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Paja Faudree is a linguistic anthropologist whose research interests include language and politics, indigenous literary and social movements, the interface between music and language, the ethnohistory of New World colonization, and the global marketing of indigenous rights discourses and indigenous knowledge. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, and comes to Brown following a Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She joined the anthropology department faculty in 2007, and is affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Professor Faudree teaches courses on language and society, social movements in Latin America, language and politics, and the linguistic dimensions of music. She is also a published poet and playwright, having previously completed an MFA from Brown's literary arts program.