Lynnette Arnold

Linguistic anthropology: power, inequality, media, multimodality; medical anthropology: care, embodiment, habitual practices; migration and transnationalism; family and kinship; pedagogy: community engagement, social justice; El Salvador and the United States 

Dr. Lynnette Arnold is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a linguistic anthropologist with a primary area of focus in the Americas, where she has conducted research on language, care, and migration. Dr. Arnold works to create interdisciplinary conversations about the social power of language, demonstrating that attention to linguistic practices can generate consequential new understandings into pressing current issues. This approach is exemplified in her role as co-director of the Demystifying Language Project, an initiative that works to make scholarship on the politics of language available in public high schools. 

2024 Arnold, Lynnette. Living Together across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families. Oxford University Press. Studies in the Anthropology of Language. 

2023    Arnold, Lynnette and Kristine Køhler Mortensen. Mobilizing Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Gender and Language, 17(4), 317-328. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.26689 

2023 Arnold, Lynnette. National Heroes or Dangerous Failures: Mobilizing Gender in Salvadoran Migration Discourse to Create Relational Neoliberal Personhood. Gender and Language, 17(4), 412-432. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.22687  

2021 Arnold, Lynnette. Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co-Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families. American  Anthropologist 123(1): 137–149. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13517

2020   Arnold, Lynnette. Cross-Border Communication and the Enregisterment of Collective Frameworks for Care. Medical Anthropology 39(7): 624–637. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1717490  

2020   Arnold, Lynnette and Steven P. Black. How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care. Medical Anthropology 39(7): 573–581. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1814285 

Language, Culture, and Communication (Anth 105) 

Language and Health (Anth 290) 

Methods in Linguistic Anthropology (Anth 360) 

Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology (Anth 691A) 

Care: Doing, Knowing, Being (Anth 497DK/697DK) 

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara 
• M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 
• B.A., Mills College