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Professor of Linguistics

Mary Bucholtz

Dr. Mary Bucholtz is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also a former Chair. At UCSB, she is the director of the Center for California Languages and Cultures, associate director and founding director of the School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society educational justice program, and associate director of the Mexican Indigenous Languages Promotion and Advocacy collective. In addition, she is affiliated with the departments of Anthropology, Education, Feminist Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, as well as the programs in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies. She was previously a faculty member in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Bucholtz is a sociocultural linguist specializing in language, race, gender, identity, and power in the United States, with a particular focus on educational and other institutional contexts. She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America as well as the recipient of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Award for Public Outreach and Community Service. She is the former coeditor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and has served on the editorial board of over a dozen journals. She was one of the founders of the International Gender and Language Association and served as a member of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Language and Social Justice Task Group, among numerous other committees of professional organizations. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Bucholtz received her BA in Classics in 1990 from Grinnell College and her MA in Linguistics in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also received her PhD in 1997. 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7343-3374