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Anna Bax, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts at Cal State Long Beach.

As a sociocultural linguist, her teaching and research interests focus on the intersections of language, identity, power, and social justice.

Since 2015, she has been involved in collaborative research with a community of Tu’un Savi (Mixtec) speakers living in California. Her ongoing work with this community includes projects on metalinguistic naming practices and language ideologies; youth language shift and language maintenance; the investigation of emergent sociolinguistic variation in a situation of intense dialect contact; and the raciolinguistic ideologies involved in media representations of Indigenous Mexicans.

She holds a doctorate in linguistics, with an emphasis in applied linguistics and language, culture, and social organization, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also holds an M.A. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.A. in linguistics from Pomona College.