Chaise Ladousa
Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology
Hamilton University
United States of America
Biography
Chaise LaDousa has conducted field research in North India studying languages and the role they play in education and India’s rapidly changing political economy. Another project has focused on the importance of fun in expressive culture in institutions of higher education in the United States. In addition to publishing numerous professional articles, he is the author of Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky: Education, Language and Social Class in Contemporary India, published in 2014, and Signs of Play: Faith, Race, and Sex in a College Town, published in 2011. He attended the college of the University of Chicago and received his doctorate from Syracuse University.
Research Interest
Linguistic anthropology, anthropology of institutions, nationalism, anthropology of education, political economy, gender, visual language, India, United States
Publications
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CHAISE LADOUSA (2010) “On Mother and Other Tongues: Sociolinguistics, Schools, and Language Ideology in Northern India. Language Sciences 32: 602-14.
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CHAISE LADOUSA (2013) “Language Management/Labor,†with Bonnie Urciuoli, Annual Review of Anthropology 42: 175-90.
