Shonna Trinch
Shonna Trinch (Anthropology) received her PhD in Spanish Linguistics in 1999 from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book, Latina Women’s Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence, (John Benjamins, 2003) investigates how women’s stories of domestic abuse and rape change and are changed, as they are cast from one legal genre into another. She has published extensively on this topic in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Language in Society, Text and Talk, Dialectical Anthropology, and the Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict. Shonna continues her work on violence against women, and she and colleague, Barbara Cassidy have been developing and facilitating a student-led theater project of campus rape prevention, that begins with a course they co-teach for the Interdisciplinary Studies Department called, Seeing Rape. In the course, they examine representations of rape in theater, film, literature, short stories, activism, culture and law. At the end of the course, they stage readings of the plays written by their students with professional New York City actors.
Currently Shonna is writing two books with anthropology professor and colleague, Edward Snajdr, on Brooklyn’s urban redevelopment from data they collected on more than a decade-long longitudinal study, two years of which were funded by the National Science Foundation’s program in Cultural Anthropology. This project examines sociocultural, sociolinguistic and discursive aspects of how cities get built. Focusing on Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park, they study how people compete, collaborate and conflict in their attempts to fix meanings and materials on land. Professors Trinch and Snajdr have already published an article in the Journal of Sociolinguistics on this work entitled, "What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance of capitalism without distinction in Brooklyn,” and another article, “When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment and the Dissociative State” is under review at the Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology, (PoLAR).
Currently Shonna is writing two books with anthropology professor and colleague, Edward Snajdr, on Brooklyn’s urban redevelopment from data they collected on more than a decade-long longitudinal study, two years of which were funded by the National Science Foundation’s program in Cultural Anthropology. This project examines sociocultural, sociolinguistic and discursive aspects of how cities get built. Focusing on Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park, they study how people compete, collaborate and conflict in their attempts to fix meanings and materials on land. Professors Trinch and Snajdr have already published an article in the Journal of Sociolinguistics on this work entitled, "What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance of capitalism without distinction in Brooklyn,” and another article, “When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment and the Dissociative State” is under review at the Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology, (PoLAR).