Doris Warriner
Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Professor of Anthropology Doris Warriner draws on cultural and linguistic anthropology to investigate the social, political, economic, and ideological dimensions of language, literacy, and mobility with a focus on how social and communicative practices are influenced by large-scale processes such as displacement, ethnic conflict, immigration, and transnationalism. In her scholarship and teaching, she applies insights from this inquiry to questions and concerns relevant to the fields of anthropology, education, and applied linguistics.
Warriner joined the anthropology department at Northwestern University in 2023. Prior to that appointment, she was Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her publications have appeared in Theory into Practice, Curriculum Inquiry, the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and the International Multilingual Research Journal. In addition, Warriner edited Refugee Education across the Lifespan: Mapping experiences of language learning and language use (Springer, 2021) and co-edited two volumes: Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Critical reflections on research methods: Power and equity in complex multilingual contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2019).
Current Research
Ukrainian Migration and Language Ideology in Chicago. Warriner is investigating how Ukrainian migrants living and working in the Chicago area make sense of and respond to recent trends in U.S. immigration policy (and other kinds of material constraints, including a tightening labor market and widely circulating ideologies of language).
Meaning-Making in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Warriner is drawing on theories from linguistic anthropology and semiotics to trace the patterns, rhythms, and interconnective tissue that facilitate meaning-making and world-building in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Selected Publications
Books/Edited Volumes
Warriner, D. 2021. Refugee education across the lifespan: Mapping experiences of language learning and language use. Springer.
Warriner, D., and E. Miller, eds. 2021. Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Warriner, D., and M. Bigelow, eds. 2019. Critical reflections on research methods: Power and equity in complex multilingual contexts. Multilingual Matters.
Journal Articles
Warriner, D., D. Fredricks, and C. Duran. 2020. Valuing the resources and experiences of refugee-background learners: A principled approach to teaching and learning academic language. Theory Into Practice 59(1).
Warriner, D. 2017. Theorizing the spatial dimensions and pedagogical implications of transnationalism. Curriculum Inquiry 47(1): 50–61.
Fredricks, D., and D. Warriner. 2016. “We speak English in here and English only!” Teacher and ELL youth perspectives on restrictive language education. Bilingual Research Journal 39(3–4): 309–23.
Warriner, D. 2015. “Here, without English, you are dead”: Ideologies of language and discourses of neoliberalism in adult English language learning. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1071827.
Warriner, D., and L. Wyman. 2013. Introduction: Experiences of simultaneity in complex contemporary linguistic ecologies: Implications for theory, method and practice. International Multilingual Research Journal 7(1): 1–14.
Warriner, D. 2013. “It’s better life here than there”: Elasticity and ambivalence in narratives of personal experience. International Multilingual Research Journal 7(1): 15–32.
