Maggie Ronkin

Sociocultural Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

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2008-2009 Courses—Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College.

Fall 2008 Spring 2009
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology—Lecture based on James Spradley's and David McCurdy's Conformity and Conflict, with supplementary readings. Fall and spring. Language in the USA—Upper-level lecture on language ideologies and controversies, "bad" language in general, and sociocultural constructions of language identities.
Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology—Lecture based on Alessandro Duranti's Linguistic Anthropology, adapted for a rigorous undergraduate program. Approaches to Discourse Analysis—Seminar on functionalist approaches of interest across the interpretive disciplines, based on Deborah Schiffrin's Approaches to Discourse.

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Summary of Courses Taught and TA'd

Fall 2007 Course—Department of Anthropology, George Washington University

The Ethnographic Analysis of Speaking, an introduction to verbal performance and its analysis using Richard Bauman's Story, Performance, and Event and Deborah Tannen's Framing in Discourse. Seminar-style course included in the university's writing in the disciplines initiative (15-20 students).

Spring 2007 Courses—Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin 

Language and Society in South Asia, a self-designed upper-level seminar-style course cross-listed in Asian Studies and Anthropology (10 students).  

Introduction to India, a gateway undergraduate course cross-listed in Asian Studies, Anthropology, History, and Religious Studies (75 students). Emphasis on 19th and 20th century history and the politics of identity, using David Ludden's India and South Asia: A Short History.

2005-2007 Outreach Seminars—Georgetown University

Seminar on Sufism

Urdu Poetry in Society

2004 Course—Program on Justice and Peace, Georgetown University