Rachel George

Rachel George

Department of Anthropology

Whitman College

345 Boyer Avenue

Walla Walla, WA 99362

CURRENT POSITION

2015-Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College

EDUCATION

2014Ph.D., Anthropology, UCLA

Dissertation: Pride and Pragmatism: Linguistic and Political Ambivalence in the Everyday Lives of Serbian Students and Teachers. (Professor Alessandro Duranti, Chair).

2009M.A., Anthropology, UCLA

Thesis: “Work it into Your Life Somehow”: Language and Political Socialization in Dual-Earner Los Angeles Families. (Professor Alessandro Duranti, Chair)

2005B.A, Anthropology, New York University, magna cum laude

PUBLICATIONS

Under review‘Allies always used us:’ Agency, Futility, and Ambivalence in Talk about Serbian History.

In PressDuranti, Alessandro and Rachel George. Language and Anthropology. In Waugh, L.L., M. Monville-Burston, and J. Joseph, eds.Cambridge History of Linguistics.

2016Reluctant Bureaucracy: Accounts, Narrative, and Negotiation in Serbian High

School Classrooms. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 39(S1): 54 – 73.

2014Book Note: Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, and Carla Jonsson (eds.), Language Mixing and Code-switching in Writing: Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. viii, 275. Hb. $130. Language in Society43(1): 125-126.

2013“What’s a Vendetta?”: Political Socialization in the Everyday Interactions of Los Angeles Families. Discourse and Society 24(1): 46 – 65.

2013Gervais, M. M., Kline, M., Ludmer, M., George R., & Manson, J. H. The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationships.Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,280(1757).

INVITED TALKS

2016“Pride and Pragmatism: The Roots of Euro-Ambivalence in Belgrade, Serbia.” The European Union Center at Scripps College.

OTHER ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2016From the Ottomans to the Internet: Language (re)standardization in Serbia. American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

2015TrebaseSnaći ('You have to manage'): Agency, Futility, and Ambivalence in Talk about Serbian History. AAA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

2015Ja bih glasala. . .(‘I would vote. . .’): Conditionals and the construction of a discourse of futility in Belgrade, Serbia. 21st Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO). University of California, Santa Barbara.

2014Is Hipster the New Anti-nationalist?: Irony, Sincerity, and Indexical Ambiguity in Serbian Online Publics. AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2013Everyday Bureaucracy: Accounts and negotiation a Serbian high school classroom. 19th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO). University of California, Santa Barbara.

2013From War to Memes: The Changing Uses and Meanings of Serbian Cyrillic. Symposium about Language and Society – Austin (SALSA). University of Texas at Austin.

2012Status Quo?: Constructing Youth Identities on Facebook. AAA Annual Meetings, San Francisco.

2011Keyboards and Controversies: The Shifting Meanings of Orthographic Choice Among Serbian Youth. AAA Annual Meetings, Montreal, Ontario, CA.

2008Work it Into Your Life Somehow: Parenting and the Moral Work of Citizen Engagement in Dual-Earner Los Angeles Families.” AAA Meetings, San Francisco, CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Whitman College

2015-presentAssistant Professor of Anthropology

Courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthro 102), Anthropology of New Media (Anthro 325), Language and Culture (Anthro 317), Ethnographic Methods in Research and Writing (Anthro 339), Applied Theory Seminar (Anthro 490), Language and Nationalism (Anthro 347A)

University of California, Los Angeles:

2015 Dean’s Lecturer on Social Research. The Anthropology of Children’s Talk: A Practicum in Qualitative Data Analysis and Writing.

Fall 2014Lecturer, Language and Culture in the Digital Age (Anthropology 147/2).

2014 Lecturer, Language in Culture (Anthropology 140), Summer Sessions.

2012-2014Lecturer, Culture and Communication (Anthropology 33), Summer Sessions.

2011-2012Teaching Assistant, Culture and Communication (Anthropology 33)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2011-2014Graduate Student Researcher, Anthropology, UCLA.

Professor and Dean of Social Sciences, Alessandro Duranti

2012-13Research Assistant, Ethnographic Interviewer, Scripps College

Professor Lara Deeb.

2012-13Interviewer on Metaphor Judgments, Data Analyst

Werthwhile Consulting, Los Angeles, CA.

2008-2010Conversational Data Coder, Anthropology, UCLA

Professor Joseph Manson

2007-2010Graduate Student Researcher, Sloan Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF), UCLA

OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

2006-2007Legal Assistant, American Civil Liberties Union, National Office, New York.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2013-2014Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division

2010-2011UCLA International Institute Fieldwork Fellowship Award

2010 Anthropology Research Grant, UCLA

2009-2010Graduate Research Mentorship Award, UCLA

2009Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA

2008Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA

2008Anthropology Research Grant, UCLA

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Whitman College

2016Representative, Student Life Committee

UCLA

2011- 2012Student Representative, Department of Anthropology Admissions Committee

2011-2012Student Representative, multiple planning committees,Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC)

2009-2010Secretary, Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA)

2007-2010Vice-Chair, Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC)

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian (conversational)

Italian (basic conversational)