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William Washabaugh

  • Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Education

  • PhD, Wayne State University

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 012 - Origin and Evolution of Language
  • ANTH 013 - Sign Languages and the Deaf
  • ANTH 014 - Foundations of Flamenco Music
  • ANTH 104 - World Ethnography
  • ANTH 150 - Multicultural America
  • ANTH 193 - Freshman Seminar: Museums: Gateways to Modern Life
  • ANTH 302 - Anthropology and Popular Culture
  • ANTH 328 - Music, Gender, and Nationalism

Research Interests

  • Linguistic anthropology
  • Popular culture studies

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.