Nicholas Q. Emlen
Nicholas Q. Emlen is a linguistic anthropologist who has conducted extensive ethnographic field research about multilingualism, economic change, and deforestation on the Andean-Amazonian coffee frontier of Southern Peru. During the course of his research he has also become interested in the global cocaine trade, which has emerged as an important and destabilizing force in the parts of South America where he works. On the basis of these experiences, he has taught a course called Cocaine: the social life of a global commodity in the Honours College. Nick's first book, Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier (University of Arizona Press), was published in 2020.