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Lanita Jacobs

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology
Lanita Jacobs
Email jacobshu@usc.edu Office 3620 S. Vermont Ave Office Phone (213) 740-1909

Research & Practice Areas

(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999) Associate Professor of Anthropology and ASE: African American women’s discourse; anthropology of the body; language & identity in diasporas; language & gender.

Education

  • Ph.D. Linguistic Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/1999
  • M.A. Linguistic Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 8/1996
  • B.A. [Individual Major] Issues in Urban Poverty and Public Policy (Specializations: Education, Intergroup Relations, and Conflict Resolution, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/1993