William Leap Prof Emeritus Department of Anthropology
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- Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
- Degrees
- PhD, Anthropology, Linguistics Concentration, Southern Methodist University
BA, Anthropology and Linguistics, Florida State University - Bio
- William Leap鈥檚 career in public anthropology has included work with American Indian tribes (community organizing, language renewal, teaching retraining), engagements with language, sexuality, and HIV politics in the urban US and urban South Africa, studies of gay language and 鈥済ay men鈥檚 English鈥 as local and global formations, and multiple projects (at 麻豆原创, in DC, in the American Anthropological Association and in other public settings) designed to build alliances between dissident gendered and sexual voices. He is the founding co-editor of the . Since 1993, he has coordinated the annual . He has published seven books and edited collections and numerous essays in language and sexuality studies. He is currently finishing the edits on his new book, "Language Before Stonewall." Not in residence, 2016-2017.
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
听Public anthropology; Language, Sexuality, Ideology and Globalization; lesbian/gay/transgender studies
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Out in Theory (co-edited with Ellen Lewin, 2002 )听 received the Ruth Benedict prize for outstanding edited collection in lesbian/gay anthropology in 2003, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association , 2004 .听 It was chosen as one of Choice Magazine鈥檚 Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
Word's Out (Leap, 1996)听听 received the Ruth Benedict prize for the outstanding lesbian/gay monograph of 1996, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association , 1996.
Selected Publications
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- Lewin, Ellen and William L. Leap, eds. 1976 Out in The Field听 Urbana: University of听 Illinois Press., 2002 Out in Theory Urbana: University of Illinois Press., 2009 Out in Public New York City: Blackwells. 听 听
- Leap, William and Tom Boellstorff, eds. 2004听 Speaking in Queer Tongues: Gay Language and Globalization.Urbana: University of Illinois Press., Leap, William 1993 American Indian English. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 听 听
- 1996听 Word鈥檚 Out: Gay Men鈥檚 English. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)听 听 听
- 2003听 Language and gendered modernity. in The Handbook of Language and Gender. Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff, eds pp. 401-422. London:听 Blackwells. 听 听
- 2005听 Finding the centre: Claiming gay space in Cape Town, South Africa in Performing Queer-Shaping Sexuality. 1994-2004. Mikki van Zyl and Melissa Styn, eds. Pp 235-266. Cape Town: Kwela Press. 听 听
- 2008听 "Queering gay men鈥檚 English.鈥 in Language and Gender Research Methodologies. Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti,听 Helen Sauntson, and Jane Sunderland, eds.听 pp. 408-429. Basingstoke: Palgrave 听 听
- 2008听 鈥淭rue thing that binds us鈥: Globalization, U.S. language pluralism and gay men鈥檚 English.鈥 in The Impact of Globalization on the United States: Culture And Society. Michelle Bertho, eds. pp.183-209. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers.