Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
she/her
mcentire@umich.edu
Office Information:
phone: 323.206.6138
Linguistic;
Anthropology
Education/Degree:
PhD, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Michigan (in progress)
MA, Anthropology, University of Michigan
Graduate Certificate, African Studies, University of Michigan
MS, Applied Psychology, University of Southern California
BA, Psychology, University of Southern California; Media Studies minor
About
Field(s) of Study
Current work:
- Phaticity
- Multilingualism and language contact in francophone West Africa
- Interactionism, poetics & performativity, multimodality
- Intersections between semiotic ideologies, personhood, and social cognition
- Communication and globalization, communication and economics
- Media and performance, communications technologies
- Language and materiality
- Intertextuality and interdiscursivity
- Imitation and mimicry
- The dynamics of attention, awareness, and salience in semiosis
Additional interests:
- Human sociality and the evolution of communicative systems, self and (eu)socialty
- Symbolic systems, symbolic logic, and the limits of constructivism
- Embodied cognition
- The role of bodily phenomena (sensations, emotions, "affect") in organizing social phenomena
- "Flow" and human performance
- Mass psychology, crowd psychology, group psychology
- Psychophysics, sensation and perception, vision, sound and "vibrations"
- Social change and social movements, networks, coventionalization processes
- Comparative feminisms and feminist anthropology, sex and gender
- Histories of science and technology, especially as they pertain to the social sciences, communication, linguistics, and technocratic governance
- Linguistic, semiotic, psychological, and cognitive anthropology
