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Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n Ph.D, Yale University 1999<\/em><\/p>\n Office:<\/strong> Powdermaker Hall 312D <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/07\/Makihara_Rodriguez_Language.jpg” title_text=”Makihara visuals.indd” url=”https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MakiharaLanguage” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”65%” max_width=”65%” module_alignment=”right” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/04\/Cover.jpg” alt=”Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange book cover” title_text=”Cover” align=”right” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_margin=”0px|||0px|false|false” custom_padding=”|||0px|false|false” custom_css_free_form=”.selector img {|| width: 50%;|| height: auto;||}||.selector img {|| width: 150%;||}” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-35px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|||0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Miki Makihara is a linguistic anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Queens College and the Ph.D. Programs in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY). She studies communication and society, and is interested in understanding the ways in which interaction contributes to maintaining and transforming community and inequality. Her research combines ethnography, discourse analysis, and oral history. She has been engaged in long-term research on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and written about its sociolinguistic situation, multilingualism, Indigenous and ethnic identity formation, communicative ideologies, and language reclamation and revitalization. She is currently working on politics of stance-taking and social change.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion closed_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Research Focus” open=”on” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Courses Taught” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”22px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Juan L. Rodr\u00edguez. 2025. Language and Political Subjectivity:<\/strong> Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela.<\/strong> New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. (link to book details)<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Juan Rodr\u00edguez A. 2022a. Lived Beliefs. Persuasion and Self in Rapa Nui Poetry<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>Language, Culture, and Society<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>4(1):47-67.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Berrios, M., V. Haoa, M. Makihara, and J. Conning. 2022b. Medici\u00f3n Ling\u00fc\u00edstica a estudiantes de Educaci\u00f3n Parvularia, Ense\u00f1anza B\u00e1sica y Media de Rapa Nui<\/strong>, 2021\u20132022 Informe Final de Resultados. Hanga Roa, Easter Island. UNESCO Report.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2021.\u00a0<\/span>Syncr\u00e9tisme linguistique et id\u00e9ologies langagi\u00e8res : transformation de la \u00ab diglossie coloniale \u00bb \u00e0 Rapa Nui (\u00cele de P\u00e2ques)<\/b>. In\u00a0<\/span>Cr\u00e9oles, pidgins et id\u00e9ologies linguistiques dans le Pacifique<\/i>, edited by Leslie Vandeputte and V\u00e9ronique Fillol, pp. 201-235. Paris: L\u2019Harmattan. Cahiers du Pacifique sud contemporain. Paris, L\u2019Harmattan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Bambi Schieffelin. 2021.\u00a0<\/span>Rencontres interculturelles, trajectoires langagi\u00e8res et id\u00e9ologies linguistiques dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s du Pacifique<\/b>. In\u00a0<\/span>Cr\u00e9oles, pidgins et id\u00e9ologies linguistiques dans le Pacifique<\/i>, edited by Leslie Vandeputte and V\u00e9ronique Fillol, pp. 96-137. Cahiers du Pacifique sud contemporain. Paris: L\u2019Harmattan.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Juan Rodr\u00edguez A. 2020.\u00a0<\/span>Anthropology of Language Contact and its Sociocultural Contexts<\/b>. In\u00a0<\/span>Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology<\/i>, edited by J. Jackson Jr. Oxford University Press.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Rodr\u00edguez, Juan, and Miki Makihara. 2019.\u00a0<\/span>Postura, poder y pol\u00edtica<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>Anuario de Glotopol\u00edtica<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>3<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Lane, Pia, and Miki Makihara. 2017.\u00a0<\/span>Indigenous Peoples and Their Languages<\/b>. In\u00a0<\/span>Handbook of Language and Society<\/i>, edited by Ofelia Garcia, Nelson Flores, and Max Spotti, pp. 299\u2013319. Oxford University Press.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Alag\u00f6zl\u00fc, Nuray, and Miki Makihara. 2015.\u00a0<\/span>Conflict Resolution Strategies in Turkish and American Speech Communities: A School Setting<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET)<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>2(3):177\u201397.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2013.\u00a0<\/span>Language, Competence, Use, Ideology, and Community on Rapa Nui<\/b>. Special issue on \u201cCentering and Decentering Communicative Competence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Language & Communication\u00a0<\/span><\/i>33(4):439\u201349. Issue editors: Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Keiko Ikeda, and Niko Besnier.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2010.\u00a0<\/span>Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)<\/b>. In\u00a0<\/span>Anthropological Linguistics: Theories and Practices<\/i>, edited by Bambi Schieffelin and Paul Garrett, Vol. 5, pp. 182\u2013203. Routledge.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2010.\u00a0<\/span>Anthropology<\/strong>. In\u00a0<\/span>Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity<\/em>, 2nd edition, edited by Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garc\u00eda, pp.32-48. New York: Oxford University Press.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2009.\u00a0<\/span>Heterogeneity in Linguistic Practice, Competence, and Ideology: Language and Community on Easter Island<\/strong>. In\u00a0<\/span>The Native Speaker Concept: Ethnographic Investigations of Native Speaker Effects<\/em>, edited by Neriko M. Doerr, pp.249-275. Mouton de Gruyter.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Tomlinson, Matt, and Miki Makihara. 2009.\u00a0<\/span>New Paths in the Linguistic Anthropology of Oceania<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>Annual Review of Anthropology<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>38:17-31.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2009.\u00a0<\/span>El lenguaje en Rapa Nui<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>In\u00a0Kuhane Rapa Nui, en las islas del Pac\u00edfico<\/em>, edited by Claudio G\u00f3mez and Marcos Rauch, pp.26-28. Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda.<\/span><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Bambi B. Schieffelin (eds.). 2007.\u00a0<\/span>Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>Oxford University Press<\/a>. (Available as a\u00a0<\/span>QC Library Ebook here<\/a>)<\/p>\n Makihara, Miki, and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 2007.\u00a0<\/span>Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>. In\u00a0<\/span>Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies<\/em>, edited by Miki Makihara and Bambi Schieffelin, pp.3-29. New York: Oxford University Press.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2007.\u00a0<\/span>Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse<\/strong>. In\u00a0<\/span>Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies<\/em>, edited by Miki Makihara and Bambi Schieffelin, pp.49-69. New York: Oxford University Press.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2005.\u00a0<\/span>Rapa Nui Ways of Speaking Spanish: Language Shift and Socialization on Easter Island<\/strong>. Language in Society 34(5): 727-762.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2005.\u00a0<\/span>Being Rapa Nui, Speaking Spanish: Children’s Voices on Easter Island<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>Anthropological Theory<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>5(2):117-134.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2005.\u00a0<\/span>Rapa Nui<\/strong>. In\u00a0<\/span>Encyclopedia of Anthropology<\/em>, edited by H. James Birx, pp.1985-1989. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2004.\u00a0<\/span>Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui ( Easter Island )<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>American Anthropologist<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>106(3):529-540.\u00a0<\/span>PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n Makihara, Miki. 2002.\u00a0<\/span>Book review of Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities, edited by Paul Kroskrity (Advanced Seminar Series, School of American Research Press , 2000)<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>American Ethnologist<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>29(1):176-177.<\/p>\n
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