Anthropology Department

Michael Wroblewski

Visiting Assistant Professor

Michael Wroblewski received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2010. His research in Amazonian Ecuador combines cultural and linguistic anthropological approaches to the study of indigeneity, ethnolinguistic identity, and power and inequality. He examines the local articulation of national multiculturalist policies by members of Amazonian Kichwa communities, who are currently working to revitalize their native culture and language. His research contributes to a broader study of indigenous experiences within the contemporary Latin American sociopolitical order, focusing on the politics of language shift, planning, and ideology, interculturality, and self-representation in indigenous media.

In addition to his research in Latin America, Dr. Wroblewski has contributed to the ongoing study of regional variation in African American English (AAE) in the United States. His research in this area combines discourse and sociophonetic analyses of recorded speech from bilingual southern Louisiana, focusing on the connections between vowel phonology and racial identity.

Publications:
Forthcoming. Amazonian Kichwa Proper: Ethnolinguistic Domain in Pan-Indian Ecuador. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Spring 2012.

2011. Uneven Voices: Languages of Interculturality in Amazonian Ecuador. In Politics of Interculturality, eds. F. Dervin, A. Gajardo, and A. Lavanchy, pp. 47-70. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2010. Mapping a Dialect “Mixtury”: Acoustic Innovations in African American Vowels in Southern Louisiana. (Lead author with Thea R. Strand and Sylvie Dubois). In African American English Speakers and their Participation in Local Sound Changes: A Comparative Study, Publication of the American Dialect Society #94. Eds. Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Erik Thomas, 48-72. Durham: Duke Univ. Press.  

2010. Words, Woods, Woyds: Variation and Accommodation in Schwar Realization among African American, White, and Houma Men in Southern Louisiana. (Co-author with Thea R. Strand and Mary K. Good). Journal of English Linguistics 38(3): 211-229.

Contact Information

Postal mail:
Michael Wroblewski
P.O. Box 7807
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone:
Email: wroblem@wfu.edu