Anthony J. Harb

Dr. Harb is an interdisciplinary scholar of language and media whose research examines how discursive practices both shape and are shaped by social inequalities along the axes of language, race, immigration status, disability, and occupation. Drawing on the fields of Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Education, Ethnic Studies, and Communication and Media Studies, his research explores these questions in relation to and alongside Latinx and Arab communities. Harb's work within Latinx immigrant communities examines the role of voice on Spanish-language community radio in the U.S. and raciolinguistic identity negotiation in the Spanish-language college classroom. His work on Palestine has centered around English- and Arabic-language news media coverage of the genocide in Gaza, and film representations of disability of Palestine. Across these varied modalities and contexts, his research asks: how are marginalized communities rendered visible, audible, or erased through dominant communicative regimes, and how do the communities themselves respond to and resist their marginalization through language, education, and media practices?

Harb’s work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. He was also named one of the 2024 Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellows from the Council on Anthropology and Education, and one of the 2026-27 Society of Hellman Fellows.

Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures (CUNY Graduate Center)

B.A. in Spanish (Carleton College)

Avilés, T., & Harb, A.J. (2022). “It wasn’t just about learning how to speak Spanish”: Engaging Histories of Oppression and Enslavement in Spanish Heritage Language Education. Journal of Latinos and Education, 22(5), 1815–1829. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2022.2051039

Harb, A.J., Stern, N., & Padía, L. (2025). Bearing witness from the imperial core: Film as a lens on life with a disability under occupation and genocide. Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 3(1), 12–18. https://doi.org/10.48516/jcscd_2025vol3iss1.41

Doufesh, B., Ewaida, B., & Harb, A. J. (2025). Strategic narrative alignment: Arabic-language coverage of 2023 Israel’s war on Gaza on Al Jazeera, DW Arabic, and Al Hurra. International Communication Gazette, 88(4), 429-449. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485251406820

Harb, A.J. (2026). Todavía es lenguaje: Latinas Negotiating Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Community-Engaged Spanish Class. In Medina, Y. & Rios Vega, J. (Eds.). LatCrit and Education: Dismantling the Norm and Creating Visibility in Higher Education. Peter Lang.

Undergraduate Courses

COMM 100A: Communication, the Person and Everyday Life

COMM 110X: Texting & Talking

COMM 168: Bilingual Communication 

COMM 190: Latines Languaging Toward Justice

Graduate Courses

COGR 219: Discourse and Organizations

COGR 275: Languages, Schools, Colonial Rules