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Education

1972 B.A. Mathematics (Psychology Minor), Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA.

1987 Ph.D. Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Employment and Positions

1996-pres. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
    2003-        William Benton Professor, Committee on Human Development, Department of Psychology, and the College.
    2002          Interim Dean, Social Sciences Division (January-June).
    1999-02    Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, Deputy Dean, Social Sciences Division.
    1998-99    Chair, Committee on Human Development.
    1996-02    Professor, Committee on Human Development, Department of Psychology, and the College;
                     Associate Faculty Member, Department of Anthropology; Member, Center for Latin American Studies.

1992-2003 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    2002-03    Visiting Fellow, Language and Cognition Group.
    1996-97    Visiting Fellow, Language and Cognition Group.
    1992-94    Visiting Fellow (1-6/92, 4-5/93, 4-5/94), Cognitive Anthropology Research Group.

1989-1996 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
    1994-96    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Member, Graduate Groups in Psychology and Folklore;
                     Consulting Curator, University Museum.
    1989-94    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Consulting Curator, University Museum.

1987-1989 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. William Rainey Harper Instructor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division;
                     Faculty Associate, Committee on Human Development.

1987-1988 University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Adjunct Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of
                     Education.

1981-1987 Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL. Research Fellow and Director of Programs in Linguistics and
                     Psychology.

Research Interests                                                                                     Top    | Home

Linguistic anthropology: language and thought; linguistic relativity; language and culture; language socialization; language in education; cognitive constraints on linguistic variation.

Psychological anthropology: culture and cognition; comparative child development; middle childhood; culture and self; emergence of self-consciousness; cognitive anthropology.

Mesoamerican culture and language forms: Mayan languages, verbal art, and discursive practices; religion; life cycle rituals; age and sex roles; structure of daily social interaction.

Social science theory and method: cross-cultural comparison; scientific metalanguage; naturalistic, ecologically valid, and quasi-experimental methods.

Research Awards and Honors                                                                  Top    | Home

1972-75    National Institute of Child Health and Development, Training Fellowship (Personality Processes Program).

1974         University of Chicago, "Distinction" (highest mark) on Doctoral Prelim Exams.

1977-78    Doherty Charitable Foundation, Fellowship for Advanced Study in Latin America.

1977-79    Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, International Doctoral Research
                  Fellowship, Latin America and Caribbean Program.

1978-80    National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service, Individual National Research Service Award for
                  Dissertation Research.

1979          University of Chicago Edson Keith Fund for Cultural Studies, award for dissertation research.

1984          Tinker Foundation, Summer Field Research Travel Grant.

1988          University of Chicago, Marc Perry Galler Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the Division of Social Sciences for
                  1987-88.

1988-89    Spencer Foundation, Small Grants Program, for research on linguistic diversity and cognitive development.

1991-94    Spencer Foundation, Major Grants Program, $294,000 award over 44 months for research on language diversity
                 and cognitive development.

1996         University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Fellowship, for research on
                 development

1998        Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. (Invited.).

1999-00   National Institutes of Health Research Training Grant "Culture and Mental Health," PI.

2002        University of Chicago, Center for Teaching and Learning Small Grant for Instructional Improvement for
                preparation of  materials to teach modern spoken Yucatec.

2003-04  National Institutes of Health Research Training Grant “Culture and Mental Health,” ActingPI.

2004       Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA.  (Re-invited.)

2005-08  National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to the U. Chicago Language Laboratories and Archives for "Digital
               Preservation of Mesoamerican Linguistic Archives," $140,000, Co-PI.

2006       John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award, for a project on "The Impact of Language
               Differences on Intellectual Development."

2006      University of Chicago, Center for Teaching and Learning Small Grant for Instructional Improvement for preparation
              of materials to teach modern spoken Yucatec.

2007-08 Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (subcontract)
              Grant, “Digitization of the Chicago Archive of Indigenous Literatures of Latin America,” $12,000.

2007-08 Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Grant, “Pilot Project: Developing a Graduated Literary Anthology in
              Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages,” $5,900.

2007-10 Department of Education International Research and Studies Grant (P017A070042), “Digital Chicago Maya: Modern
              Spoken Yucatec and K’iche’,” $564,000.

2008-09 Social Sciences Divisional Research Seed Grant (Co-PI), “Transforming a Photographic Archive for Integrated Digital
              Research: A Preliminary Exploration for Grant Preparation.” $2,200.

2008-09 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, Palo Alto, CA (sabbatical).
  

Field Research                                                                                           Top    | Home

1974-75  México (June-August 1974) and Guatemala (June-August 1975), Spanish language training and visits to potential
                field sites.

1977-80  Yucatán, México (December 1977-August 1979, July-August 1980 and November-December 1980), dissertation
                research on language and thought. Support: SSRC, NIMH, Doherty, and the University of Chicago.

1982-84  Yucatán, México (June 1982-June 1983 and June-September 1984), research on speech pragmatics, family
                relations, and religion. Support: Fulbright award to Suzanne Gaskins.

1988        Yucatán, México (July-August 1988), research on language and cognitive development.  Support: the Spencer
                Foundation.

1990       Yucatán, México (July-August 1990), research on spatial language. Support: the Max Planck Society.

1991-94  Yucatán, México (July-August 1991, July-August 1992, March-August 1993, June-August 1994), research on
                language and cognitive development. Support: the Spencer Foundation.

1996       Yucatán, México (July-August 1996, December 1996), research on language acquisition and religious ritual.
                Support: the Max Planck Society.

1998-08   Yucatán, México (June-July 1998, July-August 2000), research on children’s interactions and narrative;
                (July-August 2001), preparation of language learning materials; (July-August 2002), research on language
                and cognitive development; (June-July 2004) implementation of nonverbal assessment procedures (June-July 2005, 
                August 2006), research on noun roots (June 2008). Support: the University of Chicago.

Field Languages Yucatec Maya, Spanish.

Courses Taught                                                                                         Top    | Home

1987-88    University of Illinois: Advanced Educational Psychology; Advanced Developmental Psychology.

1987-89    University of Chicago: Self, Culture, and Society (Political Economy; Individual and Society; Interpretation
                  of Cultures); Language Diversity and Thought.

1989-95    University of Pennsylvania: Language and Culture; Psychology and Culture; Maya History and
                  Ethnography; Language, Culture, and Self; Yucatec Maya Language; Language Socialization; Language
                  and Thought.

1997-02    University of Chicago: Language, Culture and Thought; Language Socialization; Theories of Self; Middle
                  Childhood; Self, Culture, and Society (Political Economy); Spoken Yucatec Maya I & II; Linguistic Anthropology
                  Seminar (Evidentials, Evidence, and Authority); Topics in Language, Culture, and Thought.

Professional Memberships                                                                         Top    | Home

1981-        American Anthropological Association.

1981-        Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

1985-        Society for Psychological Anthropology (1999-03, Executive Board).

1991-        Society for Linguistic Anthropology (1995-96, Secretary-Treasurer).

1995-        American Ethnological Society.

Professional Service                                                                                     Top    | Home

1992-        Member, Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press series Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of
                  Language.

1996-        Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

1997-00    Member, Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press series on Psychological Anthropology.

2000-        Member, Fachbeirat [Scientific Council], Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Reviewer for University of Chicago Press, University of Texas Press, Cambridge University Press, American Ethnologist, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Human Development, Cognition, Psychological Science, Linguistic Inquiry, Cognitive Development, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Publications: Books                                                                                     Top    | Home

1992 Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, No. 12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Paper and hard.

1992 Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, No. 13). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hard; paper: 1996.

1993 Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hard. (Editor and author of introductory materials; contributor of two substantive papers [listed separately below].)

in prep. Grammatical Categories and Cognitive Development: A Comparison of Yucatec Maya and American English (With Suzanne Gaskins) [tentative title].

Publications: Articles and Chapters                                                           Top    | Home

1979 Whorf and his critics: Linguistic and nonlinguistic influences on color memory. (With Richard Shweder.) American Anthropologist 81(3): 581-615.  Reprinted in R. W. Casson (ed.), Language, Culture, and Cognition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 133-63. (PDF)

1981 Comparing. Review of Marc H. Bornstein (ed.), Comparative Methods in Psychology (Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 1980). Contemporary Psychology 26(9): 701-2.

1985 Whorf's view of the linguistic mediation of thought. In E. Mertz and R. J. Parmentier (eds.), Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. New York: Academic Press, pp. 73-97. Reprintedin B. Blount (Ed.), Language Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings (2nd ed.). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1995, pp. 415-438.

1985 The historical relativity of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition 7(4): 103-8. (http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/oc85v7n4.PDF) 

1987 Vygotsky and Whorf: A comparative analysis. (With James V. Wertsch.) In M. Hickmann (ed.), Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought. New York: Academic Press, pp. 67-86. (PDF)

1988 The effects of incidental conversation on memory for focal colors. (With Richard Shweder.) American Anthropologist 90(4): 923-31. (PDF)

1988 The role of language in the development of representation: A comparison of the views of Piaget and Vygotsky. The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition 10(4): 99-103. (http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/oc88v10n4.PDF)

1989 Linguistic relativity and discourse about nuclear war. In G. Urban and B. Lee (eds.), Gender, Reason, and Nuclear Policy: Report of a Colloquium Held at the University of Chicago. Chicago: Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, No. 35, pp. 71-74.

1991 Benjamin Lee Whorf. In International Dictionary of Anthropologists. New York: Garland, pp. 756-758.

1993 Reflexive language in the human disciplines. In J. A. Lucy (ed.), Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-32. (PDF)

1993 Metapragmatic presentationals: Reporting speech with quotatives in Yucatec Maya. In J. A. Lucy (ed.), Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-125. (PDF)

1994 The role of semantic value in lexical comparison: Motion and position roots in Yucatec Maya. Linguistics 32(4/5): 623-656. (Special issue "Space in Mayan Languages" edited by J. Haviland and S. Levinson.)

1996 The scope of linguistic relativity: An analysis and review of empirical research. J.J. Gumperz and S.C. Levinson (eds.), Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-69.

1997 The linguistics of "color." In C.L. Hardin and L. Maffi (eds.), Color Categories in Thought and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 320-46.

1997 Linguistic relativity. Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 291-312. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc. (PDF)

1998 Discussion and commentary: Space in language and thought. Ethos 26:105-111. (Special Theme Issue: "Language, Space, and Culture," edited by E. Danziger.)

1998 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, vol. 8, pp. 470-473.

1999 Linguistic relativity. In R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 472-473.

1999 Reflexivity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2): 212-215. (Special Theme Issue "Language Matters in Anthropology" edited by Alessandro Duranti. Reissued as A. Duranti [ed.], Key Terms in Language and Culture, Blackwell Publishers, 2001, pp.208-211. Translated by Antonio Perri as Riflessività/Reflexivity, in A. Duranti [ed.], Culture e discorso. Un lessico per le scienze sociali. Roma: Meltemi Editore, 2001, pp. 307-12.)

2000 Introductory comments. In S. Niemeier and R. Dirven (eds.), Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. x-xxi.

2000 Systems of nominal classification: a concluding discussion. In G. Senft (ed.), Systems of Nominal Classification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 326-341.

2001 Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences: A comparative approach. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) In S. Levinson and M. Bowerman (eds.), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development. Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-283.

2001 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In N. Smelser and P. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science, Vol. 20, pp. 13486-13490. Reissued in electronic form: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/index.shtml.

2003 Interaction of language type and referent type in the development of nonverbal classification preferences. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) In D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.), Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.465-492.

2004 Language, culture, and mind.  In M. Achard and S. Kemmer (eds.), Language, Culture, and Mind. Stanford, CA: CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information) Publications [distributed by the University of Chicago Press], pp. 1-21.

2005 Through the window of language: assessing the influence of language diversity on thought.  Theoria 20 (3; no. 54), 299-309.  (Special Issue, ed. by J. Acero and F. Rodríguez-Consuegra.)

in press-a    Language Structure, Lexical Meaning, and Cognition: Whorf and Vygotsky Revisited.  In Barbara Malt and Philip Wolff (eds.), Words and the World. Oxford University Press.

in press-b Lenguaje y pensamiento: consecuencias cognitivas de la diversidad lingüistica [Language and thought: cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity].  In L. Rojo and A Delgado (eds.), Por los Confines del Lenguaje. Tusquets Editorial (Metatemas).

in press-c    Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. Language and Cognition: A Journal of Language and Cognitive Science, 2(1) [2010].

 

Popular Pieces and Media Coverage                                                       Top    | Home

1991 Yucatec . . . and the relation of language and thought.  Penn Language News 3[old series]: 3 & 15.

2002 Language and thinking.  Interview by Jeffrey Wood on Quirks and Quarks, a science radio program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Mp3 available at http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives/01-02/feb2302.htm  [23 February].

2002 A Way with Words: Do languages help mold the way we think?  A controversial idea from the 1930s is getting a second look.  By J.R. Minkel, Scientific American [On-line Version]. Available at http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=00009A6B-B402-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF  [25 March].

2002 Talking and Thinking.  The Chronicle of Higher Education.  Available to subscribers at http://chronicle.com/chronicle/v48/4829guide.htm   [29 March]

2002 Language and thought.  Interview by Gretchen Helfrich on Odyssey, a science radio program of the Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ.  Audio file at http://www.wbez.org/frames.asp?HeaderURL=../schedule/hd_sched_light.htm&BodyURL=../services/od_ra1.htm [29 May].

2002 The 468th Convocation Address at the University of Chicago: "Understanding perspectives."  The University of Chicago Record 37(2 [21 November]): 13-14.  Available at http://www.uchicago.edu/docs/education/record/pdfs/37-2.pdf [23 November].

2002 You are what you speak.  By Alison Motluk.  New Scientist 176(2371): 34.  Also at http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=1&id=mg176237.400  [30 November].

Papers Presented                                                                                           Top    | Home

1974
A methodological critique of Berlin and Kay's Basic Color Terms. Psychological Anthropology Discussion Group of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May.

1975
Cross-cultural differences in Müller-Lyer illusion susceptibility. Invited discussant, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Fourth Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 21-23 February.

1981
An empirical approach to the Whorfian hypothesis. Psycholinguistics Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 18 November.

Cultural factors in memory for color: The problem of usage. Symposium on Semantics, Ethnolinguistics, and Cognition, 80th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, CA, 3 December.

1982
Whorf's view of the linguistic mediation of thought. Symposium on Semiotic Mediation in Psychosocial Activity, 81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 5 December.

1983
Direct report of speech in Yucatec Maya. Symposium on Mayan Linguistics, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 20 November.

1984
Consideración funcional de clasificadores numéricos del Maya Yucateco. [A functional consideration of numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya.] Taller Maya [Maya Workshop] VII, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 31 July.

1985
The historical relativity of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Symposium on Social Mediation: Beyond the Antinomy of the Material and the Cultural, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada, 11 May.

Pro-verbs of saying: Reporting speech with quotatives in Yucatec Maya. Conference on Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL, 27-29 June.

1986
Linguistic diversity and cognition. Cross-Cultural Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 4 February.

-----. Department of Psychology Colloquium, Wesleyan University, Middlebury, CN, 27 February.

-----. Department of Psychology Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2 December.

Passing the buck: Responsibility and blame in the Yucatec Maya household. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Session on Family Systems and Self Narratives, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 7 December.

1987
Linguistic diversity and cognition: The Whorfian hypothesis revisited. Colloquium of the Interdepartmental Program on Language and Cognition, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 26 January.

-----. Department of Anthropology, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 8 May.

The role of children in the production of adult culture: A Yucatec case. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Session on the Production and Acquisition of Culture: Current Research in Psychological Anthropology, 109th Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society (held jointly with the Society for Psychological Anthropology), San Antonio, TX, 1 May.

From performance pragmatics to "Practical Pig." Invited session on De-Centered Discourse, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 19 November.

1988
Language, thought, and beyond: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2 February.

-----. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1 December.

Mind in society: The work of Lev Vygotsky in historical perspective. Invited general public lecture for the Collegiate Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 25 May.

 The role of language in the development of representation: A comparison of the views of Piaget and Vygotsky. Symposium on Representation and Imagination in the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, 18th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, 4 June.

 -----. Colloquium of the Interdepartmental Program on Language and Cognition, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 21 November.

Consciousness as a methodological problem. Session on Psychological Anthropology: Appraisals and Prospects in Methodology, 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, 16 November.

Semantic and pragmatic dimensions of number marking in Yucatec Maya. Session on Mayan Languages (27th Conference on American Indian Languages), 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, 18 November.

1989
Determinism and reductionism in social theory. Discussant, session on Language, Cognition, and Social Action at a Conference on the Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL, 1 April.

Vygotsky and the culture of language. Invited symposium on Vygotsky and the Cultural Context of Cognition, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, 28 April.

Language diversity in cognitive development. Invited symposium on The Challenge of Cultural and Institutional Diversity for the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, 19th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2 June.

Statement of possible research directions. Workshop on Development in Sociocultural Context sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Sturbridge Village, MA, 20-22 October.

Language diversity and the development of thought. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Invited symposium on New Perspectives on Relationships between Language and Culture in Human Development, 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 16 November.

Unconscious colonization: The diffusion of Spanish speech forms into Yucatec Maya. Symposium on The Colonization of Language, Verbal and Visual sponsored by the Latin American Cultures Program and the Ethnohistory Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 8 December.

1990
From performance pragmatics to "Practical Pig:" The role of changing media in the historical transformation of a children's tale. University of Pennsylvania Folklore Colloquium on Key Concepts in Folklore Reconsidered, Philadelphia, PA, 12 February.

Infrastructure development and changing communication patterns in a Mayan village. Workshop on Mediated Communications, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL, 10 March.

Maybe the medium isn't the message. Workshop on Mediated Communications, Center for Psychosocial Studies. Chicago, IL, 2-3 June.

When space is not space: Body parts, verbs of motion, and numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya. Workshop on Spatial Conceptualization in Mayan Language and Action sponsored by the Projektgruppe Kognitive Anthropologie of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, 10-20 September.

Spanish loan registers in Yucatec Maya. Session on Mayan Discourse (29th Conference on American Indian Languages), 89th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, 2 December.

1991
Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Linguistics Colloquium Series, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 28 February.

Language diversity and thought: The Whorfian hypothesis at fifty. Philadelphia Anthropological Society, Philadelphia, PA, 22 March

Performance aspects of reporting speech in Yucatec Maya. Department of Folklore and Folklife Colloquia Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 8 April.

Language and thought among the Yucatec Maya. Latin American Cultures Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 17 April.

Empirical research and linguistic relativity. Conference on Rethinking Linguistic Relativity sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Ocho R¡os, Jamaica, 3-11 May.

The importance of formal evidence in semantic analysis. Workshop on The Analysis of Language and Discourse, Second Bi-Annual Conference on Current Thinking and Research of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, IL, 11 October.

How to wreak havoc with a category: The neglect of linguistic form in the analysis of categories. Symposium on The Mental and Social Life of Categories, Second Bi-Annual Conference on Current Thinking and Research of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, IL, 12 October.

Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series (talk Co-Sponsored by the Department of Speech and Communication and Department of Developmental Psychology), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 16 October.

Multidisciplinary studies: Genuine and spurious. Colloquium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 20 October.

Language diversity and cognition. Colloquium Series of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1 November.

Rethinking case marking in Yucatec. Session of the 29th Conference on American Indian Languages, 90th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 21.

1992
How to wreak havoc with a category: The neglect of linguistic form in the analysis of categories. Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 24 January.

Change of state and change of position in Yucatec Maya verbs. Symposium on Spatial Conceptualization in Mayan Languages sponsored by the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 10 February.

Form, substance, and function in the development of comparative frames. Symposium on Other Minds: Methods in the Cross-cultural Study of Cognitive Variation sponsored by the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 18 May.

Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Workshop, Faculty of Psychology in Scientific Pedagogy, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 June.

The linguistics of "color." Conference on Color Categories in Thought and Language sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Syracuse University, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, 25-28 October.

Discussant in an Invited Symposium on My Space or Yours?: Beyond the Individual in the Cognitive Study of Language co-sponsored by the Societies for Linguistic and Psychological Anthropology, 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2-6 December.

1993
Form, substance, and function as metrics in the development of comparative frames. Proseminar on A Return to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Comparative Linguistics and Historical Biology, Carolina Consortium on Human Development, Chapel Hill, NC, 25 January.

Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relation of language and thought. Colloquium of the Program in Language and Culture, Duke University, Durham, NC, 26 January.

Concluding discussion. Conference on Back to Basic Issues in Nominal Classification, Sponsored by the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 27 May.

Vygotsky, culture, and value. Symposium on Vygotsky's Psychology and the Concept of Culture, Third Bi-Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Montreal, Canada, 10 October.

1994
Number Marking in Yucatec. Department of Psychology Colloquium and Count-Mass Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 13 January.

First you see it, then you know it: The development of language-specific cognitive strategies. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 28 April.

The interaction of case and aspect in Yucatec Maya. Change of State Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 18 May.

Panel member, Forum on Linguistic Anthropology in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA, 1 December.

The role of language in shaping the child's transition from perceptual to conceptual classification. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Invited Symposium on Sense and Sensibility: Cognition Emerges from Perception co-sponsored by the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA, 3 December.

1995
Linguistic relativity, linguistic ideology, and standard language: An emerging research nexus. Ford Workshop on Identities and States, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 16 March.

The emergence of language-specific categories in middle childhood. Mellon Symposium on The Evolution of Childhood, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 23 April.

Towards a psychology of culture: Language and thought in middle childhood. Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19 October.

-----. Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 23 October.

The emergence of language-specific category preferences in children. Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 25 October.

The emergence of language-specific category preferences in children. Linguistic Circle, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 31 October.

Linguistic relativity: From linguistic analysis to cognitive assessment. Workshop, Linguistic Circle, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1 November.

It's later than you think: The role of language-specific categories in the development of classification behavior. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Conference on Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 14 November.

Towards a psychology of culture: The emergence of language-specific classification preferences in middle childhood. Colloquium Series of the Program in Human Development, University of California, San Diego, CA, 16 January.

1996
The development of language-specific category preferences in middle childhood. Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, University of Caliifornia, Los Angeles, CA, 22 January.

Concluding remarks. Symposium on Japanese Language and Culture, Meetings of the International Pragmatics Association, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, 9 July.

The impact of language-specific categories on the development of classification behavior. Symposium at the meetings of the International Psychology Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 21 August  [see International Journal of Psychology 31 (3-4): 5623-5623].

Summary of research. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 5 November.

Sapir's legacy to psychological anthropology. Invited Symposium on Psychological Anthropology: A Retrospective (Society for Psychological Anthropology), 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 21 November.

Concluding remarks. Symposium on Cognitive Science and Anthropology: A Re-Emerging Dialogue, 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 22 November.

1997
Language acquisition after age three. Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 19 February.

Acquisition of numeral classifiers by Yucatec children. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May.

Whorf and beyond: Language diversity and intellectual development. Session on Cognitive Linguistic Relativity, 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 July.

Language diversity and intellectual development. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Symposium on Language and Cognition, Fifth Bi-Annual Conference on Current Thinking and Research of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA, 10 October.

-----. Visiting Committee to The Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 14 November.

Language diversity, conceptual development, and the discursive turn. Colloquium Series Honoring the Centennial of Benjamin Lee Whorf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 17 October.

The Whorfian legacy to research on linguistic relativity. Symposium on The Implications of Linguistic Relativity: Papers for the Whorf centenary, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 19-23 November.

Concluding remarks. Symposium on the Acquisition of Language and Culture in Mesoamerica, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 19-23 November.

1998
Language diversity, intellectual development, and the growth of culture. Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 27 February.

Language diversity and intellectual development. Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3 February.

Recent research on linguistic relativity: A typology and critical evaluation. 26th Annual Linguistic Agency of the University of Duisberg Symposium, Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualization in Grammar and Lexis, Duisberg, Germany, 1 April.

Speech, reported speech, and translation in a colonial Chontal Maya manuscript. (With Paja Faudree.) The Instruments of Communication: Colonial Dialogue in Voice, Text, and Image; Latin American Cultures Forum Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 25 April.

The interaction of language type and referent type in the development of nonverbal classification preferences. (With Suzanne Gaskins.) Whither Whorf Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 29 May.

Commentary.  Symposium on The Development of Representation [in Middle Childhood].  Twenty-Eighth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development, Chicago, IL, 12 June.

Reflexivity.  97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 4 December.
Papers Presented (continued)

1999
“Fashions of speaking”: Linguistic relativity in the social sciences.  Dean’s Inaugural Lecture, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 28 January.

Discussion.  Symposium on Archaeological Ethnographies: Outdoors as Living Spaces.  64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL, 26 March.

Language and thought [Debate with Lila Gleitman on linguistic relativity].  Cognitive Science Program,  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 27-28 April.

Speech, reported speech, and translation in a colonial Chontal Maya manuscript.  (With Paja Faudree.)  .  Colonial Latin American Representations Workshop.  Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 5 May.

Language diversity and intellectual development.  Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Workshop, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 15 October.

“To grow in a prepared medium”: Culturing the mind in childhood.  Fyssen Foundation Conference on Evolution and Culture, Paris [Saint-Germain-en-Laye], France, 15 November.

Voices from the past: Speech and its representation in a colonial Chontal Maya manuscript. Symposium on Voicing History and Tradition in Mesoamerican Discourses, 98^th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 18 November.

A structure-based approach to event segmentation systems: In search of a naturalistic method. Workshop on Event Representation in Language and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 17 December.

2000
Language Diversity and Intellectual Development. Language and Cognition Colloquium Series, Language Learning in Later Childhood and Adolescence (Twenty Year Anniversary), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 10 April.

Discussant: Epistemologies and Publics. Conference on Anthropologies and Histories of Language (University of Michigan and University of Chicago Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 14 April.

Language-specific cognition as tacit metalinguistic awareness. Symposium on Metalinguistic Awareness: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 27 April.

Fashions of speaking: Linguistic relativity in the social sciences. Seventh Annual Pragmatics Conference, Cognition in Language Use: The Role of Perception and Representation, Memory and Planning, and Metalinguistic Awareness, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 12 July.

2001
Semantic accent and linguistic relativity. Semiotics Workshop, University of Chicago, 31 May.

Language diversity and thought: the influence of number marking on classification preferences. Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 12 November.

2002
-----. Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 31 January

The language we speak affects how we classify objects. Symposium on Does the language we speak affect the way we think? American Association for the Advancement of Science Meetings, Boston, MA, 17 February.

Discussant: Anxious Subjects, New Economies. Conference on The Semiosis of Anxiety/Anxieties about Semiosis. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2 March.

Understanding perspectives. Convocation Address, 468^th Convocation (Winter), The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 15 March.

Semantic accent and linguistic relativity. Invited address, Parasession on Indigenous Languages of Latin America: Standardization and Multilingualism. The 38^th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL, 25 April.

Discussant, Session on Projections of Grammar, Fourth Annual Michicagoan [Universities of Michigan and Chicago] Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology, Chicago, IL 11 May.

Culturing the mind in childhood: evidence from the interaction of language and thought. Conference on Evolution, Cognition, and Development, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 18 May.

The challenge of language diversity for theories of concept development. Workshop on Concepts and Languages. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK, 28 September.

Language, culture, and mind. Plenary address, 6^th Annual Conference on Semantics, Discourse, and Language VI, Rice University Houston, TX 12 October.

Discussant: Session on Morality and Epistemology: Stance-Taking in the Discursive Constitution of Personhood. 101^st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, 21 November.

2003
Comparative developmental methods in the study of language and thought.  (With Suzanne Gaskins.)  Formal Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 18 February.

Discussant: Session on Empirical Universals of Language: A Conversation With Anna Wierzbicka. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings, San Diego, CA, 11 April.

Semantic accent and linguistic relativity.  Invited presentation at a Conference on Cross-Linguistic Data and Theories of Meaning.  Co-sponsored by the Catholic University of the Netherlands and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 20 May.

Linguistic Relativity and Developmental Research.  Plenary Session, Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 1 November.

The Impact of Language Differences on Intellectual Development.  Public Lecture, Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 14 November.

2004
Does language affect thought, and how would you  know?  Public Lecture, University of Chicago Alumni Weekend, Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL, 31 January.

Language and Thought: Cognitive Consequences of Linguistic Diversity.  Interdisciplinary Seminar: At the Limits of Language," Sponsored by the Cosmo Caixa Foundation and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 26 March.

Discussant: Session on Institutional Genres. Sixth Annual Michicagoan [University of Michigan and University of Chicago] Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology: "Evidence, Authority, Legitimation."  Chicago, IL 8 May.

The Impact of Language Differences on Intellectual Development, Plenary Address, 31st Annual Forum of LACUS (the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States) (Conference Theme: Interconnections), Chicago, IL, 30 July.

Nonverbal Methods in Linguistic Relativity Research, Invited Symposium: Language and Thought, 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL 5August.

2005
Numeral Classifier Systems.  Presentation to the Interdepartmental Workshop on Numeral Classifier Systems. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 11 February

The Impact of Language Differences on Intellectual Development.  Linguistics Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 11 February

Final Discussant: Conference on Initial Person Reference in Conversation, Multi-modal Interaction Project,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2 April.

Session Report on Language Resources, Latin American eLCTL [electronic Less Commonly Taught Languages] Conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 23 April.

Discussant: Session on Texts. Seventh Annual Michicagoan [University of Michigan and University of Chicago] Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology: "Voice and Inequality."  Ann Arbor, MI, 7 May

Semantic Accent in Linguistic Description.  Plenary Address Midwestern Conference for Culture, Language, and Cognition. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL ,14 May.

The Role of Language in Intellectual and Cultural Development.  Colloquium of the Program in Culture, Language and Cognition.  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1 June.

Whorf and Vygotsky revisited: towards a comparative developmental understanding of word meaning.  NSF Conference on Words and the World: How Words Capture Human Experience.  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 7 June.

Vygotsky and Whorf: Development and Diversity in the Linguistic Mediation of Thought.  Paper presented in a Session on New Trends in Cultural-Historical Theory and Research at the First International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) Congress.  Seville, Spain, 22 September.

2006
Relativism and Absolutism as Scientific Strategies in the Study of Language and Thought. Inaugural Lecture.  Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1 April

Language and Thought in a Mayan Community Sign Language.  Workshop on Village-Based Sign Languages, Sign Language Typology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 6 April.

Sign Interpreters.  Data Workshop, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 25 May.

Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Accent.  Plenary Address, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 27 May.

Linguistic Relativity and the Problem of Semantic Accent.  Plenary Address, 2nd Language, Culture, and Mind Conference, Paris, France, 19 July.

Structuralism in Language and Thought.  Lecture presented to students in the MAPSS program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 15 November.

The Development of Human Sociality in Childhood.  Presented at an Invited Session: Human Sociality and the Four Fields: A Wenner-Gren Panel, 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA 18 November.

Integrating Multiple Methods: Bringing Anthropology and Psychology Together.  Presented at an Invited Session: Papers in Honor of Robert A. LeVine, 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA 18 November (with Suzanne Gaskins)

2007
Invited General Discussant at a Conference on Ritual Communication sponsored  by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Sintra, Portugal, 16-23 March.

Unconscious Colonization: The Diffusion of Spanish Speech Forms into Yucatec Maya.  Invited Paper, Confrence on Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 14 April.

Discussant, Session on Modeling Culture.  Ninth Annual Michicagoan [University of Michigan and University of Chicago] Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology on "Documents and Inscriptions,"  Ann Arbor, MI 4 May.

Linguistic Relativity: An Overview and Case Study. Seminar, Department of Linguistics, School for Doctorates, CRATILO (Scuola di Dottorato CRATILO), Pisa, Italy, 17 September

The Problem of Semantic Accent in Linguistic Comparison. Seminar, Department of Linguistics, School for Doctorates, CRATILO ( Scuola di Dottorato CRATILO), Pisa, Italy.  18 September.

Linguistic Relativity and Language Categories. Seminar, POLYCAT Working Group, Paris, France, 20 September.

Yucatec Noun Roots. Seminar, POLYCAT Working Group, Paris, France, 20 September.

The Ontogenesis of Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Accent. The Department of Comparative Human Development Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health Workshop University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2 October.

Linguistic Relativity and the Problem of Semantic Accent.  Course given at the IV Coloquio Internacional “Mauricio Swadesh”: La Lingüistica Antropológica en México El Instituto de Investigaciones Antropoloógicas de la UNAM y el Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigínas, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, 8-10 October.
    Plenary Lecture: Linguistic Relativity and the Problem of Semantic Accent.  8 October.
    Course Lecture 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations. 8 October.
    Course Lecture 2: Contemporary Empirical Approaches.  8 October.
    Course Lecture 3: Language and Thought: Recent Comparative Work.  9 October.
    Course Lecture 4: Language and Thought: Recent Developmental work. 9 October.
    Course Lecture 5: Relativity and the Growth of New Discursive Abilities.  10 October.
    Course Lecture 6: Relativity and Accent Limitations.  10 October.

Discussant, Session on Language, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Becoming In and Through A Semiotic System. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 28 November.

[Remarks.]  Panelist in a Levinson Retrospective Event, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.  7 December.

Invited Final General Discussant, European Science Foundation, Eurocores Programme, European Collaborative Research – OMLL The Origin of Man, Language and Languages.  Rome, Italy, 14 December.

2008
The Referential Semantics of Yucatec Maya Root Nouns: An Exploration in Method.  Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Chicago, IL, 3 January.

Invited Final Discussant, Maya Diaspora Working Group, Center for Latino Policy Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 31 January-1 February.

Participant, Workshop on Digital Archiving of Latin American Indigenous Language Resources, Sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies, held at the University of Texas, Austin 18-19 April.

Discussant, Panel on Coding Community, Tenth Annual Michicagoan [University of Michigan and University of Chicago] Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology on "Linguistic Worlds in Collision,"  Chicago, IL, 3 May.

Linguistic Relativity.  Week-long workshop on Experimental Methods in Cognitive Linguistics.  Odense, Denmark, 7-12 July.

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1985 (Org.) Conference on Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL, 27-29 June.

1986-88 (Partic.)Working Group on Text and Social Action. Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL (quarterly).

1988 (Org.) Symposium on Representation and Imagination in the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, 18th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, 4 June.

1989 (Org.) Invited symposium on The Challenge of Cultural and Institutional Diversity for the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, 19th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2 June.

1992 (Co-org. with E. Danziger and S. Levinson) Symposium on Other Minds: Methods in the Cross-cultural Study of Cognitive Variation, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 18-23 May.

1994-96 (Co-org. with N. Farriss and N. Hornberger) The Instruments of Communication: Colonial Dialogue in Voice, Text, and Image; Latin American Cultures Forum Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (periodically).

1995-96 (Co-org. with N. Farriss) Border Signs: Instruments of Communication in Culture Contact; Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (monthly).

1997-04 (Co-org. with R. Shweder) Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (weekly).

1999 (Co-org. with P. Faudree) Voicing History and Tradition in Mesoamerican Discourses, 98^th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 18 November.

2000-02 (Co-org. with M. Silverstein), Semiotics Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (monthly).

2000-08 (Partic.) Michicagoan Meetings [Michigan-Chicago Workshop on Language, Culture, and Subjectivity], alternating between the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (quarterly).

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