Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton (born 1968) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[2][3] Mendoza-Denton earned a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1997 with the completion of her dissertation, Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School.
[7] In 2020, she published a collection of essays, co-edited with linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh, examining the politics of language during the Trump presidency.
[9] She has also been active in the Linguistic Society of America, including serving on the Executive Committee from 2018 through 2020.
[10][11] In 2011 she received a National Institute for Civil Discourse grant for her work analyzing the ways in which politicians handle disagreements with their constituents.