Aurora Donzelli

I am a linguistic and cultural anthropologist with an expertise in Indonesian and Austronesian languages and a strong interest in the intersection between language and neoliberalism.

My work in Southeast Asia (and beyond) focuses on the nexus between language, politics, and morality to explore ethnographically the relation between structural transformations and everyday communicative practices.

Prior to joining the Department of History, Cultures, and Civilizations, I held research and teaching appointments in Europe and the US, including Sarah Lawrence, in New York, the University of Milano-Bicocca, the Institute of Social Sciences and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, in Lisbon. I am the recipient of research grants as Principal Investigator from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and I am published by Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge Core, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, University of Hawaii Press, NUS Press, among others.