ROBIN CONLEY
Robin Conley is currently Visiting Instructor of Anthropology at Marshall University.
She received her PhD in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation investigates how jurors make decisions in Texas death penalty trials, focusing on how language constructs defendants as particular legal, moral and cultural subjects and how these constructions influence jurors’ decisions. She has published additional research addressing the legal, medical and linguistic constraints on transgendered identity construction and the narrative tools actual jurors use to make decisions in Political and Legal Anthropology Review and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Her research and teaching emphasize legal and institutional discourse, violence and empathy in democratic processes, ethnographic methods and theory, and gender and language in society.