PUBLISHED WORKS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS (Click on titles for webpages or pdfs)

Blog Articles

Books and Edited Volumes

Davis, Christina P. 2020. The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press, Anthropology of Language Series.

LaDousa, Chaise and Christina Davis, eds. 2022. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia. New York: Routledge.

Special Journal Issues

Das, Sonia, Christina P. Davis, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, eds. In preparation, 2022. Special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in honor of Judith T. Irvine.

Davis, Christina P. and Chaise LaDousa, eds. 2020. Special issue of Signs and Society (8[1]): “Sign and Script in South Asia: Media and Semiotic Mediation.”

Peer Reviewed Articles

(In Progress) Davis, Christina. 2022. “Memes, Emojis, and Text: The Semiotics of Differentiation in Sri Lankan Tamil Social Media Groups.” Special Issue, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

(In Progress) Das, Sonia, Christina P. Davis, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway. 2022. Introduction. Special Issue, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

Davis, Christina. 2020. “Trilingual Blunders: Signboards, Social Media, and Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Publics.” Special Issue, Signs and Society 8(1): 93–124.

Davis, Christina and Chaise LaDousa. 2020. “Introduction: Sign and Script in South Asia: Media and Semiotic Mediation.” Special issue, Signs and Society 8(1): 1–7.

Davis, Christina P. 2018. “Muslims in Sri Lankan Language Politics: A Study of Tamil- and English-Medium Education.” Special Issue. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 253 (1): 125–147.

LaDousa, Chaise and Christina P. Davis. 2018. “Introduction: The Changing Relationships between Language and Schooling in India and Sri Lanka: Language Medium Matters.” Special Issue. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 253(1): 1–26.

Davis, Christina P. 2015. “Speaking Conflict: Ideological Barriers to Bilingual Policy Implementation in Civil War Sri Lanka.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 46(2): 95–112.

Davis, Christina P. 2014. “Voicing Conflict: Moral Evaluation and Responsibility in a Sri Lankan Muslim Family’s Conversations.” Language & Communication 39:1–13.

Davis, Christina P. 2012. “Is Jaffna Tamil the Best?” Producing ‘Legitimate’ Language in a Multilingual Sri Lankan School. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22(2):197–218.

Davis, Christina P., and Grant P. Upson. 2005. “Spectatorship, Fandom, and Nationalism in the South Asian Diaspora: the ’03 Cricket World Cup.” International Journal of the History of Sport, 21:3/4.

Book Chapters, Working Papers, and Reviews

Davis, Christina P. 2022. Muslims in Sri Lankan Language Politics: A Study of Tamil- and English-Medium Education. In Chaise LaDousa and Christina P. Davis (eds.), Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia. New York: Routledge.

LaDousa, Chaise and Christina P. Davis. 2022. Medium in South Asia: Ethnography, Discourse, and Policy. In Chaise LaDousa and Christina P. Davis (eds.), Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia. New York: Routledge.

Davis, Christina. 2017. Review of Das, S. (2016) Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts. New York: Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(3): 368–379.

Davis, Christina P. 2013. “Locating Voicing: Multilingualism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Configuration of Difference among Sri Lankan Muslims.” Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. University of Tilburg. Paper # 62.

Davis, Christina P., and Grant P. Upson. 2005. “Spectatorship, Fandom, and Nationalism in the South Asian Diaspora: the ’03 Cricket World Cup.” In Boria Majumdar and J. A. Mangam (eds.), Sport in South Asian Society Past and Present, with an Introduction by Dipesh Chakrabarty (295–313). London: Routledge.

Blogs and Interviews

Interview on The Struggle for a Multilingual Future,  CaMP Anthropology Blog, October 2020.

Christina P. Davis’s “The Struggle for a Multilingual Future.” The Page 99 Test.

Growing Up in the Shadow of Sri Lanka’s Civil War. 2020. OUPBlog.