Curriculum Vitae
Janina Fenigsen
Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
1512 Pendleton St .
Columbia , SC 29208
fenigsen@gwm.sc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Brandeis University , 2000.
M.A. in Anthropology, Brandeis University, 1992.
M.A. in Sociology, Jagiellonian University ( Krakow, Poland), 1975.
SUBDISCIPLINARY FIELDS
Linguistic anthropology, Colonial Theory, Caribbean Studies.
RESEARCH TOPICS AND MAJOR TEACHING INTERESTS
Political economy of language, language ideologies, gender and emotion, politics of representation, creole languages, Caribbean art and belief systems, institutional discourse.
PUBLICATIONS
| 2005 |
Meaningful Routines: Meaning-making and the Face Value of Barbadian Greetings, In Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Mühleisen, Susanne and Bettina Migge (eds.), John Benjamins.
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| 2003 |
Journal of Pragmatics September/December. Special Issue, “Misrecognition, Linguistic Awareness, and Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnographies and Approaches,” guest editor.
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| 2003 |
“Language Ideologies in Barbados: Processes and Paradigms,” Journal of Pragmatics September/December. Special Issue, “Misrecognition, Linguistic Awareness, and Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnographies and Approaches”
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| 2003 |
Introduction, Journal of Pragmatics September/December. Special Issue, “Misrecognition, Linguistic Awareness, and Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnographies and Approaches”
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| 2003 |
Review of Duranti ed. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , Vol. 9
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| 2001 |
Review of Hanks Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context, American Ethnologist28(3): 696-697.
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| 1999 |
“‘A Broke-up Mirror’: Representing Bajan in Print,” Cultural Anthropology14(1):61-87.
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| 1998 |
Review of Silverstein and Urban, Natural Histories of Discourse, American Ethnologist 25(4):751-752.
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| 1998 |
Review of Fishman, Conrad, and Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 8(2):255-257.
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| 1997 |
Review of Brenneis and Macauley, The Matrix of Language, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 7(1):139.
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| 1977 |
“Cyganie Nowotarszczyzny: Sytuacja Wspolczesna i Kierunki Przemian.” [The Roma of Nowy Targ Region: Current Situation and the Trends of Change], Ethnografia Polska . Vol 22/2. |
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
“From Apartheid to Incorporation: Language Policy and the Modern Speech Community in Barbados, West Indies,” Journal ofPragmatics .
UNDER REVISIONS
“‘Flying at half-mast’: Voices, Genres, and Orthographies in Barbadian Creole,” solicited for Variation in the Caribbean: From Individual agency to Creole Continuum, Lars Hinrichs ed., to appear in Johns Benjamins, Creole Language Library Series
“Banksby and Lord Simpleton Get Madly Gay: Dueling Colonial Voices in a Barbadian Burlesque,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
SUBMITTED TO THE PUBLISHER
| 2007 |
Prospectus for the book, Everyday Lives of Language Ideologies in Barbados, to Mouton de Gruyter, Language, Power and Social Process Series. Manuscript in full rough draft. |
PRESENTATIONS
| 2004 |
“Scripting Inequality: Language in Barbadian Literature and Media,” Society for Caribbean Linguistics Annual Meeting, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
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| 2003 |
“Lost at Sea in Global Spaces: Mapping Registers and Registering Dialects in a Creole Speech Community.” AAA Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL.
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| 2002 |
“Sociolinguistic Boundaries on Stage: Barbadian Paradigms and Performances.” AAA Annual Meetings, New Orleans LA
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| 2001 |
“Banksby and Lord Simpleton Get Madly Gay: Dueling Voices in a Barbadian Burlesque.” AAA Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA
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| 2001 |
“Old Modernities and New: Language, Alienation, and Postcolonial Selves in Barbados.” Presented at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Anthropology Department of the University of South Carolina.
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| 2000 |
“Old Modernities and New: Modernity and Language in the Caribbean.” AAA Annual Meetings, 2000, San Francisco, CA.
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| 1999 |
“Selves and Others Through Language.” AAA Annual Meetings, November 1999, Chicago, IL.
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| 1998 |
“How Transient Encounters Matter: Tourism and Language Change in Barbados.” AAA Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
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| 1997 |
“‘Flying at half-mast’: Voices, Genres, and Orthographies in Barbadian Creole.” AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.
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| 1996 |
“Writing on the Margins: Imprinted Evidence of Barbadian Creole.” AAA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
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| 1996 |
“‘A Broke-up Mirror’: Representing Barbadian Creole in Print.” Brandeis University Conference on Language and Ideology, Waltham, MA.
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| 1995 |
“Madame, You are Impeding the Party: Narrating Sociolinguistic Boundaries in Barbados.” AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.
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| 1995 |
“Adjusting to Suit: The Politics of Discourse in a Barbadian Village.” Brandeis University; sponsored by the Department of Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology. |
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
| 2006 |
Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Member-at-large (elected)
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| 2006 |
Student Paper Prize Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
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WORK EXPERIENCE
| 2001 |
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, and core faculty, Linguistics
Program, University of South Carolina,
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| 2000-2001 |
Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Brandeis University (courses: “Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics,” “Language in American Life,” “Mind, Self, and Emotion in Culture,” “Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.”)
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| 1999- 2000 |
Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Yale University (courses: “Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean,” “Gender, Discourse, and the Politics of Emotion,” “Language and Colonialism,” “Jamaican Patwa in Global, Urban Settings,” “Language, Culture, and Society.” )
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| 1998 |
Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Tufts University.
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| 1996-7 |
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
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| 1995 |
The University Prize Instructor at the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.
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| 1994-6 |
Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University, American Studies Department.
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| 1989-92 |
Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology.
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| 1990 |
Research Assistant, American Bar Foundation.
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| 1984-86 |
Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), Department of Anthropology.
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| 1979-83 |
Assistant Manager, Danafco Farms ( Accra, Ghana).
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| 1976 |
Instructor, University of Warsaw ( Poland), Institute of Education.
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| 1977-9 |
Research Assistant, Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Sociology. |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| 2006 |
Member-at-Large, Executive Board, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, AAA
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AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
External Grants
| 1994 |
Sigma Xi, predoctoral grant-in-aid of research
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| 1993 |
Research Institute for the Study of Man, Ruth Landes Award for Dissertation Research. |
Brandeis Awards, Grants, and Honors
| 1995 |
Frances and Jeffrey Sachar Fund, grants in aid of research
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| 1994 |
University Prize Instructorship, The Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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| 1994 |
Robert Manners Award for the Best Specialist Essay, an honorary distinction
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| 1994 |
Department of Latin American Studies, Jane’s Travel Grant.
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| 1992 |
Sachar Grant for Dissertation Research.
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| 1988-93 |
Anthropology Fellowship.
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| 1987-95 |
Anthropology Scholarship. |
FIELD RESEARCH
| 2002 |
Barbados (summer research)
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| 1994, 1992 |
Barbados (dissertation research).
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| 1990 |
Law School Project (American Bar Foundation, principal investigator: Dr. Elizabeth Mertz).
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| 1976 |
Research in a small-town cultural association ( Polish Academy of Science, principal investigator: Dr. L. Szwengrub).
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| 1973-4 |
M.A. thesis research among Bargitka Roma, Polish Gypsies. |
LANGUAGES
English, Polish, Russian, Bajan, French (reading only)
ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Ethnological Society,
Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Linguistic Society of America,
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Society for Caribbean Linguistics.
REFERENCES
Dr. Judith T. Irvine, Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
1020 LSA
University of Michigan
500 S. State St.
Ann Arbor , MI 48109-1079
Phone (734) 7640485
jti@umich.edu
Dr. Richard J. Parmentier, Professor of Anthropology and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
Waltham , MA 02454 -9110
Phone: (781) 736-2220
parmentier@brandeis.edu
Dr. Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology 452 SCH
Columbia University
1200 Amsterdam Ave.
New York , NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-4552
bmm23@columbia.edu
Dr. John Rickford
The Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Bldg. 460, Rm 107
Stanford , CA 94305-2150
Phone: (650) 723-4284
rickford@csli.stanford.edu
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