ANLI PhD students present at AAA

William M. Cotter, Jessica Ray, and Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, all joint Ph.D. students in Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona recently traveled to Minneapolis, MN to present their research at the 115th meeting of the American Anthropological Association. William delivered a paper on discourse within professional barista competitions and the links between these forms of discourse and broader transnational economic regimes that effect the global coffee industry. Together Mary-Caitlyn and Jessica co-presented their ongoing work on the media uptake of whiteness in discussions surrounding mass shootings that have happened in recent years in the United States.