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Christina HigginsProfessor | PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Christina Higgins

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808.956.6046
cmhigginat symbolhawaii.edu

Dr. Higgins is a sociolinguist who researches multilingualism from a social perspective. She has primarily focused on multilingual practices outside of educational settings in East Africa and Hawai驶i. She has used discourse analytic, ethnographic, and qualitative approaches to investigate identities, intercultural communication, ideologies, and the relationship between language and place. Dr. Higgins strives to be a sociolinguist for the "real world" and to engage in scholarship that will effect positive change in society. Her current projects include a study, a of the linguistic and semiotic landscape of the University of Hawai驶i at M膩noa's campus, with attention to Hawaiian history, language, culture, and geography, and a collaboration with 糖心Vlog官方M film students to produce short films that feature Pidgin, the creole language of Hawai驶i. Dr. Higgins is the Director of the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies.

Areas of expertise:

  • sociolinguistics
  • ethnographic discourse analysis
  • multilingualism
  • language and identity
  • family language policy
  • language and globalization
  • community-based, participatory research

Selected Publications:

Higgins, C. (2023). East Africa. In M. Ball, R. Mesthrie & C. Meluzzi (Eds.) London: Routledge.听

Wright, L. & Higgins C. (Eds.) (2022). . London: Bloomsbury.

Higgins, C. 2021. Promoting Pidgin at the University of Hawai鈥榠 at M膩noa. In G. Clements and M. J. Petray (eds.) (pp. 174-188). New York: Routledge.

Higgins, C. & Ikeda, M. (2021). The materialization of language in tourism networks. Applied Linguistics Review, 12 (1), 123-152.

Higgins, C. (2019). 听 International Journal of the Sociology of Language 255, 45-72.

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