Catherine Rhodes

Assistant Professor
Latin American and Iberian Institute; Educational Linguistics; Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences

Photo: Catherine Rhodes

Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology

At UNM since 
2017
Email: 
rhodesc@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 
Website/s:
 https://unm.academia.edu/CatherineRhodes

Recent Courses:

  • Language and Culture (ANTH 310, cross-listed with CJ 319 and LING 359)
  • Topics in Ethnology: Anthropology of Education (ANTH 340/540)
  • Topics in Ethnology: Politics of Language in Latin America (ANTH 340/530)
  • Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTH 510)
  • Proposal Writing (ANTH 530)
  • Scale (ANTH 530)
  • Indigeneity and Modernity (ANTH 530) 

 

On leave 2024-2025 as U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Mexico


 


 

Education:

BA, Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001)

MA, Social Sciences (specialization linguistic anthropology), University of Chicago (2009)

PhD, Anthropology and Education, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
Dissertation: “Making Maya Linguistics, Making Maya Linguists: The Production of Maya Scientific Expertise and Models of Personhood in the Yucatan Today”

Research:

Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, language diversity and cognition, language ideologies, linguistic purism, social identification, narrative, discourse, scale, Indigeneity, modernity, anthropology of education. Research regions: Mexico; Yucatan peninsula; U.S. Mexican diaspora

Recent Publications:

Rhodes, C. (forthcoming Jan. 2025). Undoing Modernity: Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan. Austin: University of Texas Press. 
Rhodes, C. (forthcoming summer 2024). ¿Más allá de lo maya y lo moderno? [Beyond Maya and modern?] Mesoamérica 62/63.
 
Rhodes, C. (2023). Language Ideologies. In M. Aldenderfer (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press, 2018—. Article published and last modified December 13, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.573 
 
Rhodes, C. (2021). Citation (Direct and Indirect). In J. Stanlaw, International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley. (published online Dec. 2020; published in print Jan. 2021) DOI: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0051
 
Rhodes, C. (2020). Dually authenticated and doubly modern: Institutionalizing jach maaya in the Yucatan today. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. DOI: 10.1111/jola.12278
 
Rhodes, C. and Bloechl, C. (2020). Speaking Maya, Being Maya: Ideological and Institutional Mediations of Language in Contemporary Yucatan. In S. Brunn & R. Kehrein (Eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map, pp. 861-883. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_215 
 
Rhodes, C., Clonan-Roy, K., & Wortham, S. (2020). Making language ‘academic’: Language ideologies, enregisterment, and ontogenesis. Language and Education, special issue. G. Thompson and B. Jensen (Eds.). DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2020.1797771
Wortham, S., Nichols, B., Clonan-Roy, K., & Rhodes, C. (2020). Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions. London: Bloomsburg Academic. DOI: 10.5040/9781350181342 Available via open access
 
Rhodes, C., Pomol Cahum, I. and Chan Dzul, M.O. (2018). Exploración lexicográfica de seis diccionarios del maya yucateco [Lexicographic exploration of six Yucatec Maya dictionaries]. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada 36(68), 9-57. DOI: 10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2018.68.861