Special Volumes
Ronkin, Maggie and Amy Bard. In preparation. Constructing Gender in South Asian Muslim Texts and Practices (Papers from the 35th Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin). To be submitted for review to Gender and Language (London: Equinox Publishing).
Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, and Maggie Ronkin, eds. 1997. Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Greece. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126. Joshua Fishman, general editor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Co-edited Volumes
Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger, eds. 1996. Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin, eds. 1996. Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Articles: First or Sole Author
Ronkin, Maggie. 2006. “Interrogating Power Upside Down: Literal and Hypothetical Worlds in Narration”. Language and Linguistics in South Asia: Selected Papers from SALA 24 (working title). Kamal K. Sridhar and Shakaripur N. Sridhar, eds. New Delhi: Manohar Publications.
Ronkin, Maggie. 2004. “Resistance (and Agency) in a Lahori Domestic Worker’s Narrative”.
In William Randall, Delores Furlong, and Tanya Poitras, eds. Narrative Matters 2004 Conference Proceedings. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Narrative Matters Conference Planning Committee.
Ronkin, Maggie and Helen E. Karn. 1999. “Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet”. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3.3. 360-380.
Book Notices and Reviews
2008. Book Review: Eisenlohr, Patrick. 2006. Little India: Diaspora, Time, and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.
2008. Book Review: Chatterjee, Indrani and Richard M. Eaton. eds. 2006. Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.
2007. Book Review: Ring, Laura A. Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies 66.3.
2006. Book Review: Bhatia, Nandi. 2004. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 65.3. 638-640.
2005. Book Review: Mukherjee, Arun Prabha, translator. 2003. Joothan: A Dalit’s Life by Omprakash Valmiki (original in Hindi). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 64.2. 504-505.
2004. Book Review: Tarlo, Emma. 2003. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 63.4. 1184-1185.
2002. Book Review: Wortham, Stanton. 2001. Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series). New York, NY: Columbia University Teachers College Press, Columbia University. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.4. 615-618.
1997. Book Notice: Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta, and Jayant K. Lele, eds. 1995. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics (Language and Development - Volume 2, Udaya Narayna Singh and Probal Dasgupta, series editors). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications Ltd. Language 74.3. 902-3.
Selected Presentations
“Voicing and Positioning to Produce a Local Moral Order”. Panel on Narrating Moral Selves in Everyday Life: The ‘Struggle for Recognition’ across Cultures. Fathali Moghaddam, Discussant. International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Washington, DC, March 2007.
“Stepping into a Women Collective Story in Lahore”. Panel on Constructing Gender in South Asian Muslim Texts and Practices. Katherine Ewing, Chair. Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2006.
“Fugitive Meanings and Veiled Resistance in an Oral Narrative”. Panel on Literatures, sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Annual of Urdu Studies. C. M. Naim. Discussant. Second Biennial International Pakistan Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 2005.
“Interrogating Power Upside Down: Literal and Hypothetical Worlds in Narration”. Panel on Discourse, and Inequality. South Asian Language Analysis Round Table 24 (SALA XXIV). State University of New York at Stony Brook, November 2004.
“Resistance (and Agency) in a Lahori Domestic Worker’s Narrative”. Narrative Matters 2004, Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 2004.
Workshop on Languages of Afghanistan, South Asia Language Resource Center, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania, December 2003:
• Materials and Resources for Language Study
• Resources for the Study of Language Policy in Central Asia and Miscellaneous Materials
• Resources for the Study of Orthography in Language Planning in Mongolia
“A Strategy for Revealing the Incriminating in an Urdu-Panjabi Narrative”. Panel on Achieved and Attributed Identity in Interaction. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2003 (Cancelled due to injury).
“Izzat se BaiThe hue, Allah kii Raah par Lage” (‘While Maintaining our Honor, We’ve Taken the Path of Allah’). (Invited). Panel on Contributions from the Study of Pakistani Languages. New Perspectives on Pakistan: Contexts, Realities, and Visions for the Future. First Biennial International Pakistan Studies Conference. Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, April 2003.
“Speech Actions, Face-Work, and the Self in a Lahori Woman’s Personal Experience Narrative”. Panel on Women, Language Use, and Performativity in Muslim South Asia and Beyond. Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2002.
“Discursive Positioning and Identity Construction in a Pakistani Narrative”. Symposium About Language and Society (SALSA). University of Texas at Austin, April 2002.
“Represented Speech, Positioning, and Identity in a Pakistani Family-Centered Narrative”. Panel on Linguistic Positionality and the Construction of Identity. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 2001.
“Framing a Working-Class Woman’s Urdu-Panjabi Narratives”. Annual Pakistan Workshop, Keele University and University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, September 2001. (Presented electronically due to airport closures).
“Gendered Communication Styles: A Tribute to the Work of Dr. Deborah Tannen”. (Invited plenary). International Women’s Day National Seminar on Women in Higher Education Management, Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, March 2000.
“The Anti-Ebonics Ideology”. (Invited). Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, May 1999.
(with Helen E. Karn) “Lessons Learned from the Ebonics Controversy”. (Special event). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998.
(with Helen E. Karn) “Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet”. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, January 1998.
A revised version of the paper has been used in courses at Brown University, the University of Calgary, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, Georgetown University, Sonoma State University, Stanford University, the University of Essex (UK), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of South Carolina, the University of Texas at Austin, West Virginia University, and Yale University, among others.
Talks based on the project were presented to:
• The Discourse Research Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, March 1999.
• The Word at Blair, a Maryland Educational Television Program produced by high school students, February 1999.
• The Interdisciplinary Works-in-Progress Speakers’ Series, sponsored by the English Department Research Committee and the Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs, Georgetown University, February 1988.
• The undergraduate course on Language and SocialLife, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, April 1998 and April 1999.
• The graduate course on Public Opinion, Propaganda, and the Media, Department of Linguistics and the Graduate School Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University, February 1998.
“Roger, Roger, There’s a Fire in the House: An Interactional Account of Deixis in Preschool Children’s Pretend Play”. Midwest Modern Language Association Forum, Studies in Deixis: Working at the Margins of Semantics and Pragmatics, Chicago, November 1997.
“Language Ideology and Linguistic Racism in Outgroup Parodies of Ebonics”. (invited). Graduate seminar on African American Vernacular English, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, September 1997.
“Usage and Warning Labels on Three Over-the-Counter Pediatric Cough and Cold Medicines: A Practical Application of Pragmatics”. Annual Meeting of the International Linguistic Association, Washington, DC, March 1997.
Professional Activities
2005-07: Convener of the Seminar Series, Sufism and Urdu Poetry in Society, led by Moazzam Siddiqi, in the Department of Linguistics and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
2006: Participant in the Workshop Saraapaa: From Head to Foot at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2005: Convener of the Summer Seminar Series, Urdu Poetry in Society, led by Moazzam Siddiqi, for the South Asia Studies Program at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
2004: Facilitator for an undergraduate panel and Chair of the Session on Language and Resistance at the Georgetown University Women’s Studies Program Interdisciplinary Student Conference on Globalization and Gender.
2004: Participant in the Urdu Workshop on the poetry of the Shia mourning assembly, the Urdu Marsiyah in Text and Performance, at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2003: Bibliographer for the Workshop on Languages of Afghanistan and Its Neighbors at the University of Pennsylvania.
2003: Participant in the Workshop on the Panjabi Folk Poetry of Bullha Shah at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2003: Convener of a panel on Contributions from the Study of Pakistani Languages for the Conference on New Perspectives on Pakistan: Contexts, Realities, and Visions for the Future
First Biennial International Pakistan Studies Conference, at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2002: Co-organizer of the panel on New Approaches to Face-Work for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
2002: Organizer and Chair of the panel on Women, Language Use, and Performativity in Muslim South Asia and Beyond for the Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2002: Participant in the Urdu Workshop on Rehkti at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2001: Participant in the Urdu Workshop on the Poet Nazir Akbarabadi at the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University.
2001: Participant in the Georgetown Pakistan Forum of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
1998: Discussant on the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Special Event Panel, Formulating Language Policy: Public Debates and the Role of an Anthropolitical Linguistics, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
1997: Representative of the American Dialect Society at the Inauguration of the Fifth President of George Mason University.
1997: Graduate Assistant for the Forty-Second Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association.
1996-97: Graduate Student Coordinator of the First Georgetown University Department of Linguistics Speakers’ Series.
1996: Co-organizer of the Forty-Seventh Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.
1995: Co-organizer of the Forty-Sixth Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association
American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Linguistic Society of America
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Fellowships and Awards
2008: American Institute of Pakistan Studies Senior Research Fellowship: Re-making Sense of the Past in the Present: Ritual Practices in Sheedi Communities.
2001-07: Conference and Panel Travel Awards: American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Georgetown University Department of Linguistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Narrative Matters, and the Social Science and the Humanities Research Council of Canada.
2002-03: American Institute of Pakistan Studies Fellowship for dissertation research (deferred due to U.S. Government travel prohibition).
Fall 2000: Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship for dissertation research (research interrupted due to death in family).
Spring 2000: American Institute of Pakistan Studies Fellowship for preliminary dissertation research.
Fall 1999: NMERTA/U.S. Information Agency Fellowship for the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan.
Summer 1999: Linguistic Society of America Fellowship for the National Science Foundation-sponsored Institute on Methods in Linguistic Anthropology.
Summer 1999: Alternate for the Language in the USA Fellowship of the Linguistic Society of America.
1999-2001: Presidential Honorary Membership in the American Dialect Society.
1998-2001 and 1995: Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Scholarships for studies in sociolinguistics.
1996-98 and 1994-95: Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowships for studies in sociolinguistics.
1992-94: University of Illinois Dean’s Discretionary Fellowships for studies in general linguistics.
1986-1992: U.S. Department of Education awards to study Hindi, Urdu, and Pashto; Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad support for Urdu in Pakistan, and support from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, for Tajik language training.
References on Request
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