MIC Related Research | Dr. Elinor Ochs

Elinor Ochs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture at UCLA. Primary among her interests is the role of language and culture in human development. Her study of Samoan children and caregivers helped to develop the field of language socialization. She has also provided an ethnographic account of the lives of children with autism. From 2001-2010 she directed the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives of Families. Her research on families has been reported in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. Among honors Ochs has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member.