{"id":3045,"date":"2022-10-28T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=3045"},"modified":"2023-10-19T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:14:58","slug":"celebrating-the-life-and-work-of-dr-leila-monaghan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/celebrating-the-life-and-work-of-dr-leila-monaghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Leila Monaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Leila Monaghan<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2951 size-portrait-image-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/Leila-Monaghan-1-150x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/Leila-Monaghan-1-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/Leila-Monaghan-1-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Leila Monaghan\u2019s contribution as a linguistic anthropologist and activist was far-reaching, with most of her writing and research in the areas of deaf sociality, disability justice, equity, and social justice. As a teacher, and colleague, Leila was kind, fun, compassionate, and an ardent supporter of her friends, students, and colleagues. As a scholar, her work contributed to disrupting and transforming unjust social institutions, as shown in the titles of books she edited and articles she published including \u201cmany ways of being deaf\u201d and \u201cdeaf cultures in global perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-2950 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/leila-monaghan-300x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Monaghan published many books and articles, such as those pictured here. Read more of her work on her <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=PRYWefIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">google scholar page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2955 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/interpersonal-communication-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/interpersonal-communication-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/interpersonal-communication.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2954 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/deaf-empowerment-book-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/deaf-empowerment-book-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/deaf-empowerment-book-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/deaf-empowerment-book-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/deaf-empowerment-book.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2953 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/barriers-of-belonging-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/barriers-of-belonging-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/barriers-of-belonging-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/barriers-of-belonging-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/barriers-of-belonging.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She also wrote about women&#8217;s experiences at the Battle of Little Bighorn from a Linguistic Anthropology Perspective and about topics such as Ebonics. Her work emphasized empowerment and decolonization for all of the communities she worked with. Listen to her talk, pictured below <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpXTFdf66Go\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpXTFdf66Go\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2956 size-landscape-image-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/little-bighorn-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/little-bighorn-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/little-bighorn-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/little-bighorn-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2957 size-landscape-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/ebonics-article-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/ebonics-article-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/ebonics-article-232x174.jpg 232w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/345\/ebonics-article-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>We miss Leila and will not forget her.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Leila Monaghan Dr. Leila Monaghan\u2019s contribution as a linguistic anthropologist and activist was far-reaching, with most of her writing and research in the areas of deaf sociality, disability justice, equity, and social justice. As a teacher, and colleague, Leila was kind, fun, compassionate, and an ardent supporter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":541,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3045","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}