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Undergraduate courses taught

Language and Culture

Anthropology and Public Policy

Symbol and Human Nature

Introduction to Linguistics

Service [since 1989]

Departmental Committees** (m = member, c = chair)

Graduate Affairs Committee, Anthropology:

• (c) 2003-2005,

• (m) 1990-1991, 2002-2003

Curriculum Committee, Anthropology:

• (m) 1992-1993

Undergraduate Committee, Anthropology:

• (c)1997

• (m) 1998-2000, 1992-1993

Honors & Awards Committee, Anthropology:

• (m) Anthropology, 1995-1996

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Ad-hoc Tenure Committees:

• (m) Educational Theory and Practice, 1991

• (m) Anthropology, 1995

• (m) Anthropology, 1996

Ad-hoc Promotion Committee, Anthropology

• (m) 2001

Department of Reading:

All meetings & subcommittees 1991-1993, 1994-1998, 2000-2002 (**Dept. did not have

subcommittees until 2002).

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College and University Committees

Search Committees:

Ad-hoc University Search Committee for School of Education Dean, 2002-2003

Ad-hoc University Search Committee for Academic Vice President, 2000-2001

Ad-hoc Faculty Search Committee, School of Education, 1996

Continuing Appointments (Tenure) and Promotion Committee, School of Education:

(m) 1999-2000

(c) 2000-2002

College of Arts & Science Faculty Council:

• Representative, Anthropology, 1995-1997

• Executive Committee, CAS Council, 1995-1996

• Academic Programs Committee, CAS Council, chair 1995-1996, member, 1996-1997

Albany Chapter of United University Professions:

• Executive Committee (m), 1995-present;

• Membership Committee (c) 1997-2001;

• Part-Time Concerns Committee, (co-chair) 2001-2003

Professional Service: Boards, Committees, and Activities [since 1989]

Editorial Boards:

• Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. (2002-present)

• Linguistics and Education. (1988-present)

• Critique of Anthropology. (1990-present)

• Qualitative Studies in Education. (1997-present)

• Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2002-present)

Other journals reviewed:

American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Journal of Historical Sociology, Anthropological

Linguistics, Visual Communication, Written Language and Literacy, Research on the Teaching of

English, New Zealand Journal of Education Research.

Presses reviewed for:

Harcourt Brace & Javanovitch; Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; Routledge.

Funders reviewed for:

Spencer Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Endowment for the Humanities.

Prizes reviewed for:

• British Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Book Prize (2002).

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• Society for Linguistic Anthropology Graduate Student Research Prize (2002)

National professional committees and offices:

• At-Large Member, Executive Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American

Anthropological Association, 2001-2002.

• Ethics Committee (chair, 1998-1999; member 1998-2001), American Anthropological

Association, 1998-2001.

• Nominating Committee (member), Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 1991, 1996

Sessions organized at professional meetings:

• International Association of Applied Linguistics, 2005

• British Association of Applied Linguistics, 2004

• International Pragmatics Association, 8th

International Conference: 2003

• American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings: 1986, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1999,

2004.

• Sociolinguistic Symposium 14, 2002

• National Reading Conference 2002

Sessions discussed:

• NEAA (Northeastern Anthropological Association) Meetings, 2003

• AAA Annual Meetings, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002

• Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, 1991, 1992

Invited commentator (small conferences & research seminars):

• Seminar on “Narrative in Social and Discourse Analysis,” Leeds University, March 23,

2001.

• Seminar on “Linguistic Ethnography in the UK,” Leicester University, March 28-29, 2001.

• Plenary session, Conference on “Text, Talk and Work,” University of Gent, 2000.

• Conference on “Language in the City,” New York University, 1994.

Languages

Spanish basic: reading, limited conversation

French basic: reading, limited conversation

Dutch basic: reading, limited conversation

Navajo fieldwork experience, knowledge of structure

Tolowa reading knowledge, conversation, considerable structural knowledge and fieldwork

experience

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Professional Associations

• American Anthropological Association

• American Educational Research Association

• National Reading Conference

• International Pragmatics Association