Natasha Shrikant PhD, (she/her), is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Natasha uses qualitative methods, namely ethnography and discourse analysis, to analyze how social interaction constitutes identities and inequalities. She is interested in the ‘micro’ details of how people use language in different ways at different times and why that’s important for thinking about broader issues of identity, culture, race/ism, and inequality. Her research has explored (a) how Asian Americans construct race, ethnicity, and diversity in an Asian American organization and (b) how meanings of “racism” are constituted and contested in online and political discourses.
Sample Publications:
Shrikant, N. (2022). Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors. Language in Society, 51(2), 237–258. doi:10.1017/S0047404520000846
Shrikant, N. (2021). Cultural difference as a resource for arguments in institutional interactions. Communication Monographs, 88(2), 219–236.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1776351
Shrikant, N. (2018). “There’s no such thing as Asian”: A membership categorization analysis of cross-cultural adaptation in an Asian American business community. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(4), 286–303. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2018.1478986
