• (My thematic interests include linguistic and media ideologies; discourse, circulation, and publics; semiotics; theories of modernity; and historical consciousness, knowledge production, and the negotiation of social belonging. I)
  • (assess the role played by ideologies of language in the constitution of Buginese transmigrant identities and diasporic imaginaries in Malaysia and South Sulawesi.)
  • functional morphology, mammalian phylogeny, and early primate evolution. My primary goal in paleontological research is to improve our understanding of how morphological features functioned in the past, and what role they played in the interaction between mammals and the selective demands of their environments. I gather morphological and functional data by comparing the skeletal anatomy of fossil mammals with similar extant forms, and use these data to reconstruct behaviors such as locomotory habits. )
dec 16 2011 ∞
jan 15 2012 +