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Jillian Cavanaugh

Assc Professor   Department: Anthropology and Archaeology   Location: 3301d James Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x3803   Fax: 718-951-3169   Email:

Dr. Cavanaugh did her undergraduate work at Vassar College, where she did an independent major in language and culture, and was elected into Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at New York University. She taught at Loyola University in Chicago before joining the Anthropology and Archaeology Department at Brooklyn College in 2004. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - 2003 (ANTHROPOLOGY) Areas of Expertise: Dr. Cavanaugh is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist, whose geographical area is Italy. She has done extensive field work in Bergamo, Italy, on language shift and social change, language ideology, gender, accent, material culture, food, tradition, and modernity. Books and Publications Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics in a Northern Italian Town. Book Manuscript Blackwell Publishing. (Books and Publications: Book) 2009 The Questione della Lingua: The Incomplete Standardization of Italian. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. V.8, N.1:18-31, 2008. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Making Salami, Producing Bergamo: The Production and Transformation of Value in a Northern Italian Town. Ethnos 72(2):114-139. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Little Women and Vital Champions: Gendered Language Shift in a Northern Italian Town. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 16(2): 194-210. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Interdiscursivity, Register, and the Production of Localism: Language and Dialect in Northern Italy. Paper presented to New York Area Linguistic Anthropology Working Group. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009 Locally speaking: The meaning and role of dialect in 21st century northern Italy. Paper presented at the Italian Studies Seminar, Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 Celebrating Culture: Local Festivals and the Representational Economy of Nostalgia in Northern Italy. Presented at 107th AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 Incomplete Standardization and the Production of Localism: Language and Dialect in Northern Italy. Paper presented at Council for European Studies, 2008 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 The Value of Place in Particular: Memory, Geography and Aesthetics. Given as part of Italian Heritage and Culture Month at Brooklyn College, CUNY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Producing the Past, Consuming the Present: Language as Commodity in Northern Italy. Paper presented at 106th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Linguistic Ambiguity, Social Ambivalence, and Cultural Authenticity: Bad Language in Northern Italy. Paper presented at 2006 American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, California. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006