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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Charles L. Briggs is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Virology, Genetics, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The main topics covered in their work include zoonotic diseases and public health, rabies epidemiology and control, geographies of human-animal interactions, misinformation and its impacts, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, communication and COVID-19 impact, and language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Clara Mantini-Briggs, Rachel Lee, Daniel C. Hallin, Hugo Spinelli, and Anahí Sy.

They have published in several academic venues multiple times, including:

  • American Anthropologist
  • Encounters in Translation.
  • Comunicación y Sociedad
  • Medical Anthropology
  • International Health

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Charles L. Briggs include:

  • "Mediatización de las epidemias: la cobertura sobre la pandemia de la gripe A (H1N1) de 2009 en Argentina, Estados Unidos y Venezuela", 2020, Comunicación y Sociedad
  • "Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide: Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19", 2020, Medical Anthropology
  • "The Amazonian Tropical Bites Research Initiative, a hope for resolving zoonotic neglected tropical diseases in the One Health era", 2022, International Health
  • "Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID-19", 2021, American Anthropologist
  • "Incommunicable: Decolonizing perspectives on language and health", 2023, American Anthropologist

Charles L. Briggs has also contributed to scholarly books, notably the publication titled "Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge" in 2021, published by Utah State University eBooks.

In 1994, they were recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • POETICS AND PERFORMANCE AS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL LIFE

    Richard Bauman;Charles L. Briggs

  • Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power

    Charles L. Briggs;Richard Bauman

  • Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

    Richard Bauman;Charles L. Briggs

  • Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Anthropology, Interviewing, and Communicability in Contemporary Society

    Charles L. Briggs

  • The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the “Invention of Tradition”

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Theorizing modernity conspiratorially: Science, scale, and the political economy of public discourse in explanations of a cholera epidemic

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

    Charles L. Briggs;Daniel C. Hallin

  • Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

    C. L. Briggs;C. Mantini-Briggs

  • Interviewing, Power/Knowledge and Social Inequality

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Metadiscursive practices and scholarly authority in folkloristics

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Biocommunicability and the biopolitics of pandemic threats.

    Charles L. Briggs;Mark Nichter

  • “since I am a woman, I will chastise my relatives”: gender, reported speech, and the (re)production of social relations in Warao ritual wailing

    Charles L. Briggs

  • Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality

    James Stanlaw;Charles L. Briggs

  • Biocommunicability THE NEOLIBERAL SUBJECT AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS IN NEWS COVERAGE OF HEALTH ISSUES

    Charles L. Briggs;Daniel C. Hallin

  • Learning How to Ask: Native Metacommunicative Competence and the Incompetence of Fieldworkers.

    Charles L. Briggs

  • "The Foundation of All Future Researches": Franz Boas, Native American Texts, and the Construction of Modernity

    Charles L. Briggs;Richard Bauman

  • Learning how to ask: Interview techniques vis-à-vis native metacommunicative repertoires; or, on the analysis of communicative blunders

    Charles L. Briggs

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