Education

Teaching

• Introduction to Social Thought
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Language and Social Diversity
• Race & Ethnicity: Social Relations in the "Post-racial" Era
• Ethnic Comparative Relations: Beyond Boundaries

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Sociology & Anthropology BA

Research

Research Interests

• Everyday interactions and the reproduction of social hierarchies
• Language, power, and race
• Social hierarchies among women
• Indigenous people & South America

Select publications

• Margarita Huayhua (2018).
  Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations among Women in the Southern Andes
  Indigenous Languages, Politics and Authority in Latin America edited by Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim, 231-246.
• Margarita Huayhua (2016).
  Social Subordination and Language
  The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology edited by Nancy Bonvillain, 109-124.
• Margarita Huayhua (2014).
  Racism and Social Interaction in a Southern Peruvian combi
  Ethnic and Racial Studies 3, 37(13), 2399-2417.

Margarita Huayhua (PhD University of Michigan 2010) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Huayhua is a sociocultural anthropologist with a background in linguistic anthropology, video production, translation, Quechua language, and education.