Uju Anya

Anya's measurable achievements are scholarly. Her Google Scholar profile records about 1,025 citations, a respectable figure for a critical applied linguist working on race and multilingualism, and she holds an associate professorship at Carnegie Mellon, one of the more selective research universities in the United States. She has been invited to speak at Penn State's Global Virtual Forum and contributes to the field through publications and lectures. Her public recognition, by contrast, comes from controversy rather than commendation, which makes the usual accolades framing awkward: the things she is best known for are news events, not honors.