Michael Wroblewski (Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2010) is a linguistic anthropologist with specialization in language variation, identity, and politics. His research in Amazonian Ecuador combines linguistic and cultural anthropological approaches to the study of Indigenous Kichwa language revitalization, interculturality, and multilingualism. His current research in Valdres, Norway focuses on the interconnected environmental, cultural, and linguistic dimensions of changing heritage practices around transhumant farming. 

Selected Publications:

Book

Wroblewski, Michael. 2021. Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. DOI: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/remaking-kichwa-9781350115552/

Articles and Chapters

Wroblewski, Michael and Thea Strand. 2026. Regretting Reforestation: Discourses of Landscape and Culture Change in Mountain-Farming Norway. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70013.

Strand, Thea and Michael Wroblewski. 2025. Teaching Transcription for Social Justice in Linguistic Anthropology. Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal 7 (2): 65-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5070/T3.42206.

Wroblewski, Michael. 2021. Practice(s); Practice-based approaches. In International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, edited by James Stanlaw. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0322

Wroblewski, Michael. 2020. Inscribing Indigeneity: Ethnolinguistic Authority in the Linguistic Landscape of Amazonian Ecuador. Multilingua 39(2): 139-168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0127

Wroblewski, Michael. 2019. Performing Pluralism: Language, Indigeneity, and Ritual Activism in Amazonia. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 24(1): 181-202. DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12387

Strand, Thea and Michael Wroblewski. 2018. Heritage Language. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0184

Wroblewski, Michael. 2014. Public Indigeneity, Language Revitalization, and Intercultural Planning in a Native Amazonian Beauty Pageant. American Anthropologist 116 (1): 65-80. DOI: 10.1111/aman.12067

Wroblewski, Michael. 2012. Amazonian Kichwa Proper: Ethnolinguistic Domain in Pan-Indian Ecuador. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22(1): 64-86. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01134.x

Wroblewski, Michael. 2011. Uneven Voices: Languages of Interculturality in Amazonian Ecuador. In Politics of Interculturality. Edited by Fred Dervin, Anahy Gajardo, and Anne Lavanchy, 47-70. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wroblewski, Michael, Thea Strand, and Sylvie Dubois. 2010. Mapping a Dialect “Mixtury”: Acoustic Innovations in African American Vowels in Southern Louisiana. In African American English Speakers and their Participation in Local Sound Changes: A Comparative Study, Publication of the American Dialect Society #94. Edited by Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Erik Thomas, 48-72. Duke Univ. Press.

Strand, Thea R., Michael Wroblewski and Mary K. Good. 2010. Words, Woods, Woyds: Variation and Accommodation in Schwar Realization among African American, White, and Houma Men in Southern Louisiana. Journal of English Linguistics 38(3): 211-229. DOI: 10.1177/0075424210373040