Janet McIntosh
Janet McIntosh is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist. She is a professor of anthropology at Brandeis University. Her work in Kenya and the United States has explored personhood, religion, colonialism, right-wing ideologies, and militarization. She has received the Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion (2010), honorable mention in the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing (2017), and honorable mention in the American Ethnological Society’s Senior Book Prize (2018). She is co-editor of Language in the Trump Era (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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