People

LISO Faculty, Visiting Scholars & Alumni

Below is a list of the LISO faculty and their areas of interest and specializations. Click on names of faculty to go to their departmental web pages for further contact information.

Charles Bazerman

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

teaching of writing, writing in the disciplines, history of literacy genre theory, activity theory, genre theory

bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

http://education.ucsb.edu/people/bazerman.html

Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language and gender, African American English discourse

bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/

Patricia Clancy

Department of Linguistics

psycholinguistics, child language, discourse, Japanese and Korean linguistics

pclancy@linguistics.ucsb.edu

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/clancy.html

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Sociology of Education, sociolinguistics and literacy, gender socialization

cook-gumperz@education.ucsb.edu

http://education.ucsb.edu/people/cook-gumperz.html

John W. Du Bois

Department of Linguistics

linguistic anthropology, interactional linguistics, stance, dialogic syntax, spoken corpus construction / English corpus linguistics, Mayan linguistics

dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/dubois.html

John J. Gumperz

Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S.

Amy Kyratzis

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

language and communicative development, gender differences in langauge and cognition, language Socialization, cognitive science

kyratzis@education.ucsb.edu

http://education.ucsb.edu/people/kyratzis.html

Gene Lerner

Department of Sociology

conversation analysis, social aspects of grammar, social life of very young children

lerner@soc.ucsb.edu

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/lerner.htm

Ikuyo Morimoto

Visiting Faculty/Researcher

Graduate school of Language, Communication, & Culture,
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

ikuyom@kwansei.ac.jp

Jason Raley

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

trusting relations, social differences, learning, education, cognitive science

raley@education.ucsb.edu

http://education.ucsb.edu/people/raley.html

Geoffrey Raymond

Department of Sociology

the organization of talk in interaction, sociology of science and technology, sociology of mass communication

graymond@soc.ucsb.edu

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/raymond.htm

Sandra A. Thompson

Department of Linguistics

interactional linguistics, emergent grammar, interaction and grammar

sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/thompson.html

Kevin Whitehead

Department of Sociology

conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, membership categories, race and racism, conflict and violence

kwhitehead@soc.ucsb.edu

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/kevin-whitehead

Tom Wilson

Department of Sociology

conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, interaction and social structure

wilson@soc.ucsb.edu

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty.htm

Don Zimmerman

Department of Sociology

conversation analysis, emergency calls to the police, social life of very young children, talk and identity

dzimmerman@soc.ucsb.edu

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/zimmerman.htm