Department of Anthropology
University Museum Room 426
Bio
Andrew M. Carruthers is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist specializing in Malay-speaking archipelagic Southeast Asia. He studies the relation between language, movement, and mobilities as a source of insight into the ways people co-create — and so navigate — shifting fields of possibility in their everyday lives.
Education
Ph.D., Yale University (2016)
M.Phil., Yale University (2012)
Visiting, Fakultas Ilmu Bahasa, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia (2010)
A.B., Cornell University (2009)
Visiting, Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (2008)
Research Interests
Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology; semiotics; pragmatics and speculative pragmatism; borders, mobilities, and infrastructures; commensuration and contrastive evaluation; Southeast Asian studies; Indonesia and Malaysia.
Selected Publications
2020. "Intensity, Infrastructure, Aquatectonics." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Volume 38, Issue 5, pp. 820-825.
2019. "Policing Intensity." Public Culture. Volume 31, Number 3, pp. 469-496.
2018. “Living on the Edge: Being Malay (and Bugis) in the Riau Islands.” Trends in Southeast Asia. Number 12, pp. 1-54.
2017b. “Grading Qualities and (Un)settling Equivalences: Undocumented Migration, Commensuration, and Intrusive Phonosonics in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 124-150.
2017a. “‘Their Accent Would Betray Them’: Undocumented Immigrants and the Sound of ‘Illegality’ in the Malaysian Borderlands.” SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Volume 32, Number 2, pp. 221-259.
Courses Taught
ANTH 642: Ethnographies in Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 628: Language in Culture and Society: Special Topics
ANTH 626: Intensity
ANTH 550: Movement, Mobility, Migration
ANTH 255: Southeast Asia
ANTH 202: Language, Migration, Diaspora
ANTH 114: Migration and Borders