Christina Davis

Office: Morgan Hall 401
Phone: (309) 298-1369
E-mail: Dr. Davis
Academia.edu profile: http://wiu.academia.edu/ChristinaDavis

Sociology & Anthropology

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2011
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology, South Asia, Social Inequality, Conflict, Education

2013. “Locating Sinhala Voices: Ethnic Conflict and the Configuration of Difference among Sri Lankan Muslims.” Under Review. American Ethnologist.

2012. “Is Jaffna Tamil the Best?” Producing “Legitimate” Language in a Multilingual Sri Lankan School. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 197-218.
“Locating Voicing: Multilingualism, Ethnic Conflict and the Configuration of Difference among Sri Lankan Muslims.” Paper delivered, Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and Interrogations. Helsinki, Finland. 6/2013.
“Is Jaffna Tamil the Best? Ideologies of Legitimate Language and Sociolinguistic Disjuncture in a Multilingual Sri Lankan School.” Paper delivered, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada. 11/2011.
“School Segregation and Conflict: Evaluating Sinhala and Tamil as Second Language Policies in Sri Lankan Schools.” Paper delivered, Tamil Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada. 5/2011.
“The Voices of Others: Configuring Stance, Conflict, and Difference in Sri Lanka.” Paper delivered, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. 11/2010.
“A Cosmopolitan Kandy: The Discursive Construction of Difference among Sri Lankan Tamil-Speaking Adolescents.” Paper delivered, Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 10/ 2010.
Davis, Christina P., and Grant P. Upson. 2005. Spectatorship, Fandom, and Nationalism in the South Asian Diaspora: the ’03 Cricket World Cup. International Journal of the History of Sport. 21:3/4.

American Anthropological Association; Society for Linguistic Anthropology; American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies

Dr. Davis joined the department in 2012.