Jennifer F. Reynolds is Professor of Anthropology and core member of the Linguistics Program as well as the undergraduate Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies Minor Program in the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. She studies both the constraining and enabling dimensions of language and discourse practices in the dialectics of family and community life and identity formation. Dr. Reynolds works within sociohistorical contexts marked by both internal and transnational migration that shape children and youths’ lives and life chances.
Her work in particular engenders the critical turn that language socialization studies have taken. In her publications she explores theoretically and empirically the myriad ways that “being” is experienced through unequal negotiations of “becoming” at different temporal and social scales.
Currently she serves on the Editorial Review Board for the International Pragmatics Association’s Journal Pragmatics. She served as an elected Board Member for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and chaired the steering committee for SLA’s 2018 inaugural conference. Dr. Reynolds also served two terms as Chair of the Department of Anthropology. She currently serves as the Linguistics Program Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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