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Janet McIntosh

Janet McIntosh

Janet McIntosh is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of two award-winning ethnographies based in East Africa and co-editor, with Norma Mendoza-Denton, of Language in the Trump Era. She is currently working on a book about American military language and the veterans who write poetry and work through other art forms to reckon with their military service.

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