Research
CLASP students and faculty are engaged in a range of research projects and initiatives that have led to distinctive theses, dissertations, and publications in top-tier journals and edited volumes. CLASP members present at a range of competitive conferences nationally and internationally, showcasing their innovative work.
Recetly, Students from CU Boulder’s program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) joined their advisor Professor Kira Hall to deliver a well received panel at the AAA/CASCA conference in Vancouver, Canada, November 2019. Entitled “Language and Middleclassness,” the panel originated from a Spring 2019 CU Boulder seminar of the same name, taught by Prof. Hall. Seven students submitted abstracts of work conducted in the seminar and were invited by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology to present papers.
Pictured from left to right: Gwendolen Vandenburg (supporter), Maureen Kosse (presenter), Tammy Rae Matthews (presenter), Andrew Ting (presenter), Olivia Marrese (presenter), Rebecca Lee (presenter), Velda Khoo (presenter), and Kira Hall (chair). Kim Strong also presented a paper but is not present in this photo.
Below right: CLASP students, former and current, attend in Siem Reap, Cambodia. From left: Chad Nilep, Velda Khoo, Chu Paing.
Below from left: CLASP students Khalil B. Thomas, Chu Paing, Andrew Ting, Olivia Hirschey Marrese, and Mabia Camargo join Djankow Matthew at in Botswana.
Refining research interests
The CLASP certificate was essential to my research journey. In fact, it was by taking a selection of theory based courses that I refined my research interests into personal projects that are meaningful to me. The instructors host courses that provide students with the opportunity to delve into experimental methods and essential linguistic classics from the past.
-Maya Stephens
MA Linguistics 2023
CLASP Facts
Current CLASP student Kate Arnold-Murray earned an honorable mention in the John J. Gumperz Graduate Student Essay contest at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association for her paper advised by Dr. Kira Hall on scalar normativities constructed by the 2020 Settle for Biden political social media campaign.