CLIC-Affiliated Graduate Students
Amanda Jean Bailey (Anthropology)
ajbailey [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Language Revitalization, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Education
Research Focus
Narrative and Healing, Identity and Place, Urban Indigenous Communities, Art Communities, Tribal Colleges, Sign languages, Gesture, Oaxaca (Mexico), Montana, Los Angeles
Website
http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/grads/amanda-jean-bailey
Kerby Bennett (Anthropology)
kerbybennett [at] gmail.com
kebennett [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Language Ideologies, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Disability and Illness
Research Focus
Chronic Illness, Type 1 Diabetes, Medical Discourse
Molly Josette Bloom (Anthropology)
mjbloom [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Language and Identity, Disability Studies, “Native” Ethnography
Research Focus
Disabled Athletes, United States, Morocco, English and Moroccan Arabic
Website
http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/grads/molly-josette-bloom
Hannah Carlan (Anthropology)
hannahcarlan [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology, Language and Media, Gender Studies
Research Focus
Gender Violence Activism, Mass and Social Media, NGOs, Hindi and English, New Delhi, India
Website
http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/
Elizabeth Carter (Asian Languages and Cultures)
lizbcarter [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Corpus Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Forensic Linguistics
Research Focus
Criminal Trials in Mainland China
Andrew Chalfoun (Sociology)
achalfoun [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis, Political Sociology, Organizations, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory
Research Focus
Religious language in faith based non-profits
Spencer Chen (Anthropology)
scchen0918 [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Language Ideologies, Linguistic Anthropology, and Media Anthropology
Research Focus
Cultural production, voice-acting, dubbing, transcreation, perceptual dialectology
Keith Cox (Sociology)
kgcox [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Medical Sociology, Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology
Research Focus
Doctor-Patient Interaction, Diagnostic Uncertainty, Treatment Recommendation, and Contingency Planning
Website
http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/grads/keith-cox
Lilit Ghazaryan (Anthropology)
ghazaryanl [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Linguistic Anthropology, Language Socialization, Multilingualism
Research Focus
Metalinguistic awareness, peer-group socialization among children, Armenian-American community in Los Angeles
Amelia Hill (Sociology)
amjhill [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis, Sociology, Gender Studies
Research Focus
Social Categorization and Inequality, Gender, Race
Website
http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/
Rebecca Kaufman (Sociology)
rkaufmanr [a] gmail.com
Fields of Study
Medical Sociology, Ethnography
Research Focus
Reproducion, Doctor-Patient Interaction
Ruey-Ying Liu (Sociology)
rueyying [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis
Research Focus
Research Focus: Interpreter-Mediated Interaction, Parent-Child Interaction, Child Socialization, Bilingualism
Website
http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/grads/ruey-ying-liu
Abigail Mack (Anthropology)
ajanemack [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Psychological and Medical Anthropology
Research Focus
Writs of Habeas Corpus, Medical and Legal Decision Making, Mental Health Law
Website
http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/grads/abigail-mack
Amanda McArthur (Sociology)
ammcarth [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology
Research Focus
Doctor-Patient Communication, Primary Care, Diagnosis, Touch & Multimodality
Website
http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/grads/amanda-mcarthur
Brianna McKenna (Sociology)
brmckenna [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Sociology of health, medicine, and disability; conversation analysis
Research Focus
Chronic illness, diagnosis and diagnostic uncertainty, doctor-patient interaction
Reem Mehdoui (Anthropolgy)
reemmehdoui [at] yahoo.com
Fields of Study
Linguistic Anthropology, Language Ideologies, Language Socialization, Language and Identity, Anthropology of Education
Research Focus
Multilingualism, education, political economies, neoliberalism, high schools, eliteness, North Africa, Tunisia
Website
https://anthro.ucla.edu/grads/reem-mehdoui
Kristella Montiegel (Sociology)
kmontiegel [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Media and Communication
Research Focus
Early education of Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing children, childhood socialization, classroom interaction
Website
https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/kristella-montiegel
Luis Manuel Olguin (Sociology)
lmolguin [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology
Research Focus
Spanish-in-interaction; Talk, Culture, and Media; Exchange Behavior; Political Corruption
Websites
http://lmolguin.com
https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/lmolguin
Sonya Rao (Anthropology)
sonyarao [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Language Ideologies, Language Access, Language Policy
Research Focus
Interpreters in Immigration Court, Access to Interpreters, Political Economies and Neoliberalism, Life History, the State
Website
www.sonyarao.net
Helen Wan (Asian Languages and Cultures)
helenwan [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Sociolinguistics, Language and Identity, Corpus Linguistics
Research Focus
Political discourse in Hong Kong, cross-cultural media and gender studies, Cantonese Linguistics
Alex Ward (Anthropology)
alexanderward [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Linguistic Anthropology, Language Ideologies, Language Revitalization
Research Focus
Authority in Native American language revitalization and NAGPRA implementation
Yan Zhou (Asian Languages and Cultures)
yz007 [at] ucla.edu
Fields of Study
Chinese Linguistics, Interactional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics
Research Focus
Modality, government-mass communication, second language classroom interaction
Website
http://www.alc.ucla.edu/person/yan-zhou/
