At AAA 2017 in Washington, DC I presented a paper ‘Investigating language practices and ideologies with and within museums and preschools’ as part of a double panel on The Anthropology of Education Matters’ in Informal Learning Contexts. As always, the AAAs were an opportunity to reconnect with far-flung friends. This photo shows me with Dr. Marilyn Merritt, a linguistic anthropologist at George Washington University whose work has inspired me since my graduate student days.
I love this photo and comment by Leslie Moore! whose work is fabulous! I am thrilled to be cited by her and to have shared (and hope will continue to share) important interests in socialization, education, Africa, service encounters and encounters in public places generally….
Wishing Leslie and all her students and colleagues and friends and family all the best always!
Marilyn Merritt (December 2019 when I first saw this!!! though I remember well when it was taken at the AAA meetings in Washington, DC)