Jillian R. Cavanaugh is an American anthropologist and academic administrator. She is a professor and associate dean of anthropology at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

. Cavanaugh is the president-elect of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Cavanaugh was raised in Colorado. She earned a B.A. as an independent major in sociolinguistics from Vassar College in 1993. She completed a M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) in anthropology at New York University.

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