The 2027 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference (SLA27) is thrilled to welcome you to New York City! For more information, please visit the conference website: slaconference.org

The Language and Social Justice Committee (LSJ) of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) will hold its Fall General Meeting on Friday, October 30, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) / 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PT). linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/10...

Language & Social Justice Committee Fall General Meeting - Friday, October 30, 2026 - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Shared on behalf of the LSJ steering committee. The Language and Social Justice Committee (LSJ) of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) will hold its Fall General Meeting on Friday, October 3...

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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for seven positions this fall. linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/10...

SLA Call for Nominations - Deadlines December 15, 2026 & January 15, 2027 - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Posted on behalf of the SLA Nominations Committee: Charles Zuckerman (zuckermc@bc.edu)Elaine Chun (chune@mailbox.sc.edu)Cheryl Yin (cyin@carleton.edu) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites n...

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Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology – Deadline October 15, 2026 @journaloflinganth.bsky.social linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/08...

Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Deadline October 15, 2026 - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is a three-year ter...

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University of Michigan Ann Arbor invite applications for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor to build and direct a new Mellon-funded interdisciplinary program promoting Environmental Justice and the Humanities, to begin August 25, 2027. apply.interfolio.com/192931

The Anthropology Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the anthropology of China. careercenter.americananthro.org/job/714273/a...

Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology – Deadline October 15, 2026 @journaloflinganth.bsky.social linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/08...

Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Deadline October 15, 2026 - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is a three-year ter...

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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor in Language and Wellbeing, expected to start on September 1, 2027. careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: Social & Behavioral Sciences Department: Anthropology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: ...

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Congratulations to the Anthropological Association’s 2026 Award Recipients! 🎉 Special congratulations to Alejandro Paz and Michael Min-Torresdey, two linguistic anthropologists recognized among this year’s award recipients. americananthro.org/news/the-ame...

The American Anthropological Association's 2026 Award Recipients - American Anthropological Association

2026 American Anthropological Association Award Winners

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The interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies welcomes submissions of original research manuscripts and reviews for the 2026 and 2027 issues. The journal has a new editorial team and board and remains an open-access and fee-free peer-reviewed publication. repository.gonzaga.edu/jhs/

Use the SLA Social Media Submission Form to submit publications, job postings, calls for papers, awards, funding opportunities, conferences, and other professional announcements for sharing across our social media channels. Submit here: linguisticanthropology.org/sla-social-m...

Interested in publishing on the SLA Blog? We are currently accepting pitches on any topic relevant to linguistic anthropology! Learn more about SLA, our blog, and how to submit here: linguisticanthropology.org/submissions/

The SLA Blog is excited to announce our return from hiatus with a piece titled "There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self" by María José Peláez, Kai Blevins, and Joel Kuipers linguisticanthropology.org/sla-blog/the...

There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self What happens when the tools designed to protect research participants end up either 1) obscuring their facial expressi...

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Remembering Dr. Marcyliena Morgan linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/06...

Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025 - Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Marvin Sterling Prof. Marcy Morgan was co-chair of my MA and PhD committees in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. My MA thesis explored the experiences of African American military personnel at a...

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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is excited to announce that our 2027 conference will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, June 3–5, 2027. Additional information will be shared in the coming months.

SLA AWARD FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/ Please submit nominations using this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.

Happy Pride 2026!

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology holds an annual student essay competition at the undergraduate level. Submissions are due June 15, 2026. linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/

Vernacular infrastructuring: Rethinking linguistic agency of minority-language speakers in multilingual digital environment Udiana Puspa Dewi anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories Vincent Pak doi.org/10.1111/jola...

The SLA Mentoring Program virtual (Zoom) event on Friday, May 22, 2026 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST. The theme for this event is “Building Successful Mentoring Relationships: Focus on Communication." Please RSVP to help us plan attendance: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Taylor Gilliam just published her piece entitled "Pigs, Pokes and Power: Sovereign Silence and Sustainable Futures in Central Appalachia" on the SLA column of Anthropology News! www.anthropology-news.org/articles/pig...

Language Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language Models – An Online Launch Friday, April 17, 2026 12pm to 1:30pm Eastern Time (UTC-4) Register for the Zoom meeting at: tinyurl.com/languagemach...

Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva doi.org/10.1111/jola...

The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology Zachary Sheldon doi.org/10.1111/jola...

“It doesn't give a s*** about Arabic or English”: Semiotic ideologies and demarcation among LLM engineers in Amman, Jordan Tariq Adely doi.org/10.1111/jola...

The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Courtney Handman doi.org/10.1111/jola...

What if you had a collection of research all in one place that showcased the importance of ambivalence, bivalency and ambiguity in our understanding of language? Look no further than this Virtual Issue curated by Sarah Muir! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models by Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun doi.org/10.1111/jola...