Windows of opportunity: South Asian-American teenagers and the promise of technology in Silicon Valley
Shalini Shankar
Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies
Northwestern University, IL
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, race & ethnicity, diaspora and migration, youth, media, advertising, semiotics, South Asian diaspora, Asian diasporas, United States.
Shalini Shankar is Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on youth, media, language use, race/ ethnicity, and Asian diasporas. She is the author of Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley (Duke UP 2008), Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers (Duke UP 2015), and Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal about Generation Z’s New Path to Success (Basic Books, 2019). She is co-editor of Language and Materiality: Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives (Cambridge 2017) with Jillian Cavanaugh. Shankar is a John Simon Guggenheim fellow, and her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and other sources