“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.
Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson on LinkedIn
Topics include
– anthropology
– networking
– transferable skills
– ethnography
– qualitative research
– quantitative research
– focus groups
– sociolinguistics
– discourse analysis
– fandom
