Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann

Biography

Shaylih Muehlmann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) specializing in the intersections of language, sustainability, and transnationalism. Her work critically examines how environmental conflict and linguistic identity shape social processes and contribute to the construction of inequality. Muehlmann is the author of several significant works, including 'River Ends: Contested Indigeneity Mexican Colorado Delta' (Duke University Press, 2013) and 'Wear Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture US-Mexico Borderlands' (University of California Press, 2015). She has contributed numerous articles and book chapters to the field and has received recognition for her research, most notably as a Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture, and Environment. In 2012, she was awarded the Junior Scholar Prize by the Anthropology Environment Society and the Ton Vallen Award from Tilburg University. Muehlmann's research interests lie in the areas of environmental politics, linguistic anthropology, drug trafficking, indigeneity, and water scarcity, specifically within the contexts of the US-Mexico borderlands and Mexico.

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