Department of Anthropology
341 Haines Hall
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Research:
My work investigates the embodied interactive language practices through which members of social groups constitute their social and emotional life. I am concerned with the role of gender, friendship, power, and exclusion in children's peer groups. In my work at the Center for Everyday Lives of Families I explore negotiation and knowledge exploration as dynamic processes within families.

Selected Publications:

Goodwin, M. H. (in press). Occasioned Knowledge Exploration in Family Interaction. Discourse and Society. 18(1).

Goodwin, M. H. (in press). Competitive Play among Preadolescent Girls. The Chicago Companion to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Goodwin, M. H. (2006). The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion. Blackwell.

Goodwin, M. H. (2006). Participation, Affect, and Trajectory in Family Directive/Response Sequences. Text and Talk 26:4/5: 513-542. Special issue edited by Deborah Tannen and Marjorie H. Goodwin

Goodwin, M. H. & Goodwin, C. (1999). Emotion within Situated Activity. Communication: An Arena of Development. Nancy Budwig, Ina C. Uzgiris and James V. Wertsch, eds. pp. 33-54. Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Selected Courses:
Anthropology 242: The Ethnography of Communication