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Kira Hall (born 1962, Birmingham, Alabama) is professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender. A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a transgender group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."

She is known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.

Education

Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.

Designations

Awards

• College Scholar Award in 2014
• Provost Faculty Achievement Award in 2010
• Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award in 2009
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2004.

Positions held

• President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2019–Present, as of 2021)
• Professor, CU Boulder Department of Linguistics
• Professor, CU Boulder Department of Anthropology
• CU Boulder Associate Chair Of Undergraduate Studies, department Of linguistics
• Affiliated faculty, CU Boulder College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI)
• Affiliated faculty, Cu Boulder Department Of Women And Gender Studies (WGST)
• Director, CU Boulder Program In Culture, Language, And Social Practice
• Director, CU Boulder Literacy Practicum

Selected publications

Book chapters

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Journal articles

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• Hall, Kira. 2013. "Commentary I: It's a hijra! Queer linguistics revisited." Discourse and Society 24: 634-642. doi:10.1177/0957926513490321