| Representing language, culture, and language users in textbooks: A critical approach to Swahili multiculturalism KD Thompson The Modern Language Journal 97 (4), 947-964, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Zanzibari women’s discursive and sexual agency: Violating gendered speech prohibitions through talk about supernatural sex KD Thompson Discourse & Society 22 (1), 3-20, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Popobawa: Tanzanian talk, global misreadings KD Thompson Indiana University Press, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast EE Stiles, KD Thompson Ohio University Press, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Swahili Learners' Reference Grammar. African Language Learners' Reference Grammar Series. KD Thompson, AF Schleicher National African Language Resource Center (NALRC), University of Wisconsin …, 2001 | 29 | 2001 |
| How to be a good Muslim wife: Women’s performance of Islamic authority during Swahili weddings KD Thompson Journal of Religion in Africa 41 (4), 427-448, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| When I was a Swahili woman: The possibilities and perils of “going native” in a culture of secrecy KD Thompson Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48 (5), 674-699, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Becoming Muslims with a “Queer voice”: Indexical disjuncture in the talk of LGBT members of the progressive Muslim community KD Thompson Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 30 (1), 123-144, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Strategies for taming a Swahili husband: Zanzibari women's talk about love in Islamic marriages KD Thompson Agenda 27 (2), 65-75, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| “I am Maasai”: Interpreting ethnic parody in Bongo Flava KD Thompson Language in Society 39 (4), 493-520, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| Keeping it real: reality and representation in Maasai Hip-Hop KD Thompson Journal of African Cultural Studies 20 (1), 33-44, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Discreet talk about supernatural sodomy, transgressive gender performance, and male same-sex desire in Zanzibar town KD Thompson GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21 (4), 521-559, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Zimbabwe's cinematic arts: Language, power, identity KD Thompson Indiana University Press, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
| African studies keyword: Autoethnography K Mara, KD Thompson African Studies Review 65 (2), 372-398, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Making Space for Embodied Voices, Diverse Bodies, and Multiple Genders in Nonconformist Friday Prayers: A Queer Feminist Ethnography of Progressive Muslims’ Performative … KD Thompson American Anthropologist 122 (4), 876-890, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| The stereotype in Tanzania [n] comics: Swahili and the ethnic other KD Thompson International Journal of Comic Art 8 (2), 228-247, 2006 | 13 | 2006 |
| Learning to Use Profanity and Sacred Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar KD Thompson Gendered lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, marriage, and sexuality …, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Swahili talk about supernatural sodomy: Intertextuality, the obligation to tell, and the transgression of norms in coastal Tanzania KD Thompson Critical Discourse Studies 11 (1), 71-94, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts: Language, Power KD Thompson Identity, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| The Mother Tongue and Bilingual Hysteria: Translation Metaphors in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions KD Thompson The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43 (2), 49-63, 2008 | 8 | 2008 |
