Background
Hall, Kira was born on October 10, 1962 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Leo and Arlene (McElroy) Hall.
Hall, Kira was born on October 10, 1962 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Leo and Arlene (McElroy) Hall.
Hall received her Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held previous academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.
The majority of Hall"s work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. She is currently writing a book on the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a transgender group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sexual" She is well known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.
Member American Anthropol. Association, Linguistics Society of America, Association for Feminist Anthropology, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Society Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics.