KD Thompson is a linguistic anthropologist and discourse analyst who explores the intersections of language, power, and identity in Muslim communities in East Africa and North America. Their research delves into how language shapes religious …
History, Culture, and Language
Mark Vareschi
Mark Vareschi is an associate professor of English. His first book, Everywhere and Nowhere, explored anonymous publication in eighteenth-century Britain. His current book project explores the intellectual and rhetorical histories of surveillance technologies. A speaker …
Jess Waggoner
Jess Waggoner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Waggoner’s research and teaching interests span U.S. literature and culture, feminist disability studies, queer …
Kevin Walters
Kevin Walters works in Public Affairs at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) where he has served as a researcher, historian, archivist, and executive communicator since 2011. He completed a PhD in history from the …
Anja Wanner
Professor Anja Wanner has a wide-ranging scholarly expertise in English linguistics. Professor Wanner has a distinguished teaching record at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as extensive leadership and governance experience at the departmental and …
Calvin Watts
Calvin Watts is the academic advisor for social science majors at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. As an amateur historian, he studies how Theodore Roosevelt’s family relationships reveal the man behind his public personas.
Kelly Wright
Dr. Wright is a Black Biracial cisgender woman from Appalachia. She is an experimental sociolinguist researching the creation and maintenance of language ideologies over time and in real time. She is a scholar-activist conducting policy-driven …