Bambi B. Schieffelin

Linguistic anthropologist Bambi B. Schieffelin is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New York University. Her research interests include language socialization, language ideologies and language change, translation, missionization, and computer mediated communication.

She is the author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children and Acquiring Conversational Competence. She is also co-editor of several volumes, including Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory; Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations; and The Handbook of Language Socialization. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.