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IGNASI CLEMENTE, PhD January 2019

713 Hunter North Building

Department of Anthropology

Hunter College

CUNY City University of New York

695 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10065, US

[email protected]

Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care

Institute of Child Health

University College London

4th Floor, 30 Guilford Street

London, WC1N 1EH, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-577X

POSITIONS

Hunter College, CUNY

Assistant Professor with Tenure, Department of Anthropology 2015-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology 2008-2015

Institute of Child Health, University College London

Honorary Senior Research Associate, Louis Dundas Centre for

Children’s Palliative Care

2015-present

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational

Science and Occupational Therapy, School of Dentistry

2008

EDUCATION

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Pediatric Pain Research Program,

Department of Pediatrics. Supervisor: Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, Professor

of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,

UCLA.

2005-2008

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Program on Pain in Child

Health

International Post-Doctoral Trainee. Supervisor: Dr. Carl L. von Baeyer,

Professor of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

2005-2008

University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D., Department of Anthropology 1999- 2005

M.A., Anthropology 1995-1998

Universitat de Barcelona

Advanced Studies Diploma (equivalent to doctoral candidacy

advancement), Secció de Lingüística, Department of Catalan Philology,

“Language and Variation” Ph.D. Program

2000-2002

http://www.usask.ca/

Ignasi Clemente ([email protected])

Curriculum Vitae

B.A., Secció de Lingüística, Department of Catalan Philology. First two

years completed at the Universitat de València.

1989-1994

BOOKS

Salvador, V., Koťátková, A., and Clemente, I. (Eds.) (Forth) Discourses at the Edges of Life:

Death, Communication, and Culture. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Payrató, L., & Clemente, I. (Forth) Gestures we Live by: The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures.

Expected publication date: 2019. Boston & Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

Clemente, I. (2015). Uncertain Futures. Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer

Treatment. Oxford & New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 2017 Modest Reixach Book Prize

from the Catalan Society of Sociolinguistics, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona,

Catalonia.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Salvador, V., Koťátková, A., and Clemente, I. (Forth) Introduction. In Salvador, V., Koťátková,

A., and Clemente, I. (Eds.) Discourses at the Edges of Life: Death, Communication, and

Culture. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Clemente, I. (Forth). Religion, Collusion, and “Fighting:” Pediatric Cancer End-Of-Life Discourses in

Catalonia, Spain. In V. Salvador, A. Koťátková, & I. Clemente (Eds.), Discourses at the Edges

of Life: Death, Communication, and Culture. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Reddington, E., Clemente, I., Waring, H. Z., & Yu, D. (Forth). "Doing being collegial": Participants’

positioning work in Q&A sessions. In C. Ilie (Ed.), Questioning-answering practices across

contexts and cultures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Clemente, I. (Forth). Constructing expertise: audience member person reference in public talk Q&A

sessions. In H. Z. Waring & E. Reddington (Eds.), Communicating with the Public:

Conversation Analytic Studies. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Bluebond-Langner, M. and Clemente, I. (Forth) Children's View of Illness and Death. In

Goldman, A., Hain, R., Meiring. M., and Rapoport. A. (Eds.) The Oxford Textbook of

Palliative Care for Children (2nd

Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bluebond-Langner, M., Langner, R., and Clemente, I. (Forth). Care of children with advanced

illness. In N. Cherny, M. Fallon, S. Kaasa, R. K. Portenoy, & D. C. Currow (Eds.),

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (6th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clemente, I. (Forth) Emotion and Speech-in-Interaction in the Context of Illness. In Wilce, J.,

Fenigsen, J, and S. Pritzker (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion.

London & New York: Routledge.

mailto:[email protected]


Curriculum Vitae

Clemente. I. (Invited). Repair, Error, and Correction. In Stanlaw, J. (Editor-in-Chief).

International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Oxford & New York: Wiley.

Alturo, N., Clemente, I., & Payrató, L. (2016). Notes for a Multilingual and Multimodal

Functional Discourse Grammar In K. Jungbluth & M. Fernández-Villanueva (Eds.),

Multilingual Use in Multilingual Contexts (pp 3-33). Berlin & Boston: Mouton de

Gruyter.

Clemente, I. (2013). Pain in cultural and communicative contexts. In P. J. McGrath, S. M.

Walker, B. J. Stevens & W. T. Zempsky (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain (pp.

102-110). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clemente, I. (2013). Conversation Analysis and Anthropology. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.),

Handbook of Conversation Analysis (pp. 688-700). Oxford & New York: Blackwell-

Wiley.

Clemente, I. (2010). Progressivity and participation: Children’s management of parental

assistance in paediatric chronic pain encounters. In A. Pilnick, J. Hindmarsh & V. T. Gill

(Eds.), Communication in Healthcare Settings: Policy, Participation and New

Technologies (pp. 83-98). Oxford & New York: Wiley-Blackwell. Reprint of Clemente

2009.

Clemente, I. (2008). Recording audio and video. In L. Wei & M. Moyer (Eds.), The Blackwell

Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism (pp. 177-191). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Clemente, I. (2004). Quan em clavaran allò? Algunes consideracions sobre la gestualitat en la

negociació del càncer infantil a Catalunya [“When will they stick me with that? Some

considerations concerning gesture in the negotiation of pediatric cancer in Catalonia”]. In

N. Alturo, L. Payrató & M. Payà (Eds.), Les fronteres del llenguatge. Lingüística i

comunicació no verbal [Language Frontiers: Linguistics and Non-Verbal

Communication] (pp. 173-184). Barcelona: PPU.

ARTICLES

Waring, H., Reddington, E., Yu, D., & Clemente, I. (2018). Going general: Responding to yes–no

questions in informational webinars for prospective grant applicants. Discourse &

Communication, 12(3), 307-327.

Moyer, M., Clemente, I., Rubio, G., & Giménez, M. (2018). VOICEITT: Una nova tecnologia de

reconeixement de la veu per a persones amb impediment de la parla. Logopèdia, 33, 27-28.

Salvador, V., & Clemente, I. (2017). Pórtico: Relato y cultura de la salud. In V. Salvador & I.

Clemente (Eds.), Medicina, literatura y representaciones sociales. Special Monograph of

eHumanista/IVITRA: Volume 11 (pp. 220-221).



Curriculum Vitae

Aiarzaguena, J.M., Gaminde, I., Clemente, I., & Garrido, E. (2013). Explaining Medically

Unexplained Symptoms: Somatizing Patients’ Responses In Primary Care. Patient

Education and Counseling, 93(1), 63-72.

Clemente, I., Heritage, J., Meldrum, M. L., Tsao, J. C. I., & Zeltzer, L. K. (2012). Preserving the

Child as a Respondent: Initiating Patient-Centered Interviews in a US Outpatient Tertiary

Care Pediatric Pain Clinic. Communication and Medicine, 9(3), 203-213.

Clemente, I. (2009). Progressivity and Participation: Children’s Management of Parental

Assistance in Paediatric Chronic Pain Encounters. Sociology of Health and Illness, 31, 6,

872-888.

Clemente, I., Lee, S. H., & Heritage, J. (2008). Children in Chronic Pain: Promoting Pediatric

Patients’ Symptom Accounts in Tertiary Care. Social Science and Medicine, 66, 6, 1418-

28.

Clemente, I. (2007). Clinicians’ Routine Practices of Non-Disclosure: Prioritizing “Protection”

over the Information Needs of Adolescents with Cancer. Canadian Journal of Research

Nursing, 39, 4, 18-34.

EDITED PEER-REVIEWED ISSUES AND MONOGRAPHS

Salvador, V., & Clemente, I. (Eds.). (2017). Medicina, literatura y representaciones sociales

[Medicine, literature and social representations]. Special Monograph of eHumanista-

IVITRA: Volume 11.

BOOK REVIEWS

Clemente, I. (2017). All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain by Mara Buchbinder.

American Anthropologist, 119(1), 158-159.

Clemente, I. (2012). Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives edited by Jack Sidnell.

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 22(3), 252-254.

Clemente, I. (2012). A Review. The Maintenance of Life. Preventing Social Death through

Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care - Lessons from The Netherlands. Ethos, 40, 1, 1-3.

Clemente, I. (1996). A Review: Rethinking Context. Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.

Links & Letters, 3, 149-151.

PRESENTATIONS

Clemente, I., Moyer, M., & Rubio, G. (2018). Inclusió social i impacte de Voiceitt en la

identitat I la comunicació de persones amb dany cerebral adquirit: Paper presented at

the IV Jornades “La recerca sociolingüística en l’àmbit de la llengua catalana,” organized



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by Xarxa CRUSCAT, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).

Moyer, M., Rubio, G., Giménez, M., Clemente, I., de Miguel, R., & Ruíz, J. (Hanna no esta, el

otro de presentacion del grupo CIEN tambien cuenta como poster?) (2018). Inclusión

Social e impacto de VOICEITT en la identidad y la comunicación de personas con daño

cerebral adquirido: Poster presented at the 2nd

International Seminar - General Assembly

EDiSo, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo (Spain).

David, J., Daly, B., Chute, D., Katz-Buonincontro, J., Clemente, I., Hildenbrand, A.K., &

Lipstein. E. (2018). Considering Biologic Therapy in Pediatric Chronic Illness: A

Mixed-Methods Examination of Adolescents’ and Caregivers’ Use of Language in the

Medical Decision-Making Process. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of

Society for Medical Decision Making, Montreal, QC (Canada).

Clemente, I. (2017). The Meaning-Making Body: Agency and Intercorporeality in Health

Communication: Invited Talk. Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University,

Montclair, NJ.

Waring, H., Reddington, E., Clemente, I., & Yu, D. (2017). Using Conversation Analysis to

Gain Insights into "Culture of Health" Messaging: Invited talk. Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.

Reddington, E., Clemente, I., Waring, H. Z., & Yu, D. (2017). Doing ‘being collegial’:

Participants’ positioning work in Question and Answer Sessions: Paper presented at the

15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK).

Reddington, E., Clemente, I., Waring, H. Z., & Yu, D. (2017). Responding to Yes-No Questions in

Informational Webinars for Prospective Grant Applicants Paper presented at the Conference of

the IIEMCA International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis,

Westerville OH, US.

Clemente, I. (2016). From Macro to Micro and Vice Versa: “Interaction and Society” Round

Table, Seminar – General Assembly of EDiSo, Association for the Study of Discourse

and Society. Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València,

Spain.

Clemente, I. (2015). Intercorporeal Agency: How to Do Things with Bodies: Invited Talk,

Sociolinguistics Lunch Series. Department of Linguistics, The Graduate Center CUNY,

New York City.

Clemente, I. (2014). Looking for the Unsaid: A Multi-layered Approach to Childhood Cancer

Communication: Invited Talk. Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma

de Barcelona, Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain.

Clemente, I. (2014). Doing Conversation Analysis in Anthropology: Paper presented at the 4th



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International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-14), Los Angeles, CA.

Clemente, I. (2014). Haptic epistemics: Physicians’ embodied demonstrations of a chronic pain

diagnosis in pediatric encounters: Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on

Conversation Analysis (ICCA-14), Los Angeles, CA.

Clemente, I. (2013). Between Self and Other: The Interaction Order in Health Care Settings:

Invited Talk. Beth Israel Center for Clinical Training and Research, New School for

Social Research, New York City, NY.

Clemente, I. (2012). Performing Chronic Pain: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Language in

Pediatric Encounters: Paper presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Clemente, I. (2012). Applied Conversation Analysis: Interaction Order, Family, and Medicine

Social Systems: Invited Talk. LANSI Language and Social Interaction Working Group.

Department of Arts and Humanities, TESOL and Applied Linguistics Program, Teachers

College, Columbia University, New York City, NY.

Clemente, I. (2010). New Engagements: Linguistic Anthropology's Contributions to

Anthropology and Beyond: Invited Talk. Department of Anthropology, The Graduate

Center, CUNY, New York City, NY.

Clemente, I. (2009). One Child in Pain, One “Patient” Party, and Two Interlocutors for the

Clinician: Children and Parents in Pediatric Encounters: Paper presented at the 108th

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Clemente, I. (2009) Grammar in Action, Grammar as Social Action: Constructing Childhoods

in the Clinic: Invited Talk. The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures

and Languages, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, NY.

Clemente, I. (2009) Children and parents in pediatric encounters: The dissolution (and the

constitution) of ‘patienthood’: Paper presented at the conference Medical Anthropology at

the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, organized by the Society for

Medical Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven CT.

Clemente, I. (2008a). What is Participation? Children’s Communication, Agency and

Responsibility in Pediatric Encounters: Paper presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of

the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California.

Clemente, I. (2008b). Dilemmas of Progressivity and Participation: Negotiating the Production

of Answers in Pediatric Encounters: Paper presented at the 94th Annual Convention of

the National Communication Association, San Diego, California.

Clemente, I., & Heritage, J. (2008). Children’s Solicitation of Parental Assistance During

Pediatric Chronic Pain Patients' Symptom Accounts in Tertiary Care: Paper presented at



Curriculum Vitae

the 2nd International Conference on Communication in Health Care, EACH European

Association for Communication in Health Care. Oslo, Norway.

Clemente, I. (2007a). Adolescents' Questions That Step into Future: Non-Disclosure to Contain

Uncertainty in Pediatric Cancer Trajectories in Barcelona: Paper presented at the

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach,

California.

Clemente, I. (2007b). Whose Pain Are We Talking About? Children with Chronic Pain and

Their Parents during Medical Interactions: Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of

the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach, California.

Clemente, I. (2007c). The Politics of Child/Parent Co-narratives of Chronic Pain: Paper to be

presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Washington D.C.

Meldrum, M. L., Clemente, I., Nutkiewicz, M., Padwa, H., & Zeltzer, L. K. (2007). CAM

Therapies for Pediatric Pain: Adherence and Outcomes: Poster presented at the 26th

Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Washington D.C.

Clemente, I. (2006a). "Fighting to Be Heard, Not Just Seen:” Recovering the Voices of

Chronically Ill Children in Medical Interactions: Paper presented at the 105th Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California.

Clemente, I. (2006b). Qualitative Methodologies in Pediatric Pain Assessment: How the Depth

and Subtlety of Detail Can Be Used to Identify Less Perceptible Forms of Pain and

Suffering: Paper presented at the 7th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Clemente, I. (2006c). Understanding Children's Silences: The Communication and

Anthropology of Pediatric Cancer Treatment: Pediatric Grand Rounds Talk. Department

of Pediatrics, D. Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Clemente, I. (2006d). The Ups and Downs of Conducting Research: Paper presented at the 6th

annual PICH Training Institute, Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

Clemente, I., & Lee, S. H. (2006). Negotiating the Ownership of Pain Experiences: Paper

presented at the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association,

San Antonio.

Clemente, I., Tsao, J., Meldrum, M., & Zeltzer, L. (2006). A Posteriori Independent Analyses:

Discrepancies between Parents’ Rating of Daughters’ Somatic Symptoms and Usual Pain

Versus Parents’ Rating of Sons’ Somatic Symptoms and Usual Pain: Paper presented at

the 7th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada.



Curriculum Vitae

Robert Segarra, A., Daniel i Llach, M., Clemente, I., & Badell Serra, I. (2006). Qualitat De Vida

En Joves Supervivents De Leucèmia O D’altres Malalties Hematològiques [Quality of

Life for Young Adult Survivors of Leukemia or Other Hematological Illnesses]: Poster

presented at the 3rd Catalan Conference of Mental Health, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).

Bursch, B., Meldrum, M. L., Clemente, I., Nutkiewicz, M., Zeltzer, L. K., Heritage, J., et al.

(2005). Clinical Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Chronic

Pain Patients: Poster presented at the 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American

Pain Society, Boston, MA, 2005.

Clemente, I. (2005a). The Co-Management of Uncertainty and Anxiety in a Pediatric Cancer

Unit in Barcelona, Spain: Poster presented at the 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the

American Pain Society, Boston, MA, 2005.

Clemente, I. (2005b). Narratives of an Optimistic Future: Co-Constructing Experience and Co-

Managing Anxiety on the Pediatric Oncology Ward in Barcelona: Paper presented at the

UCLA Interdisciplinary Group for the Study and Treatment of Pain, Los Angeles.

Clemente, I. (2005c). Overlapping Talk in a Catalan Pediatric Cancer Unit: A Culture-Specific

or/and Activity-Bound Phenomenon? Paper presented at the 104th Conference of the

American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.

Clemente, I. (2005d). Pediatric Oncologists' Narratives of an Uneventful Future: Co-

Constructing Experience and Co-Managing Suffering in Barcelona: Paper presented at

the 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Boston, MA.

Clemente, I. (2005e). Reluctance to Tell, Reluctance to Listen: Narrating Future Experience in

a Pediatric Cancer Unit in Barcelona, Catalonia: Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of

the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the American Ethnological Society, San

Diego, CA.

Clemente, I. (2005f). Negociant els límits de la incertesa i la (no)-informació: comunicació i

cultura en la gestió del tractament de càncer infantil a Barcelona [Negotiating the Limits

of Uncertainty and Non-Disclosure: Communication and Culture in the Management of

Pediatric Cancer Treatment in Barcelona]: Invited talk. Departament d'Antropologia,

Filosofia i Treball Social, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.

Meldrum, M. L., Nutkiewicz, M., Clemente, I., Bursch, B., Zeltzer, L. K., & Jacob, M. (2005).

Children's Experience of Treatment for Recurrent Pain: A Narrative-Based Study: Poster

presented at the 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Boston,

MA.

Piira, T., Grégoire, M.-C., & Clemente, I. (2005). Don’t Break My Heart: Descriptors of Social

and Physical Pain across Ethnolinguistic Groups: Poster presented at the Scientific

Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Pain (11th World Congress on

Pain), Sidney, Australia.



Curriculum Vitae

Clemente, I. (2002a). Algunes Raons Per a Estudiar La Comunicació Vocal I No Vocal. “Quan

Em Clavaran Allò?” Un Exemple Etnogràfic [Some Reasons for the Study of Vocal and

Nonvocal Communication. "When Will They Stick Me with That?" an Ethnographic

Example]: Paper presented at the VII Jornada sobre la Variació Lingüística, Barcelona

(Catalonia).

Clemente, I. (2002b). La Variació Funcional Del Llenguatge. Una Perspectiva Des De L’anàlisi

Del Discurs I De La Conversa [Functional Variation in Language. A Perspective from

Discourse and Conversation Analyses]: Invited talk. Secció de Lingüística del

Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Barcelona.

Clemente, I. (2002c). "¿Tú También Te Vas a Quedar Calvete?" (You're Going to Be a Little

Baldy Too?) Playfulness and Agency in Peer Socialization among Catalan Pediatric

Cancer Patients: Paper presented at the 101st Conference of the American

Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Clemente, I. (1998a). Amnesty International: Linguistic Evidence, Agency and the Strategic Use

of an Ideology of No Ideology: Paper presented at the 6th International Pragmatics

Conference, Reims (France).

Clemente, I. (1998b). “Deaths in Custody Are Often Reported”: Impartiality as a Strategic

Resource for Instigating Social Change: Paper presented at the 97th Conference of the

American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Clemente, I. (1998c). La Gestió de les emocions en la planta de pediatria oncològica [The

Management of Emotions in a Cancer Pediatric Unit]: Invited talk. Departament de

Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona

(Catalonia).

Clemente, I. (1997). Amnesty International: The Linguistic Struggle for Impartiality: Paper

presented at the 96th Conference of the American Anthropological Association,

Washington D.C.

HONORS

2017 Modest Reixach Book Prize from the Catalan Society of Sociolinguistics, Institut

d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Catalonia for the 2015 book Uncertain Futures.

Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment. Oxford & New York:

Wiley-Blackwell.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Extramural

“Social inclusion and the impact of Voiceitt on Identity and Talk in

Persons with Acquired Brain Injury.” Research contract between

2017-present



Curriculum Vitae

Voiceitt Enterprise and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

(CF615241, #16217), funded by the European Commission (Horizon

2020 H2020-SMEinst-2016-2017, H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017,

#779105). 121.000,00 €. P.I.: Melissa Moyer, P.I. Participation as Co-

Investigator.

“Talking the Talk: Tracking Communication and Understanding of the

Concept of a “Culture of Health.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

USD $285,066. P.I.: H. Waring. Grant # 73213. Participation as Co-

Principal Investigator.

2015-2018

Mayday Fund Awards, to attend the 5th

, 7th

-8th

Annual Training PICH

Institutes (Oak Island, Halfmoon Bay, and Far Hills, Canada)

2005-07

Mayday Fund Awards, to attend the 7th

International Symposium on

Pediatric Pain, Vancouver, Canada and the Annual Scientific Meeting of

the Canadian Pain Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

2005-06

American Pain Society Scholarship Award, to attend the two-day course

“Essentials of Pain Management: Principles and Practices,” and also the

23rd

Annual Scientific Meeting of APS. Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

2004

Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Scholarship Award. Alpha Association of Phi

Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California.

2002

NSF National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Grant #

0092576.

2001

Woodrow Wilson Johnson & Johnson’s Dissertation Grant in

Children’s Health.

2001

Spanish Department of Education-Fulbright Predoctoral Fellowship

(non-resident tuition, registration fees and stipend).

1995-1998

Fulbright Bilateral US-Spain Student Exchange Commission Award. 1995 -1996

Hunter College, CUNY

Project entitled “Verbal and Non-Verbal Transcription of Video-

Recordings for a Study of Doctor-Child Communication.” PSC CUNY

Grant Award Cycle-46 (Award # 68312-00 46). Budget: USD

$3,321.56. Participation as Principal Investigator

2015-2016

Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor 2013

Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2013

University of California, Los Angeles

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Biological, Clinical, and Cultural

Approaches to Trauma’s Effects Conference. Graduate Division grant to

attend this conference.

2002

Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Award. Office of

Instructional Development.

2002

Dissertation Year Fellowship. Graduate Division. 2002-2003

Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, Doctoral Candidate. Graduate

Division.

2002-2003



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Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, Doctoral Candidate. Graduate

Division.

2001-2002

Teaching Assistantships. Department of Anthropology. 2002, 1999

Doctoral Dissertation Award. Department of Anthropology. 2001

Teaching Assistantships. Department of Linguistics. 1999-2000

Pre-dissertation Summer Grant. Department of Anthropology. 1999

Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, International Graduate Student.

Graduate Division.

1999

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings Conference

Travel Grants. Graduate Division.

2002, 1998 & 1997

Universitat de Barcelona

Conference Travel Grant. Department of Catalan Philology. 1993

Fc. de B. Moll Philology Center. Estudi General Lul·lià and the

Department of Catalan Philology.

1993

Conference Travel Grant, Department of Catalan Philology. 1992

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Fieldwork and Research Projects

“Social inclusion and the impact of Voiceitt on Identity and Talk in

Persons with Acquired Brain Injury.” Among other goals, this project

aims to produce knowledge to help third parties develop and implement

particular technologies/applications that will improve speech impaired

people’s ability to communicate; and (b) to increase academic knowledge

on sociolinguistic approaches to communication in persons with acquired

brain injury and diagnosed with dysarthria. P.I.: Melissa Moyer.

Participation as Co-Investigator.

2017-present

“Talking the Talk: Tracking Communication and Understanding of the

Concept of a “Culture of Health.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

P.I.: H. Waring. Grant # 73213. Participation as Co-Principal

Investigator.

2015-present

DEPENAS Effectiveness Assessment of a Primary Care

Communication Intervention among Patients with Unexplained Medical

Symptoms. Research Unit of Bizkaia, Basque Health Service

(Osakidetza) Bilbao, Euskadi (Spain). Carlos III Institute of Health of the

Spanish Ministry of Health, and ERDF funding from the European

Union. P.I.: J.M. Aiarzaguena. FIS PI02/0795; RETICS G03/170 and

RD06/0018/0018. Participation as Co-Investigator.

2009-2015

COHESTIL (Textual Coherence and Discursive Styles) & CAP-UB 2009-2011



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(Catalan-Spanish-English Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multitextual

Corpus). Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. P.I.: L. Payrató.

FFI2008-01230/FILO, 2009-2011. Participation as co-investigator.

Boundary Crossings: Re-Situating Cultural Competence. NIH National

Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research and the NIH National

Institute of Child Health and Human Development. P.I.: M. Lawlor.

NCMRR/ NICHD 2-R01HD38878-06. Participation as Adjunct Research

Assistant Professor.

2008

PRAGMAESTIL (Pragmatics, Style, and Identities: Analysis of Verbal

and Non-Verbal features in the Discourse of Multilingual Speakers).

Spanish Ministry of Education. P.I.: L. Payrató. HUM2005-01936/FILO,

2006-01936. Award: €25,000.00. Participation as co-investigator.

2005-2008

Puberty and Gender Differences in Pain Responsivity. National Institute

of Dental and Craniofacial Research P.I.: L. K. Zeltzer. R01 DE12754-

01A1. Participation as Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

2008

Anxiety, Pain, and Self-Efficacy in Children. NIH National Institute of

Mental Health. P.I: M. Jacob. NIMH/R01 MH63 779. Participation as

Graduate Student Researcher (2003-2005) and as Postdoctoral Research

Fellow (2005-2007).

2003-2007

Exploring ethnolinguistic differences in the description of social and

physical pain. Ongoing investigation of how ethnolinguistic groups vary

in their use of the body (i.e. the heart, the bowels, the head) to express

social pain. Co-Researchers: T. Pira, Sydney Children’s Hospital, NSW

Australia, M. C. Grégoire, Dalhousie University, Canada.

2004-2008

VARCOM (Variation, Multimodal Communication and

Plurilingualism: Discursive Styles and Linguistic Awareness in the

Production of Oral Texts). Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

P.I.: L. Payrató. BFF-2001-3866, 2001-2004. Award: €75,089.56.

Participation as co-investigator.

2001-2004

Dissertation ethnographic research in Barcelona, Catalonia. Study of

language & children’s involvement during cancer treatment.

1997-2001

Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Pediatric Chronic Pain at

UCLA. Pilot study of pain narratives from an interdisciplinary

perspective (researchers from history, anthropology, pediatrics,

sociology). Co-P.I.: L. Zeltzer and M. Jacob. Participation as Graduate

Student Researcher.

1999-2000



Curriculum Vitae

Therapeutic Play-Games: Improving Children's Well-Being in

Sterilized-Isolating Rooms Following Bone Marrow Transplantation at

the Vall d’Hebron Children’s Hospital, Barcelona, Catalonia. Qualitative

assessment study of this psychological intervention after completion.

1998-1999

M.A. thesis research in Los Angeles, California. Ethnographic study of

two Amnesty International letter-writing group’s use of grammar (agency

and evidentiality) in the management of emotions so as to achieve

political impartiality.

1996-1998

CCCUB Corpus of Contemporary Catalan of the Universitat de

Barcelona (COC Oral Corpus of Conversation and COR Oral Corpus of

Registers). Spanish Ministry of Education and Catalan Government. P.I.

J. Viaplana. DGICYT PB97-0889 and CIRIT SGR98-00041.

Participation as pre-doctoral graduate student.

1994-1995

Traditional and Popular Culture in l’Alcalaten and el Maestrat,

València, Spain. Documentation, cataloguing, and recovery of XVII-XIX

Century dances and attire.

1990-1995

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Affiliations

AAA American Anthropological Association

SLA Society for Linguistic Anthropology

AAA Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group

ISCA International Society for Conversation Analysis

Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística

ACPV Acció Cultural del País Valencià

NYLAWG New York Linguistic Anthropology Working Group

Service

Reviewer for the following peer-reviewed journals

- Sociology of Health and Illness

- Pragmatics

- Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

- Patient Education and Counseling. Official journal of EACH,

the European Association for Communication in Healthcare and

AACH, the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare

- Humor. International Journal of Humor Research

- Issues in Applied Linguistics

- Ethos. Journal of The Society for Psychological Anthropology


http://www.each.nl/

http://www.aachonline.org/


Curriculum Vitae

- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Journal of The Society for

Linguistic Anthropology

- Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Official journal of the Society

of Pediatric Psychology

- Pain Research & Management. Official Journal of the Canadian

Pain Society

- Spanish in Context

Member. Scientific Committee, 2016 AACH American Academy on

Communication in Health Care, ENRICH & Research Forum, Yale

University New Haven, Connecticut

2016

Member. Scientific Committee, 13th

International Conference on

Communication and Healthcare Analysis ICCH New Orleans, Louisiana

2015-2016

Coordinator of the New York Linguistic Anthropology Working

Group

2012-2016

Linguistic Anthropology Minor Advisor. Department of

Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY. Previously, and together with Dr.

A. Reyes, I coordinated the Interdisciplinary Minor in Linguistics

2009-2015

Mentor and coordinator for all linguistic anthropology graduate and

undergraduate students

2008-2015

Support of the year-round activities of Hunter College Linguistics

Association

2010-2015

Support of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Annual

Undergraduate Linguistics and Language Study Conferences (HULLS),

organized by the Hunter College Linguistics Association and Dr.

Maryam Bakht

2010-2015

Co-organizer, with A. Nishizaka, of the double session Tactility as an

interactional resource, 4th

International Conference on Conversation

Analysis ICCA-14, University of California Los Angeles, 2014

2014

Member. Scientific Review Board, 4th

International Conference on

Conversation Analysis ICCA-14, University of California Los Angeles,

2014

2012-2014

Member of the Hunter College Senate

2012-2015

Undergraduate Advisor. Department of Anthropology, Hunter College

CUNY

Spring 2010



Curriculum Vitae

Co-organizer, with K. Sirota, of the session Social Identities at

Institutional Intersections: Children, Language, and Cultural Pathways,

108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Philadelphia, PA

2009

Moderator of the session Med(d)ling Minds: Linguistic intersections in

our own subdiscipline, Medical Anthropology at the Intersections:

Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, organized by the Society for

Medical Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven CT

2009

Co-director, with Dr. A. Reyes (Dept. of English) of Hunter’s

Interdisciplinary Minor in Linguistics, Hunter College CUNY

2008-2009

Co-organizer, with T. Stivers, of the session, Children’s participation

in clinical encounters: opportunities and limitations, 2nd International

Conference on Communication in Health Care, EACH European

Association for Communication in Health Care. Oslo, Norway

2008

Co-organizer, with D. Rosen, of the double session (invited status by

the Society for Psychological Anthropology and sponsored by the

Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group), Theorizing

Childhood: Including The Child’s Perspective In The Anthropology Of

Childhood, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, San Francisco, California

2008

Co-organizer, with T. Stivers, of the double session, Fittedness in

Question-Response Sequences, 94th Annual Convention of the National

Communication Association, San Diego, California

2008

Member. Scientific Program Committee, 7th

International Symposium

on Pediatric Pain, Acapulco Mexico, 2009

2008

Co-organizer, with M. Hardy, of the session Co-Narrating/Co-

Interpreting Memories of Violent, Painful, and Traumatic Experiences,

106th Conference of the American Anthropological Association,

Washington D.C.

2007

Co-organizer with C. Hay-Rollins (convener), L. Garro, J. Mitchell, R.

Lemelson, E. Anderson-Fye, of the discussion session Controlling Health

and Illness: A Problem of Agency, Biennial Meeting of the Society for

Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach, California

2007

Co-organizer and co-chair, with M. Buchbinder, of the double session

Families in pain: Illness, suffering and (inter)subjectivity, Biennial

Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan

2007



Curriculum Vitae

Beach, California

Chair and co-organizer, with L. Cohen and M. C. McMurtry, of the

workshop Assessment of Pediatric Pain: Methodological Considerations,

7th

International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2006

Co-organizer, with M. Meldrum, J. Tsao and M. Nutkiewicz, of the

workshop Mixed Methods at Work: Challenges and Opportunities in an

Integrative Quantitative-Qualitative Study of Pediatric Pain, 7th

International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2006

Co-organizer, with J. Sidnell, of the session Interaction across cultures:

Local practices, generic organization, 104th Conference of the American

Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.

2005

UCLA CLIC GSA Center for Language, Interaction and Culture

Graduate Student Association. I worked as conference organizer in 1996,

97, and 98, and as a reviewer in the selection of the submitted papers for

the 1999 Conference

1995-2000

UCLA Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory Coordinator. During six

quarters, I assisted Dr. Kroskrity and Dr. Goodwin in the coordination of

these seminars

1996 -1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching

FIWQS Freshman Writing Inquiry Seminar Undergraduate Course

“WCGI History & Culture: People”

Fall 2017

ANTH 202.00 Undergraduate Course “Languages and Dialects in

Cross-Cultural Perspective”

Fall 2017

ENGLISH 333.00/ ANTHC 325.76-02 Undergraduate Course

“Sociolinguistics”

Summer 2017

ANTHC 320.02/ ENG 333.77 Undergraduate Course “Language and

Body”

Spring 2017

ANTHC 320.81/ ANTH 771.53/ ENG 333.76 Undergraduate and

Graduate Course “Language and Power”

Fall 2016-

present (yearly)

ANTH-UA 16-001 Undergraduate Course “Language, Power, and

Identity”

Fall 2016

ANTHC 320.47/ ENG 333.65 Undergraduate Course “Youth and

Language: Politics of Childhood”

Spring 2016-

present (yearly)

ANTHC 401.39/ ANTH 771.55/ ENG 336.65 Undergraduate and

Graduate Course “Communication and Social Interaction”

Fall 2013-

present (yearly)

ANTHC 151.00 Undergraduate Course “Introduction to Linguistics” Spring 2009-

Spring 2016

(every semester)



Curriculum Vitae

ANTH 770 Graduate Course “Linguistics” Spring 2009-

Spring 2016

(yearly)

Mentoring of Students

PhD Graduate Students, Dissertation Committee Member

Jennie David, PhD candidate, Thesis defense draft entitled

“Considering Biologic Therapy in Pediatric Chronic Illness: A

Qualitative Examination of Adolescents’ and Caregivers’ Use of

Language in the Medical Decision-Making Process.” Jennie is

completing her PhD in the Clinical Psychology Program at Drexel

University.

Mirian Zavala, PhD dissertation entitled “The Lived Experiences of

Puerto Rican Single Mothers Raising Children in a Violent

Community.” Doctoral Nursing Science Program, Graduate

Center, CUNY. Dr. Zavala is currently Clinical Assistant

Professor at Pace University. In 2001, she received the Nurse of

the Year Award from the National Association of Hispanic

Nurses.

Karen V. Bourgeois, PhD dissertation entitled “Perceptions of Nursing

as a Career and Social Support in Hispanic Middle School

Females.” Doctoral Nursing Science Program, Graduate Center,

CUNY. Dr. Bourgeois is currently Instructor of Nursing at

Concordia College.

MA Graduate Students, Thesis Advisor/Sponsor and Mentor

Stephanie Feyne, MA thesis entitled “Interpreting Identity: The Impact

of Sign Language Interpreters on the Construction of the Situated

Identity of Deaf Professionals.” Stephanie’s thesis received the

2014 Shuster Awarded for Outstanding Master’s Degree Theses

by Hunter College’s School of Arts and Sciences.

Mauricio Hernandez (Thesis Second Reader). After obtaining his PhD

in Biological Anthropology at Cambridge University in 2015,

Mauricio is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Cotsen Institute

of Archeology, UCLA.

Peter J. Wilson, MA thesis entitled 'Speak For Yourself': Conversation

Analysis' Participant-Oriented Response to Social Inequalities.' In

Fall 2014, Peter began his PhD in the Faculty of Education at the

University of Hong Kong.

Amber B. Holden, MA thesis entitled “Understanding Multiple

Mentoring Relationships: Findings from a Mixed-Method Study

in a Clinical-Translational Context”

Stephanie Gilardi, Alice Carvalho Bonilha, Peter Bell, Pearl Shavzin-



Curriculum Vitae

Dremeaux, Stephanie Scimeca, Edward Graban, Brenda Prinzing

Undergraduate Student Advisor

Jacqueline Jean-Francois, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and

Interdisciplinary Studies

Undergraduate Research Assistants (also from the Interdepartmental

Minor in Linguistics)

Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and

Interdisciplinary Studies. Mary-Caitlyn is completing her joint

PhD in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Arizona

Daniel J. Robinson, Thomas Hunter Honors Program and Macaulay

Honors College at CUNY

Eugene Danyo, Thomas Hunter Honors Program, thesis entitled “The

Discursive Constructions of Foreign Relations: A Study of

Bolivian, and American Political Discourse”


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