Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2003 (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Cavanaugh is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist, and her geographical area is northern Italy. She has done extensive field work in Bergamo, Italy, on language shift and social change, language ideology, gender, accent, material culture, food, the value of the local, and tradition and modernity.
Books and Publications
"Entering Into Politics: Interdiscursivity, Register, Stance, and Vernacular in Northern Italy." Language in Society 41.1: 73-95. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
"Intersections of Gender and Endangered Languages: A Commentary." Special issue of Gender and Language 6.2: 369-78. Invited commentary. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"Language Ideologies and Language Attitudes: A Linguistic Anthropological Perspective." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Cavanaugh, Jillian and Dr. Shalini Shanker. "Language Materiality in Global Capitalism." Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 355-69. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
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. 8.1: 18-31. (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: 114-39. (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
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Bridges Across Brooklyn Faculty Fellows Program. Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY 41 Research Award. University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY 40 Research Award. University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award. University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award. University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Whiting Faculty Fellowship. Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
NEH Summer Stipend. National Endowment for the Humanities. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award. University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Commodifying Heritage: Language and the Formation of Value Among Northern Italian Food Producers." SLA-invited panel: Language Commodification and Circulation in Global Capitalism. 111th American Anthropological Annual meetings. San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Racializing Heritage: Language, Food, and Facebook in Northern Italy." CUNY Graduate Center Linguistics Ph.D. / M.A. Program. Sociolinguistics Lunch Series. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Anything Can Happen on Youtube (Or Can It?): Endangered Language and New Media." Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Language Ideologies and Language Attitudes: A Linguistic Anthropological Perspective." Perception and Attitude Panel, 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE). Freiburg, Germany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"When Is a Kebab Not Just a Kebab? A Political Poetics of Place, Food and Citizenship in Northern Italy." 110th American Anthropology Annual Meetings. Montreal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Living Memory. Valorizzare la lingua locale significa rivitalizarla o trasformarla in un pezzo da museo? I risultati di una ricerca sulla lingua bergamasca del territorio e della città." (Living Memory. Does valorizing the local language mean revitalizing it or transforming it into an object in a museum? Research results on the Bergamasco language of the territory and the city.) Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti di Bergamo. Bergamo, Italy. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"New Media, Familiar Grooves: The Circulation and Contraction of a Northern Italian Vernacular." 109th American Anthropology Annual Meetings. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Speaking of Place: Campanilismo as Linguistic Practice in Northern Italy." Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies Conference. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Interdiscursivity, Register, and the Production of Localism: Language and Dialect in Northern Italy." New York Area Linguistic Anthropology Working Group. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009
"Laying and Avoiding Interdiscursive 'Traps': Registering the Local in Contemporary Italy." 108th American Anthropology Annual Meetings. Philadelphia. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Locally Speaking: The Meaning and Role of Dialect in 21st-century Northern Italy." Italian Studies Seminar. Columbia University, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"The Value of Narrative." Phi Beta Kappa Commencement Ceremony Speaker. Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Celebrating Culture: Local Festivals and the Representational Economy of Nostalgia in Northern Italy." 107th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Incomplete Standardization and the Production of Localism: Language and Dialect in Northern Italy." Annual conference of the Council for European Studies. Chicago. (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, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Producing the Past, Consuming the Present: Language as Commodity in Northern Italy." 106th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Linguistic Ambiguity, Social Ambivalence, and Cultural Authenticity: Bad Language in Northern Italy." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. San Jose, Calif. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
