Episode #59: Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson

“In customer research, if there is any group that’s capacitated to just go out and talk to people, it’s linguists”

Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson earned her Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics in a joint program from the University of Arizona in 2019. Her dissertation research was on fandoms – the way communities engage with pop culture. After finishing her doctoral degree, she taught at Appalachian State University for three years. In August 2022, she took a position with Universal Parks and Resorts in Orlando, Florida, where she works as a manager of ethnographic research.

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Topics include

– anthropology – networking – transferable skills – ethnography – qualitative research – quantitative research – focus groups – sociolinguistics – discourse analysis – fandom

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