Scholarly Publications#
2025 : Kohavi, Noya, and Anna Weichselbraun . “Human Tests for Machine Models: What Lies ‘Beyond the Imitation Game’?” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 36 (1): 1–24.2025 : Lamoureaux, Siri, Michael Castelle, and Anna Weichselbraun . “Language Machines: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Large Language Models.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 36 (1): 1–30.2025 : “Die Epistemischen Affordanzen von Papier: Beobachtungen zur Digitalisierung eines Handbuchs” in Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology 121 (2): 231–52.2025 : "‘How Will I Know?’: Semiotic Indeterminacy, Transparency and Expectations of Sincerity in the Global Nuclear Order" in Signs and Society 13(1): 1–17.2023 : “Introduction: Technologies and Infrastructures of Trust,” with Ramah McKay and Shaila Seshia Galvin. Special Issue co-edited with Shaila Seshia Galvin and Ramah McKay. In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 41.2: 1–14.2023 : “Atomic Destruction.” In Handbook of the Anthropocene. Eds. Nathanaël Wallenhorst and Christoph Wulf. Springer Nature. 1477–1481.2023 : “Wort für Wort. Bedingungen der Analyse diplomatischer Wortprotokolle als historische Quellen.” (Word for Word. Analyzing diplomatic verbatim records as historical sources.) In Das Protokoll. Eds. Peter Plener, Niels Werber, Burkhardt Wolf. J.B. Metzler. 31–45.2023 : Problematisieren und Sorgetragen. Kulturanalytische Konzepte von Öffentlichkeit und Arbeitsweisen des Öffentlichmachens with eds. Mattias Beitl, Christian Elster, Alexa Färber, and Anna Weichselbraun. Buchreihe der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Band 30.2021 : “In Code We Trust: On the Semiotics of Blockchain” Kuckuck: Notizen zur Alltagskultur 36.1: 62–65.2020 : “From Accountants to Detectives: How Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors Make Knowledge at the IAEA.” In PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 43.1: 120–135. (PoLAR ’s most downloaded article in 2020.)2019 : “Of Broken Seals and Broken Promises: Attributing Intention at the IAEA.” In Cultural Anthropology 34.4: 503–528.2014 : “Language and Law.” (with Justin Richland) In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.2014 : "‘People Here Speak Five Languages!’: the Reindexicalization of Linguistic Minorityhood Among Carinthian Slovenes in Vienna, Austria." In Language in Society 43.4: 421–444.
Manuscripts in Preparation/Submitted#
Under contract : Nuclear Bureaucracy: IAEA Safeguards and the Epistemic Politics of Verification , Cornell University Press, Cultures of Expertise series.
Reviews#
2023 : Nielsen and Nielsen, Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction. Routledge Research in Language and Communication. In Language in Society , 52.3 June.2018 : Containment. Directed and produced by Peter Galison and Robb Moss. Redacted Pictures, 2015. 81 minutes.Environmental History , Volume 23, Issue 2, 2018: 393–396.2015 : Dan Jurafsky, The Language of Food: a Linguist Reads the Menu. In Allegra Lab , May 12.2009 : Gisèle Sapiro, ed. Translatio. Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation . In Revue de Synthèse , Dec.
Public Scholarship#
2024 : “The Constitutions of Web3” with Joshua Tan, Max Langenkamp, Ann Brody, and Lucia Korpas. Metagov.org., https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.00081 .2022 : “Trust, truth, and the blockchain.” In Allegra Lab , September.2022 : “Technologies of Trust: Introduction,” with Shaila Seshia Galvin and Ramah McKay. In Allegra Lab , September.2021 : “Chronotopos Corona.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , LXXV.1: 81–85.2020 : “Corona Chronotopes.” In Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights , Editor’s Forum on Covid-19, April 27.2018 : “Not Talking about Disarmament at the IAEA: How Nonproliferation Rules Ensure That Nuclear Weapons Are Here to Stay.” In Anthropology News , 59.4: 42–43.2017 : “Don’t Assume Trump Is More Responsible with Nuclear Weapons than North Korea.” In The Guardian , Jul 6.2017 : "‘Crisis Talk’ in Crisis and Nuclear Scholars’ Responsibility to Imagine." In First 100 Days: Harvard STS Blog , Apr 14.2015 : “Increasing Transparency at the IAEA Archives.” In Issue Brief No. 4 , Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Mar 3.