Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Marjorie Goodwin, a linguistic anthropologist at UCLA College of Social Sciences, focuses on how language, touch and other embodied practices shape human interactions. Her work has examined how members of children鈥檚 peer groups, families and workplace groups use everyday language and communication to construct social order, express intimacy and navigate ideas about moral behavior.
Through her research and influential books, including The Hidden Life of Girls, He-Said-She-Said, and Embodied Family Choreography (with Asta Cekaite), Goodwin has helped advance our understanding of human social dynamics and the ways people use their language, their bodies and their emotions to manage relationships and create meaning.
She is currently working on a book, with Dr. Federica Raia and Dr. Mario Deng, about how a cancer patient learns to experience dying as a part of living.