Judith T. Irvine (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1973). Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor and Chair, Anthropology. Linguistic Anthropology. Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization. Africa.
| jti@umich.edu |

Alaina Lemon (Ph.D., Chicago, 1996). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ethnology, socio-cultural, Performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology. Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-Socialist states.
| amlemon@umich.edu | webpage |

Bruce Mannheim (Ph.D., Chicago, 1983). Professor, Anthropology. Linguistic anthropology, the politics of language use, social theory, poetics and narrative, historical ethnography; Andean South America. On leave Fall 2008
| mannheim@umich.edu | webpage |

Barbra A. Meek (Ph.D. University of Arizona 2001) Associate Professor, Anthropology. Child language socialization and acquisition, endangered and/or dormant language issues, linguistic theory and Athabaskan linguistics. North America.
| bameek@umich.edu |