Heidi Minning

Major Influences on Professional Life:

The greatest influence was meeting Linguistic Anthropologists at the 1997 Summer Linguistics Institute of the LSA – Kira Hall, Bonnie McElhinny; also Deborah Tannen and Penny Eckert

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Linguistics, Gender Studies

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Family constructions, pronouns and labeling practice, code-switching

Regions of specialization and Languages:

Germany, Germanic Languages

Major Publications:

"Lesbian in der Wissenschaft" in UK2 (1999) Dec-Jan

Current Research, Interests, Goals:

Working with Amnesty International special section for human rights of g/l/b/t/q people in Berlin, Germany on the publication of a German edition of the book Breaking the Silence which deals with human rights violations based on sexual orientation world wide.