Books
| 2019 | Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands. Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. |
Peer Reviewed Articles
| 2021 | Berman, Elise and Vicki Collet. Marshallese Families’ Reported Experiences of Home-school Connections: An Asset-based Model for Critiquing “Parental Involvement” Frameworks and Understanding Remote Schooling during COVID-19. Human Organization. 80(4): 311-321. pdf |
| 2021 | Berman, Elise and Benjamin Smith. De-Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization. American Anthropologist. 123(3): 590-602. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/aman.13624. pdf |
| 2021 | Collet, Vicki and Elise Berman. “It will change traditional school in a very positive way”: Educators’ perspectives of the Marshallese experience during spring 2020 remote learning. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2021.1873005 |
| 2020 | Berta, Ola Gunhildrud, Elise Berman, and Albious Latour. COVID-19 and the Marshallese. Oceania 90 (Suppl 1): 53-59. |
| 2020 | Avoiding Sharing: How People Help Each Other Get Out of Giving. Current Anthropology. 61(2):219-239. |
| 2018 | Force Signs: Ideologies of Corporal Discipline in Academia and the Marshall Islands. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. PDF |
| 2014 | Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the Sociolinguistic Construction of Childhood in the Marshall Islands. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 24(2):109-132. PDF Selected by the editors as the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology’s 2014 contribution to Déjà Lu (2016, issue 4), the e-journal of the World Council of Anthropological Associations. |
| 2014 | Holding On: Adoption, Kinship Tensions, and Pregnancy in the Marshall Islands. American Anthropologist. 116(3):578-590. PDF |
| 2011 | The Irony of Immaturity: K’iche’ Children as Mediators and Buffers in Adult Social Interactions. Childhood 18(2):274-288. PDF |
| 2009 | Voices of Outreach: The Construction of Identity and Maintenance of Social Ties among Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 48(1):69-85. PDF |
Other Publications and Blog Posts
| 2016 | Aged Culture. Life Course Blog. Life Course Collaborative Research Network, February 8. |
| 2013 | Passive First-Person Recordings: A New Way to Study Children. Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Interest Group Newsletter. 5(1):3-4. PDF |
| 2012 | Children Have Nothing to Hide: Deception, Age, and Avoiding Giving in the Marshall Islands. PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago. Children Have Nothing to Hide |