Melissa Sue Maceyko

Melissa Sue Maceyko

Education History

Research Focus and Teaching Specialties

Awards

• Awarded $4,650 summer grant through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at
  California State University, Long Beach
• Awarded $18,000 through the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of the Vice
  president for Information Technology at the University of Virginia (2009-2010).
• Awarded $5,000 annually through Graduate Opportunity Fellowship from the University of
  Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (August 2007-May 2010).
• Awarded Alden Trustee Scholarship from Allegheny College of $10,000 annually (2000-2004).
• Awarded Elks Leadership Scholarship of $5,000 annually (2000-2004).
• Awarded Norfolk Southern Leadership Scholarship of $2,000 annually (2000-2004).
• Sophomore year inductee and Selection Committee Chair for Lambda Sigma Honor Society.
• Junior year inductee into Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society.
• Senior year inductee into Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.

Presentations and Symposia

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting
Presenter November 2018
• Session title: “Language and the Political Landscape: Creating Authority, Community, and
Nationalism.” Paper entitled “Discursive Political Practice and American Democracy.’”

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting
Presenter and Panel Chair December 2017
• Session title: “Accountability, Expertise, and Embodiment in Interaction.” Paper entitled
“Authenticity and Persuasion in American Politics: Campaign Volunteers and Discursive
Practice in the Era of ‘Big Data.’”

Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), Bi-Annual Conference at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenter May 2017
• Paper entitled “The Use of Overlap and Latching in “Feminine” and “Effective” Discursive
Political Practice: A Case Study in Pennsylvania.”

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting
Presenter November 2015
• Session title: “Mediating Forces: Toward a Linguistic Anthropological Understanding of
Constrained Agency.” Paper entitled “Citizen-to-Citizen Political Activism: Contested Discursive
Practices for Effective Political Action in Pennsylvania.” Discussant: Alessandro Duranti (UCLA).

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting
Presenter November 2013
• Session title: “Democracy Aesthetics.” Paper entitled “Performing the Political and the Apolitical
as Democratic Participation in the United States.”

Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), Bi-Annual Conference at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenter May 2013
• Paper entitled “Stylistic Variation, Authoritative Stance, and the Negotiation of Democratic
Political Action in Western Pennsylvania.”

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting
Presenter November 2011
• Session title: “Gossip, Confession, and Innuendo: Family Resemblances, Social Processes, and
Interstitial Linguistic Practices.” Paper entitled “Talking Politics Like A Man: Gendering
Politically Active Women.” Discussant: Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam).

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Annual Meeting
Presenter, Working Session February 2010
• Session title: “Villages and their Alters in Melanesian Social Worlds.” Organized by Courtney
Handman and Rupert Stasch. Paper entitled “Married to the Holiday Inn: the Middle Class
Wautogik Diaspora and ‘Villagization’ in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.”

Symposium on “Anthropology Outside the Academy,” University of Virginia
Organizer April 2008
• Organized symposium, in conjunction with four fellow graduate students, to raise awareness
about the merits of applied anthropology. Symposium consisted of three lectures and one
workshop delivered by accomplished professionals who had used their anthropological training
in non-academic professions.