Courtney Handman

Courtney Handman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in linguistic anthropology and Melanesian studies. With a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, she explores intersections between language, religion, and infrastructures.

• Research Trajectory: From analyzing Protestant Christian translation projects in Papua New Guinea to examining decolonization-era circulation infrastructures, her work now investigates AI's role in redefining human-nonhuman communication.
• Teaching: Offers courses like Humans and AI, Culture and Communication, and Language and Posthumanism, exploring themes from invented languages to non-human communication systems.

Her recent publications address algorithmic translation, colonial infrastructures, and cross-species communication frameworks.

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