Lynnette Arnold

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. 

Publications

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

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

Arnold, Lynnette. (2023). 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  

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

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

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