Judith Irvine

{{Short description|American anthropologist and linguist}}

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| birth_name = Judith Temkin

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|03|10}}

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| occupation = {{hlist|Anthropologist|linguist|professor}}

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| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania {{small|(Ph.D.)}}

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Judith Temkin Irvine (born March 10, 1945) is the Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she researches language use in African social life to create social hierarchy.{{Cite web|last=Mori|first=Ishi|url=https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/faculty-members-elected-national-academy-sciences|title=Faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences|website=The Michigan Daily|date=May 7, 2016|access-date=2016-05-19}}{{cite web |title=Judith Temkin Irvine |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/61759.html |website=National Academy of Sciences}}

Irvine earned her Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web |title=Judith T. Irvine |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/anthro/people/emeritus/jti.html |website=U-M LSA Anthropology |access-date=June 27, 2021}} She began teaching in 1972 in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1999. Irvine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005,{{cite web |title=Judith T. Irvine |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/judith-t-irvine/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=June 27, 2021}} and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.{{cite web |title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected |url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=May 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052951/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |date=May 3, 2016 |url-status=dead}}