Michael Hesson

Michael Hesson

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Anthropology

    Associate Professor - Instructional and Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Global Studies
    • Latin American Studies
Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 662

Expertise

Language and Culture, Social and Cultural Theory, Anthropology of Time, Ethnohistory, Semiotics, Latin America

Biography

Michael Hesson received his A.B. with honors in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. After graduating, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the School of Arts and Sciences, in the Wharton School of Business, as well as at Temple University in the Department of Anthropology.

Selected Publications

  • 2005 La Calle de los Niños (Series: Antropo-visiones). Visual Anthropology Review 21(1-2):170a-172.
  • 2005 Artes y Oficios Mexicanos (Series: Antropo-visiones). Visual Anthropology Review 21(1-2):170b-172.
  • 2006 Henri Bergson. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 1. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 343-344. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
  • 2006 Time in Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 5. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 2197-2200. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
  • 2006 Ethnohistory. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 2. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 854-857. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. In preparation: "The 'Now' of Mayaness: Time, Identity, and Cultural Deixis" for a special issue of the journal Pragmatics. 

In preparation:

  • Subordination and Resistance: Discourse Genres in Tozzer's A Maya Grammar

Courses Taught

  • Language in Society (Honors)
  • Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (Honors)
  • Maya Language and Culture
  • Peoples of Latin America
  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Writing-Intensive)
  • World Regions & Cultures