{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lanita-jacobs\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:30:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lanita-jacobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          About Lanita Jacobs\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n            \n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>My research to date has been shaped by a scholarly interest in language as a mediator of African American culture and identity, and ethnography as a dynamic way of seeing and being in the world. As a linguistic anthropologist, I have pursued these mutual interests by conducting multisited ethnographies of African American women\u2019s hair care, African American children coping with Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury (ABI\/TBI), and African American standup comedy. My fieldwork across sites of hair care, hospitals, and humor has focused on the complex ways in which speakers socialize and construct identity, expertise, and other stances that are essential to their everyday lives. In each of these studies, I have employed longitudinal fieldwork and discourse analysis to examine the verbal and nonverbal \u201cwork\u201d speakers do to negotiate how they see the world and their place in it, as well as the stakes embedded in their engagements. Findings from these respective studies have been presented in several top tier journals in Anthropology and national and international conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lanita-jacobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/225\/2023\/11\/Jacobs-Profile-Pic-2023-1800x1800-1-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lanita-jacobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/225\/2023\/11\/Jacobs-Profile-Pic-2023-1800x1800-1-1280x1707.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lanita-jacobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/225\/2023\/11\/Jacobs-Profile-Pic-2023-1800x1800-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Lanita Jacobs portait\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--contact-details \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--contact-details\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n          <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Contact\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n        \n      <\/div>\n    \n    \n      <div class=\"contacts-container\">\n\n        \n                      <div class=\"contact-card\">\n\n                              <h3>Lanita Jacobs, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n              \n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Department of Anthropology<br \/>\nUniversity of Southern California<br \/>\n3620 S. 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