Bambi B. Schieffelin (born April 26, 1945) is a linguistic anthropologist and professor emerita at New York University (NYU) in the department of Anthropology.[1] Along with Elinor Ochs, she pioneered the field of language socialization.[2] In addition, she has written extensively about language contact, language ideology, literacy, Haitian Creole, and missionization.[3]