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Kamala Russell

Assistant Professor in Anthropology Kamala Russell

Area of Study

Department of Anthropology

Kamala Russell

Assistant Professor in Anthropology

Kamala Russell specializes in linguistic anthropology as well as the anthropology of Islam and the Middle East. Her research focuses on speakers of the Śḥehrēt Modern South Arabian language, located in the Dhofar mountains of the Sultanate of Oman, and she has broader interests in the Arab grammatical tradition, co-speech gesture, psychoanalysis, and the linguistics of contact and change. 

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