James Stanlaw to present CAS lecture

“Culture, Cognition, and Contact: What the Meeting of Japanese and English Has to Say About Current Theories in Anthropology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science” will be the topic of a presentation by Department of Sociology and Anthropology Professor and Anthropology Program Coordinator James Stanlaw on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room.

Stanlaw has taught at Illinois State since 1990. He is a contributing editor to Anthropology News and served on the editorial board of World Englishes. Stanlaw is also co-editor of Pan-Japan: The International Journal of Japanese Diaspora. He is currently on the executive board of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology.

Stanlaw has received a number of scholarships and awards, including Fulbright and National Defense Foreign Language fellowships and support from the Spencer Foundation and the National Science Foundation. His book “Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact” was nominated at the 2005 American Anthropological Association meetings for the Francis L.K. Hsu Prize as best new book on East Asian anthropology.

In addition to his time at Illinois State, Stanlaw previously taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Columbia University, University of Illinois and St. John’s University in New York City. He was a visiting research scholar in 2007 at Nihon University in Mishima, Japan. Stanlaw was chosen as one of Illinois State’s College of Arts and Sciences teachers of the year in 1994. He has also been nominated for the American Anthropological Association Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.

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