Veerendra Lele

Associate Professor

Chair of Anthropology

Assistant Coach, Women’s Soccer

740-587-5765

Biography

I am a broadly trained semiotic anthropologist. My primary research interests involve analyses of material culture and temporality. My primary field site is in Ireland, in Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) communities. I teach the full range of courses in anthropology, from our introductory course to our senior seminar, as well as elective courses including semiotic anthropology, and the anthropology of soccer. I am also an assistant coach for the women’s soccer team.

Degree(s)

A.B., Cornell University; M.A., Georgetown University; M.A., University of Michigan; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Works

Publications

Selected Publications:

Summer 2016, “Soccer as Ethnography”, Anthropology News.
November 2014, Book review of Olaf Zenker’s Irish/ness Is All around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland. American Ethnologist, v. 41, issue 4
Summer 2014, “Response to Sluis and Edwards, ‘Rethinking Combined Departments’” in Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (LATISS) v.7, n.2
2012, “Semiotic Ideologies of Race: Racial Profiling and Retroduction” in Recherches sémiotiques/ Semiotic Inquiry (RS/SI) v. 32
2010, “Lessons in Racial Identity and Kinship” Anthropology News May 2010
2009, ” ‘It’s not really a nickname, it’s a method’: Local Names, State Intimates, and Kinship Register in the Irish Gaeltacht”. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology v. 19:1
2008, “Demographic Modernity” in Ireland: a cultural analysis of citizenship, migration, and fertility”. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (JSAE). v.8:1
2007, “Reading Dialogic Correspondence: Synge’s The Aran Islands”. New Hibernia Review. Geimhreadh/Winter 11:4
2006, “Material Habits, Identity, Semeiotic”. Journal of Social Archaeology. 6:1
2005, Book Review of S. Muthu’s “Enlightenment Against Empire”. American Anthropologist. v.107:2