Anna M. Babel

Anna M. Babel studies how people use language to express social identity, particularly in Spanish- and Quechua/Aymara-speaking communities in Bolivia and the Andean/Amazonian region. Her work examines topics like accent, pronunciation, and word borrowing as ways speakers signal belonging, tradition, or social meaning, and she also writes about language ideology, indigeneity, and sociolinguistic theory more broadly. Prospective students interested in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and Latin American language communities may find her research relevant.

Publication activity has been uneven over the last decade, with gaps in some years (e.g., 2020, 2022) followed by upticks in 2021 and 2025-2026, averaging under two publications per year over the last five years.

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