Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
mcentire@umich.edu
Office Information:
phone: 3232066138
Linguistic;
Anthropology
About
Field(s) of Study
- QUESTIONS: How can the familiar be presented in novel ways? How can new associations and meanings come to be shared and understood as such? What can "phatic experts" (professional influencers, professional people-readers, professional communicators and conveyers of various sorts) teach us about these processes? And how are these processes currently playing out in the context of women's movements in West Africa?
- THEORETICAL INTERESTS:
- The dynamics of attention, awareness, and salience in semiosis
- Intersections between semiotic ideologies, personhood, and social cognition
- The role of bodily phenomena (sensations, emotions) in organizing social phenomena
- Symbolic systems, symbolic logic, and the limits of constructivism
- Intertextuality and interdiscursivity
- Interactionism, poetics & performativity, multimodality
- Media and performance
- Social change & social movements, networks
- Self & (eu)socialty
- Comparative feminisms & feminist anthropology, sex and gender
- Linguistic, semiotic, psychological, and cognitive anthropology
