Department faculty are involved in ongoing research on race and cultural diversity (Moses, Fay, McMullin, Gailey); cognition and cultural models (Kronenfeld, Harvey, McMullin); linguistics and semantics (Harvey, Kronenfeld, Taube); language and discursive practices (Ness, Sutherland, McMullin, Schwenkel, Kronenfeld); critical social and cultural theory (Ossman, Patterson, Ashmore, Schwenkel, Ryer, McMullin, Gailey).