Dr. Schulthies is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist specializing in North Africa and the Middle East, with a research focus on the productive nexus of Moroccan communicative ideologies, state/transnational Arab identity projects, media practices, and plant-human relationality. After completing a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies at BYU, she received her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She was most recently an Associate Professor at Rutgers University.
Select Publications:
2021 Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality. Fordham University Press.
2020 Phytocommunicability and Plant-Human Sociality Ethnos 86(2):199-206
2018 Linguistic Anthropology Approaches to Arabic. In Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, edited by Reem Bassiouney and Elabbas Benmamoun. New York: Routledge, 439-453.
2015 Do You Speak Arabic? Axes of Adequation and Difference in Pan-Arab Talent Programs. Language and Communication 44:59-71
2014 Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn Early and Becky Schulthies, eds. 3rd edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.