Norma Mendoza-Denton

Norma Mendoza-Denton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. In her work at the intersection of language, youth subculture, ethnicity and politics, she has focused on topics ranging from gang members in California to Republican Town Hall meetings in Arizona. She has authored over 50 book chapters and journal articles in the fields of Linguistics, Anthropology, Communication, and Education. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship for the...See more

Norma Mendoza-Denton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. In her work at the intersection of language, youth subculture, ethnicity and politics, she has focused on topics ranging from gang members in California to Republican Town Hall meetings in Arizona. She has authored over 50 book chapters and journal articles in the fields of Linguistics, Anthropology, Communication, and Education. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship for the completion of her book Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice in Latina Youth Gangs (Wiley Blackwell, 2008); the second edition is slated to include a graphic novelette. Past president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, she has served on the Executive Boards of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Visual Anthropology and currently for the Linguistic Society of America. Her other manuscript in progress, Citizen Rage, addresses the linguistic dynamics of town hall meetings and other public events in American politics. See less