Anna Bax Email & Phone Number

I am an interdisciplinary sociolinguistic researcher with a strong moral drive to engage applied social science research methods in the service of social transformation. I have been conducting qualitative and quantitative linguistic research for nine years, with a particular expertise in discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, and quantitative sociolinguistics. I received my PhD in Linguistics from UC Santa Barbara in Summer 2020, with interdisciplinary PhD emphases in Language, Interaction, and Social Organization and Applied Linguistics, as well as a Certificate in College and University Teaching. I have a longstanding interest in the analysis of framing political discourse, as demonstrated by a paper I published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in which I analyzed the social effect of the euphemization of racial slurs in televised news media, social media, and online discourse. As an extroverted “people person”, I am skilled in the interpersonal aspects of data collection; I am very comfortable conducting interviews with individuals and groups from many distinct social spheres. For more information about my academic and pedagogical work, you can visit my personal website at annabax.org.