Frances Alethea Marti

UCLA Dept of Anthropology
Haines Hall 341, Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Doctoral candidate in linguistic anthropology at UCLA, with an undergraduate degree in cognitive science from UC Berkeley. Predoctoral Fellow with the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and graduate student member of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture. Currently serving as coordinator/liaison for the Anthropology/Sociology Digital Media Lab.

Current Research Focus: child language socialization, economic morality and diversification in family home businesses in urban Latin America.
Other research interests include: peer socialization, adolescence and emerging adulthood, online communities, gender, gossip and logic.
Nonacademic interests include: web design, photography, and drawing.

Advisors: Elinor Ochs, Marjorie Goodwin, Yunxiang Yan, Patricia Greenfield.

(Last updated January 2012)