Anna Bax

Anna Bax, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts at California State University, Long Beach.

As a sociocultural linguist, Professor Bax’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersections between language, identity, power, and social justice.

Since 2015, Professor Bax has been involved in collaborative research with a community of Tu’un Savi (Mixtec) speakers living in California. Her ongoing work with this community has included projects on metalinguistic naming practices and language ideologies; youth language shift and language maintenance; the investigation of emergent sociolinguistic variation in a situation of intense dialect contact; and the raciolinguistic ideologies involved in media representations of Indigenous Mexicans.

Professor Bax holds a doctorate in linguistics with an emphasis in applied linguistics and language, culture, and social organization from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also has an M.A. degree in linguistics from UCSB and a B.A. in linguistics from Pomona College.