Dr. Jacqueline Messing’s teaching and research interests focus on issues of language, identity, ideology, race and racism in Mexico and the United States, on indigenous communities, multilingualism, and attempts to revitalize Native languages through education. She has been a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at UMD since 2010, and has also taught at Georgetown, the University of South Florida, and the University of Arizona.

Courses include:

ANTH 469J/688J      Educational Anthropology: Introduction to the Anthropology of Schooling

ANTH 474/674          Language, Identity and Racism*

ANTH 469C/689C   Language and Culture

ANTH 473/673          Native American Languages and Cultures

ANTH 380                     Discourse and Culture (Communications course)

*Tweeting @jacqmessing and at #UMDLangIDRacism202X [current year] for ANTH 474/674 Language, Identity and Racism.