Melissa Sue Maceyko

Dr. Melissa Maceyko is a linguistic anthropologist specializing in discourse analysis and democratic practice. Her areas of research have included social movement building; corruption; political advertising; gender and sexuality; language endangerment; and social justice issues related to language variation. She is interested in how anthropological knowledge can be used to solve big problems and build human sociality. She has conducted research in Papua New Guinea and the United States, and is beginning a new research project in Bulgaria.