Kira Hall is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
[1][2] The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality.
A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a nonbinary group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."
She is known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.
[3] Hall received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley,[4] writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.