Judith Irvine

Judith Irvine
Born
Judith Temkin

(1945-03-10) March 10, 1945 (age 79)
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.)
Occupations
  • Anthropologist
  • linguist
  • professor

Judith Temkin Irvine (born March 10, 1945) is the Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she researches language use in African social life to create social hierarchy.[1][2]

Irvine earned her Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Pennsylvania.[3] She began teaching in 1972 in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1999.[2] Irvine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005,[4] and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.[5]

References

  1. ^ Mori, Ishi (May 7, 2016). "Faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. ^ a b "Judith Temkin Irvine". National Academy of Sciences.
  3. ^ "Judith T. Irvine". U-M LSA Anthropology. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  4. ^ "Judith T. Irvine". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  5. ^ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved May 14, 2016.