https://www.pearlshavzin.com/about daily 1.0 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/45d45431-4aff-4894-8fc2-aca00746bfbb/np_design-thinking_4021183.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/f8d460c1-24e3-48aa-afdd-f3440c183f10/np_sketch_4021458.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/793a5ece-8536-4b8a-88ca-e57b0e5c10ec/noun-hobbies-3683675.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.pearlshavzin.com/academic daily 0.75 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/1564778559434-X7RI8RGFB4HC6R7LT4N3/TitlePage_Gulping+Brews.jpg Academic Projects “Gulping Brews…” was developed for a panel at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. This panel, "Materiality in and Through the Lens of Food," focused on how social and cultural meanings are associated with food and drink. My talk focused on a Budweiser ad that first aired during the 2015 Super Bowl. Using that ad and internet comments made in response to it, I discussed how the (culturally defined) categories of "macro" and "craft" beer become linked to different ideas of masculinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/1564169828179-NH6II7Q2NCTB1Y9TK87I/UnamericanTongues.jpg Academic Projects The presentation for “Unamerican Tongues” was given at the 2013 Annual Conference for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA). This interdisciplinary academic conference focused on popular and American cultural studies. “Unamerican Tongues” focused on a case study I did which used early episodes of a food travelogue series. This series was hosted by Eddie Huang, a chef, author, and media personality. (The series was originally known as Fresh Off the Boat, but later renamed Huang’s World). This case study later became the foundation of my master’s thesis, “Rice, Rap, and Based FOBs: Food Discourse and Asian American Identity.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d31f9451abe780001b2c366/1564267256894-8LQWEBR53T918421RYT4/PShavzin-MAThesis_Screenshot.jpg Academic Projects This is my September 2014 thesis, submitted for my Masters degree in Linguistic Anthropology (Hunter College, CUNY). Abstract: Research, while limited, has shown that some Asian Americans may employ features of African American English or racist or stereotypical attitudes in the performance of their “Asianness,” and the indexical link between consumables, speech, and social position has also been established. However, while talk about food can be used as an interactional resource in the day-to-day performance of an ethnically- or racially-linked identity, work that links language and food has been limited. Using a media-based example (Eddie Huang on Vice's 'Fresh Off the Boat') I show how talk about different foods—including pronunciation and accent, use of foreign language words, and speaking as an “expert”—can be used as a resource by a speaker to present themselves as a member in an ethnic group or to show identification with broader racial categories. Through this case study, I will demonstrate how this practice takes place through the use of a variety of registers and styles that index food knowledge and ethnic identity, and how there can be clear differences in the ways of speaking employed depending on the ethno-racial links that a particular food is understood to have.