Timothy Y. Loh, PhD

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library This article examines competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) among deaf and hearing people in Amman, based on ethnographic fieldwork at an educational start-up for deaf children and...

pub day with the Journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social! this is the first piece out of my book project on assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan, and is about different ways people in Amman talk about Jordanian Sign Language. open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚

Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky

Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a co...

Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...

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Mara Green on her book, Making Sense Timothy Loh: Thank you so much for this wonderful and incisive book! It’s such an exciting contribution not only to deaf anthropology and sign language studies but also to the broader study of how …

i interviewed Mara Green on her wonderful new book, Making Sense, about signing, ethics, and communication in Nepal on the CaMP Anthropology blog! check it out here: campanthropology.org/2025/02/17/m...

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May this ceasefire last. May it be the first of many steps towards liberation for Palestinians. May Sudan follow!

#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period.

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In July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.

UN Commission: The IDF Is Raping, Killing, & Torturing Palestinians Legacy media has conducted a near blackout of this damning report and the Biden administration is refusing to act to uphold international human rights law

Remember when Israel bombed ONE Gaza hospital causing outrage & Israeli Govt declared “We don’t bomb hospitals it was actually Hamas.”

UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.

But it’s not genocide😐
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If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦

my Bluesky handle is now @timothyyloh.com!

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!

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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
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Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.

I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad
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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.

Sharing a recent article by @timloh.bsky.social: “An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.” #disabilityanthropology #disabilityjustice

thanks for sharing!

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️

#disability #anthropology #ethnography
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Starter pack for sociolinguistics.
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Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add!

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Looking forward to discussing this piece by @timloh.bsky.social with my intro disability studies class at @utsc.bsky.social this week!

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I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8

🙌Starter pack on Disability, Neurodivergence & Chronic illness
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I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!

It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.

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