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Conversations, Categories, and Applications: Methods for Analyzing Interaction (March 23rd, 2011)
Elizabeth Stokoe is Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Her current research interests are in conversation analysis, membership categorization, and social interaction in various ordinary and institutional settings, including educational talk, neighbour mediation, police interrogation, role-play and simulated interaction. She is the author of Discourse and Identity (with Bethan Benwell, Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Conversation and Gender (with Susan Speer, Cambridge University Press, 2011).
For more information about Elizabeth Stokoe, please visit her website.
Applied Conversation Analysis: Interaction Order, Family, and Medicine Social Systems (March 22, 2012)
Ignasi Clemente, Ph.D. is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. Dr. Clemente received his PhD from UCLA under the supervision of M. H. Goodwin. He was previously an adjunct research assistant professor in the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, D. Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. His research interests include childhood studies; the sociocultural and communicative aspects of pain and suffering; health communication and shared decision-making in pediatric care; health disparities and communication, and embodied communication in multilingual settings. His work has appeared in Social Science and Medicine,Sociology of Health and Illness, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, and several edited volumes.
Analyzing the Language of Race and Racism in Social Interaction with Angela Reyes (April 4, 2013)
Angela Reyes (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003) is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She works on theories of semiotics, discourse, stereotype, and racialization. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of video-recorded interaction, her research examines how ideologies of race and ethnicity are formulated through spatiotemporal scales of communicative context, particularly in informal educational sites for Asian American urban youth. Her books include Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007).
Advice, Descriptions, and Psychology
Jonathan Potter first taught statistics in the Psychological Laboratory at St Andrews University in Scotland. He then moved to Loughborough University, attracted by the idea of working with Michael Billig and Derek Edwards. More recently he has combined research with academic leadership roles, being first Head of Department of Social Sciences, and then Dean of School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences at Loughborough.
How to Do Things with Stories: Storytelling as Action
Jenny Mandelbaum is Professor of Communication at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. She uses Conversation Analysis to examine how a variety of aspects of the organization of interaction pertain to social relationships and identities. Her work focuses on the everyday lives of families. Her published work includes studies of storytelling, repair organization, the management of social knowledge (epistemics), and the implementation and consequences of such actions as recruiting assistance from others, requesting, offering, assessing, and complaining.
Foundations of Conversation Analysis
Galina Bolden is a Professor of Communication at Rutgers University. She conducts conversation analytic research in Russian and English languages, both in ordinary conversation and in healthcare settings. Her research examines how participants enact and negotiate their cultural identities and personal relationships in and through talk-in-interaction. She is a co-author (with Alexa Hepburn) of Transcribing for Social Research.