Dr. Alicia Wassink (Department of Linguistics) and Dr. Jamaal Muwwakkil (Department of Anthropology) recently hosted a workshop for the Linguistic Society of America’s Language, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Special Interest Group on June 4-6th. The workshop, sponsored by a micro-grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), brought together an international group of participants, including junior and early-career linguists, workshop leaders, and members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Language, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (LCP). It provided writing support, networking and mentorship for early career scholars who conduct investigations into the ways that language takes center stage in conflict, harm or redress; how it is used (in interpersonal, disciplinary or global contexts) to divide and disempower or to build unity and connection. To be eligible for the award, awardees were asked to demonstrate ways that they have experienced precarity in the field: either intellectual marginalization, social exclusion, financial instability, personal background-related factors or some combination of these.