Arienne M. Dwyer CV

Arienne M. Dwyer

University of Kansas Department of Anthropology

1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Fraser Hall 638 Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
anthlinguist@ku.edu
Tel: 785-864-2649

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Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2012–present.

Courtesy affiliation in Linguistics; Core Faculty member of two Title VI Centers for East Asian Studies, and for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas, 2003–present.

Co-Founder & Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2010–2017.

Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, January–June 2013.

Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2008–2012.

Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2001–2008.

Humboldt Scholar (postdoctoral) and Lecturer in Turkology, Seminar für Orientkunde, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1997–2001.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics and Literatures, University of Washington, 1996. M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, University of Washington, 1990.

B.A. in Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 1984.

Fluent in Mandarin, Uyghur, German and (slightly rusty) French; native speaker of Am. English.

High intermediate competence in Japanese and NW Chinese, Salar, and Kyrgyz.

Reading competence in Classical Chinese, Manchu, pre-13th c. Turkic, some Mongolian and Russian. Learning Monguor, Wutun, and Baonan.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Language contact and variation (areal processes, typology, creolization, discourse and ideologies)

Digital Humanities, corpora, archiving, cyberinfrastructure: Methods, tools, cultural practices and standards for analyzing data and representing knowledge; XML; spatial analysis, digital editions

Research and archiving methods, open access, data ethics

China; Chinese Inner Asia (especially Xinjiang and Qinghai); the CIS; Transeurasian interactions

Language endangerment and revitalization; language technologies

Sinitic, Turkic, and Mongolic languages

Language and cultural ideology and performance, narratology and ethnopoetics

Correlates of climate change and cultural/linguistic change

FORMALIZED EXTERNAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Open Society Institute Academic Fellow (Nonresident Scholar), American U of Central Asia Anthropology Department, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2006–2007.

Joint researcher: Cross-linguistic studies on Clause Combining at the Research Institute for Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo. Project URL and documents online (2010–2013).

Joint Researcher: Comparative Study on the Languages of the North [Asia] from Typological Perspective at the Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo. Project URL and documents online (2010-2013).

Joint project: The teaching of Amazigh culture, with Dr. Hassan Zaid and Prof. Yamina El-Kirat, 2014– 2015, Universite Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.

RESEARCH PRIZES AND AWARDS

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2014, taken in 2015-2016)

Balfour Jeffreys Career Research Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Kansas, 2009.

Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society inductee, 2017.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductee, 2008.

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bursary Award (Linguistic Corpora), 1997.

IN-SITU (“FIELD”) RESEARCH
Family: [ISO 639 Lg. code] (Date, Location: Topic)

Sinitic [zhx]: 1985–1986 (Taipei, Taiwan: comparative Sinitic)

Minnan [nan] (1987; 1988 Seattle, USA: Hainan Min phonology)

Zhongyuan Mandarin [zgyu] (1987–1988 Seattle, USA: Hezhou phonology; 1991–1993 Urumchi, China: Nanjiang Mandarin; 1993 Amdo Tibet [Xunhua county, Qinghai], China: comparative syntax; June 2000 Amdo [Gannan]: hua’er song festivals & religious practice; ) Wutun [wuh] (6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 Amdo [Tongren, Qinghai]: language description and oral history; Jun-Jul 2004 : Wutun legends; March 2015: Wutun pre-initials)

Bodic: Amdo Tibetan [adx] (June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gannan]: love songs (layi)) Choni Tibetan [cda] (June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gannan]: Turkic [trk]:

Modern Uyghur [uig] (1991–1993 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang]: language study; 7.97, 10.98, 2.99, 7.00 dialectology and discourse; May 2005 Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., USA:

Uyghur Language purism; June 2010 Eugene, Oregon: Frog Stories; July 2015 Chinese

Turkestan [Xinjiang]: Uyghur Automated Speech Recognition)

Kazakh [kaz] (1991–1993 Chinese Turkestan: language study; 1993.2 Amdo Tibet [Gansu]: dialogic love songs and oral history)

Kyrgyz [kir] (Aug 2004 Naryn, Kochkor, Issyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz legends; May 2008

Jalalabad & Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Language policy and language attitudes; July 2009 Issyk Köl,

Kyrgyzstan: Blessings and curses in Kyrgyz)

Salar [slr] (1992–93, 8.1997, 8.98, 1.99, 7.00 Amdo [Xunhua & Hualong, Qinghai], China: language & history; Oct 2006 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang], China: Salar architecture &

archaeology; Aug 2011 comparative lexicography and grammar) Mongolic [xgn] :

SE Monguor [mjg] (Mangghuer) (July 2000 Amdo [Minhe, Qinghai]: dialogic love songs; 67.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 history and diffusion; Jan-Feb 2003 grammatical description; 7-8.2005, 25.2006 Lawrence, KS: grammatical description; 7-8.2006 healing practices)

N Monguor [mjg] (Mongghul) (6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 Amdo [Huzhu, Qinghai]: history and diffusion; Jan 2005 morphology)

W Bonan [peh] ( 6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02, 01-02.2003; 7-8.2005 grammatical description and oral history

Indo-European [ine]: Plautdietsch [pdt] , Palatinate German [pfl] (Mar-May 2005 Ellis Co., Douglas Co., Kansas, USA: dialectology)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

1. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2005. The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse. Policy Studies 15. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington. Pdf: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/PS015.pdf

2. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Salar: a study in Inner Asian areal contact processes, Part I: Phonology. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

3. Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer, eds. 2008. Lessons from documented endangered languages. Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

4. Engesæth, Tarjei, Mahire Yakup, and Arienne Dwyer. 2010 [2009]. Teklimakandin Salam: hazirqi zaman Uyghur tili qollanmisi / Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas ScholarWorks. ISBN 978-1-936153-03-9. Version 1.1. Pdf with streaming audio. Open Access publication, currently at 30,000 downloads. Mirror site: http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/mon/2010/ppn%20618306412.pdf

5. (Under contract) Dwyer, Arienne M. Salar: a study in Inner Asian areal contact processes, Part II: Grammar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED)

N.B.: All single-authored unless otherwise listed. The book chapters in this section have been as rigorously peer-reviewed as journal articles. Non-peer-reviewed chapters are found in the next section. Preprints available.

1. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1992. Altaic Elements in the Línxià dialect [of NW Chinese]: Contact-

induced Change on the Yellow River Plateau / 臨夏方言的阿爾台語成分: 黃河高原的語言交叉及其變化 (in English). Journal of Chinese Linguistics 20.1: 160–179. Preprint.

2. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1994. The Salars of China: from Central Asia to the Yellow River plateau. Multiethnic Studies (Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 32): 9–20.

3. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. From the Northwestern Chinese Sprachbund: Xúnhuà Chinese Dialect

Data. 從中國西北部的語言區域關係體: 循化話語言材料. The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫 Vol I: 143–182. Preprint.

4. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1998. The Texture of Tongues: Languages and Power in China. In William Safran, ed., Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 4.1/2: Special Issue. Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China. Frank Cass, pp. 68–85. Preprint.

5. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1998. The Turkic Stratigraphy of Salar: An Oghuz in Chagatay Clothes? Turkic Languages2.1: 49–83. Pdf.

6. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1998. Language Contact in Qumul. Journal of Central Asian Studies 3.1: 30–41. Preprint.

7. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2000. Direct and Indirect Experience in Salar. In Bo Utas and Lars Johanson, eds. Evidentials. Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 45–59. Preprint.

8. Johnson, Heidi and Arienne Dwyer. 2002. Customizing the IMDI metadata schema for endangered languages,Proceedings of the International LREC [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference] Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics pp. 5-1–5-5.

9. Wittenberg, Peter, Ulrike Mosel and Arienne Dwyer. 2002. The DOBES Archive: goals and long-term prospects, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Paris: ELRA. Vol 1, pp. 36–42.

10. Brenzinger, Matthias, Arienne M. Dwyer, Tjeerd de Graaf, Colette Grinevald, Michael Krauss,

Osahito Miyaoka, Nicholas Ostler, Osamu Sakiyama, María E. Villalón, Akira Y. Yamamoto, Ofelia Zepeda [=UNESCO Expert Committee on Endangered Languages]. 2003. Language Vitality and Endangerment.UNESCO, adopted March 2003.

11. Brenzinger, Matthias, Arienne M. Dwyer, Tjeerd de Graaf, Colette Grinevald, Michael Krauss, Osahito Miyaoka, Nicholas Ostler, Osamu Sakiyama, María E. Villalón, Akira Y. Yamamoto, Ofelia Zepeda [= UNESCO Expert Committee on Endangered Languages]. 2003. Recommendations for action plans. UNESCO, adopted March 2003.

12. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2006. Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis. In Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus Himmelmann and Ulrike Mosel, eds. Fundamentals of Language

Documentation: A Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 31–66. English version preprint. (Spanish version: Etica y aspectos prácticos del trabajo de campo cooperativo, in John Haviland and Jose Antonio Flores Farfan, eds. 2007. Bases de la documentación lingüística. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, pp. 49–89. Spanish version preprint).

13. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2006. Historische Fragen zur Ethnogenese der Salaren. In Fenz, Hendrik und Petra Kappert, Turkologie für das 21. Jahrhundert : Herausforderungen zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Wiesbaden: Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 70, pp. 95–108. Preprint (Deutsch). Translation (Englis h).

14. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Syncretism in Salar Love Songs. In Filiz Kıral, Barbara Pusch, Claus Schönig, and Arus Yumrul, eds. Cultural Changes in the Turkic World. Istanbuler Texte und Studien Vol 7. Würzburg: Ergon, 147–160. Postprint

15. Wagner, M., M. Flitsch, C. Winterstein, H. Lehmann, K.-H. Heußner, Ren X. Y., Xiao Y. M., Cai L. H., U. Wulf-Rheidt, P. Tarasov, A. Dwyer. 2007. Traditionelles Bauen und Wohnen der Salar in Nordwest-China. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 39: 128–234.

16. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2008. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. In Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer, eds. Lessons from documented endangered languages. Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 111–128. Preprint

17. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2008. Bridal Laments in the Turkic World: A Casualty of Modernity? In Herzog, Christoph and Barbara Pusch, eds. Groups, Ideologies and Discourses: Glimpses of the Turkish Speaking World. Istanbuler Texte und Studien 10. Würzburg: Ergon, 131–143. Preprint

18. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2010. Models of Successful Cooperation. In Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee, eds. Language Documentation: Practice and Values. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 193–212. Preprint

19. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2011. Uprooted and Replanted: Recontextualizing A Genre. Türk Dilleri Araş tırmaları21.47–82. Preprint [Actually published in 2014, back-dated by TDA to 2011].

20. Rosenblum, Brian, and Arienne M. Dwyer. 2016a. Co-piloting a digital humanities center: a critical reflection on a libraries-academic partnership. In White, John W. and Heather Gilbert (eds.) Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries. Purdue University Press, pp. 111–126. Epub online (chapter): (book)

21. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016b. Bringing Digital Data Management into Methods Courses: Linguistic Anthropology Module. In Bringing Digital Data Management Training into Methods Courses for Anthropology Arlington, Va: American Anthropological Association. Published online 201606-10 and (in a modified version) on 2016-09: (Full URL)

22. Dwyer, Arienne M., Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, Kathryn Oths, and George H. Perry. 2016c.

General Principles and Practices of Digital Data Management. In Bringing Digital Data Management Training into Methods Courses for Anthropology, edited by Blenda Femenías. Arlington, Va: American Anthropological Association.

23. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016d. Endangered Turkic languages of China. In Eker, Süer and Ülkü Celik Ş avk (eds.) Tehlikedeki Türk Dilleri: Kuramsal ve genel yaklaş ımlar / Endangered Turkic Languages:Theoretical and general approaches. Vol 1. Ankara: International Turkic Academy and Astana: International Turkish-Kazakh University, 431–450. Preprint

24. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016e. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse. In Nicholas Evans and Honore Watanabe (eds). Insubordination. Benjamins, pp. 183–208. Preprint

25. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2017a. Manuscript Technologies, Writing and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar. In Beller-Hann, Ildikó, Sugawara Jun and Birgit Schlyter (eds.) Kashgar Revisited: The Life and Work of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring. Brill. Page proof

26. Dwyer, Arienne M., Ofelia Zepeda, Jordan Lacher, and Janne Underriner. 2018a. Training Institutes for Language Revitalization. In Hinton, Leanne, Leena Huss and Gerald Roche (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization. Routledge.

WEBSITES

1. The Interactive Inner Asia project (documentation of endangered Turko-Mongolic languages of northern Tibet, China)

2. The Uyghur Light Verbs project (evaluating the status of “light verbs” as complex predicates, via a diachronic database of Uyghur)

3. Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (creating digital facsimiles and one digital edition of a large corpus of late eastern Chaghatay manuscripts, including linguistic and cultural annotations)

NON-PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHS

1. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2000. Consonantalization and Obfuscation. In Göksel, Asli & Celia

Kerslake (eds.) Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages. Proceedings of the Ninth International

Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Lincoln College, Oxford, 12-14 August 1998 (Turcologica 46). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 423–432. Preprint.

2. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2001. Uyghur. In Garry, Jane, and Carl Rubino, eds. Facts About the World’s Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present. New York/Dublin: HW Wilson Press. Preprint.

3. Anton-Luca, Alexandru and Arienne Dwyer, with Mansul Rinchen Dorje (trans.), Kambum Karma (ed.). 2002. Ethnographic Methods Workshop Teaching Materials (rendered in Tibetan as “Lecture Notes from the 2002 Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai tri-province Tibetan Folk Culture Research Methodology Class.”) In Folk Art and Literature [in Tibetan] 4: 1-57.

4. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2002. The Turkic Languages. In Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of Asia. New York: Scribner’s, Vol. 6: 1–3. Preprint

5. Yamamoto, Akira, Matthias Brenzinger, and Arienne Dwyer. 2003. Safeguarding of Endangered Languages. Report on the Project of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit of UNESCO. The Endangered Language Fund Newsletter 7.1: 1-4.

6. Gibbon, Dafydd, Doug Whalen and Arienne Dwyer. 2003. International Journal Initiative: Language Documentation and Heritage. In Blythe, Joe and R. McKenna Brown, eds.

Maintaining the Links. Language, Identity and the Land. Proceedings of the Seventh FEL Conference.

7. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2004. Genetics and Linguistics: The Possibilities for Cooperation. In Georg, Gunda et al., eds. Proceedings of the (Re)Searching Life symposium. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.

8. Dwyer, Arienne M. (as “Areienne [sic] Dwyer”). 2005. The Minorities of China. In Carl Skutsch, ed. The Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities. NY: Routledge: 286–294. Preprint.

9. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2012. Tools and techniques for endangered-language assessment and revitalization. In Trace Foundation (eds.) Minority Language in Today's Global Society. New York: Trace Foundation. 21 pp. Preprint.

10. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2013. Tibetan as a dominant Sprachbund language: its interactions with neighboring languages. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Tibetan Language. New York: Trace Foundation, pp. 258–280.

11. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2013. Clause Chaining in Salar. In M. Erdal, Y. Koç, M. Cengiz (eds.) Dilleri ve Kültürleri Yok Olma Tehlikesine Maruz Türk Toplulukları konulu 4. Uluslararası Türkiyat

Araştırmaları Bildirileri. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Yayınları, 209–215.

12. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2014. China's Language Policy Goes Global. World Politics Review, published May 6: (paywalled, available by request)

13. Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. and Arienne M. Dwyer. 2013–2014. XQuery databases for linguistic resources in the IAIA and UyLVs projects. KU ScholarWorks

14. (2018) Handbook of Chaghatay manuscript transcription. In Arienne M. Dwyer and C.M. SperbergMcQueen (PIs), 2015-2018. Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. http://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/manuals/ManuscriptsTranscription.xhtml. B/W

15. (2018) Morphological Annotation in the ATMO project. In Arienne M. Dwyer and C.M. SperbergMcQueen (PIs), 2015-2018. Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. A/W

16. (2018) Dwyer, Arienne, Introduction to A Medical Handbook (Jarring Prov. 351). In Arienne M. Dwyer and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (PIs), 2015-2018. Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. B/W

17. (2018) Digital facsimile and transcription of A Medical Handbook (Jarring Prov. 351). In Arienne M. Dwyer and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (PIs), 2015-2018. Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. Manuscript held and scanned by Lund University Library; transcribed by Gülnar Eziz and Akbar Amat. Henry Luce Foundation sponsored. Lawrence, Kansas. On the Web

REVIEW ARTICLES

1. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1994. Materials for the study of Modern Uyghur published in China. Central Asiatic Journal, 38.2: 155–159. Preprint.

2. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. Salar and Sarïgh Yoghur (Yellow Uyghur) dictionaries published in China. Central Asiatic Journal, 39.2. Preprint.

3. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. Review of Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, A Muslim Chinese People, by Shujiang Li and Karl Luckert. China Review International, 2.2: 504-510. Preprint.

4. Dwyer, Arienne M. 1998. Review of Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese, by Chaofen Sun. China Review International 5.2: 561–567.

5. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2000. Review of Central Asian Place-names – Lop nor and Tarim area – An Attempt at Classification and Explanation Based on Sven Hedin’s Diaries and Published Works, by Gunnar Jarring (1997). Turkic Languages 4.1: 286–288.

6. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2006. Review of Huzhu Mongghul Folklore: Texts and Translations, by Limusishiden and Kevin Stuart, and of Huzhu Mongghul Texts: Chileb 1983–1996 Selections, Vols I & II, by Limusishiden, Jugui, and Kevin Stuart. Asian Folklore Studies 65.1: 108–112.

7. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Review of Folktales of China’s Minhe Mangghuer by Kevin Stuart, Keith

W. Slater, Wang Xianzhen et al. (2005), Asian Folklore Studies 66.1–2: 269–271.

8. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Review of A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolic Language on China’s Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund by Keith Slater. London/New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 66.1: 244–246.

9. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2012. Review of Handbook of Descriptive Fieldwork by Shobhana Chelliah and Willem de Reuse (2011), Language 88.4: 899–904.

10. Dwyer, Arienne M. 2017c. Review of The Šabdan Baatır Codex by Daniel Prior (2013), Brill. Central Asia Survey.

MEDIA INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)

1. Dokumentation der bedrohten Sprachen [The Documentation of Endangered Languages]. Radio interview in October 2000. Deutschlandfunk. [in German]

2. Muslim unrest in Xinjiang, China Radio interview on 6 October 2004. Voice of America.

3. Is Uyghur an Endangered Language? Radio Interview on 27 May 2006 with Radio Free Asia. [in Uyghur]

4. Watch Your Language: Uyghur Language in China. Radio interview with WBEZ Chicago Public Radio(interview 24 August 2006, broadcast 12 Sept 2006 on Worldview).

5. Xinjiang: China's Other Tibet, written interview on 24 January 2008 with Poppy Toland, Al Jazeera. Online.Published 25 March 2008.

6. Phone Interview: 13 March 2008 with Alanna Byrne, U. Chicago re Endangered Languages.

7. Language Endangerment, phone interview in October 2008 with Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education, published June 2009 CHE 55.38 as “Another kind of language expert:

Speakers.” (As of 2009-08-12 no longer available on the redesigned Chronicle.com site.)

8. “How many languages? Linguists discover new tongues in China,” phone interview on 19 November 2008 with Michael Erard, Science, April 17, 2009, vol. 324.

9. Written interview: 9 July 2009, with Joshua Chin, Global Post. re ethnic riots in Ürümchi, China; no resultant citations; cf. Confused about Xinjiang Riots? Follow the money, 11 July 2009.

10. Written interview: 15 July 2009 with Andrea Rodes of Público (www.publico.es) re ethnic riots in Ürümchi; no resultant citations; cf. Musulmanes bajo el yugo de China, 15 September 2009.

11. Written interview: 24 July 2009 with Rachel Vandenbrink of Radio Free Asia re Islam and Women in China, no resultant citations, cf. Strong Women in Uyghur History, published 24 August 2009.

12. Written interview on unrest in Chinese Turkestan; 24 July 2009 with Claire Ho from Chinese MediaNet, (http://www.dwnews.com/), not published as of 12/30/09.

13. Radio interview on The Uyghur Language: with Maria Zijlstra of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Lingua Franca (broadcast and published on 27 March 2010); audio and transcript online.

14. Radio interview on Cultural Policy and Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang: 3 November 2005 with Dutch Radio International.

15. Audio interview with freelance journalist Durrie Bouscaren (Istanbul) on Uyghur language activism, for the program Kerning Cultures, 8 July 2019 (not yet broadcast)

INVITED EXTERNAL PLENARY LECTURES

1. October 1997. Spoken-Language Corpus Management by Field Linguists. University of Oslo.

2. October 1997. Language-contact effects on serial verb constructions in two dialects of Salar. University of Oslo.

3. June 1999. Türken in der Volksrepublik China. University of Gießen, Germany. [in German]

4. June 2001. Standards for Morphosyntactic Annotation. Workshop: The Digitization of Language Data: the Need for Standards, Santa Barbara.

5. June 2001. A Gentle introduction to Unicode. Workshop: The Digitization of Language Data: the Need for Standards, Santa Barbara.

6. December 2002. Religion as a Key Factor in Language Vitality. Lecture series on Language Endangerment, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

7. 10 March 2003. Presentation of the document, Language Vitality and Endangerment and Action Plan to invited delegates at UNESCO headquarters, Paris.

8. 23 March 2004. (and Dr. Xianzhen Wang) Community-centered research in the Salar-Monguor Project. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

9. 9 April 2003. Xinjiang Language Contact in the Inner Asian Sprachbund: new directions in areal studies.

Central Eurasian and Uralic Studies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.

10. 17 April 2003. Annotation Standards, Volkswagen-DOBES meeting, Frankfurt.

11. 20 June 2003. Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen: Wissenschaft, Gemeinschaften, Technologie. Freie Universität Berlin. [in German]

12. 5 December 2003. Language and Cultural Contact: syncretism in Salar love songs. Symposium on cultural changes in the Turkic world since 1990. Bilgi University, Istanbul.

13. 3 September 2004. Cooperative fieldwork with speech communities and speakers: ethics and practicalities. Language Documentation Summer School, Frankfurt, Germany.

14. 7 October 2004. Muslim Education in Northwest China. U.S. National Intelligence Council/Department of State, Washington, D.C.

15. 5 November 2004. Local Identities and Local Dialects: The Ethnodialectology of Uyghur. Symposium, Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia. School of African and Oriental Studies, London.

16. 1 March 2005. Technology and Metadata in Endangered-Language Documentation. Anthropology Department, Yeditepe University, Istanbul.

17. 21 June 2005. Can endangered-language documentation be policy-relevant? Case studies in Central Asian language contact. Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland.

18. 9 July 2005. Models of Successful Collaboration. Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values. Linguistic Society of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

19. 16 October 2005. Issues in Funding for Endangered Languages. Conference on Language Documentation and Poverty, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

20. 1 November 2005. Spin-Doctoring the Uyghurs: Recent Developments in Cultural Policy in Xinjiang. Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar, Harvard University.

21. 24 February 2006. Linguist-Driven Tools: A Manifesto. Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS=German Linguistic Society) annual meeting, Bielefeld, Germany.

22. 26 May 2007. Til sayasat: bashka ölkölördöng tazhbiriyba.[Language policy: the experience of other countries]. Plenary lecture, Roundtable on Language Planning and Policy for Kyrgyzstan,

American U of Central Asia, Bishkek. [in Kyrgyz]

23. 26 June 2007. Diverse Research Teams as Proto-Wikis: The challenges of multiple ontologies and metadata inconsistencies. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

24. 12 March 2008. Recent theoretical advances in Linguistic Anthropology. Xinjiang Academy of Social

Sciences, Ürümchi, China.[in Mandarin]

25. 25 March 2008. Performativity in Dialogic Discourse. Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

26. 3 April 2008. Sinitic-Mongolic Language Contact: the case of Monguor, W. Washington U, Bellingham, Washington.

27. 24 October 2009. Tools and techniques for endangered-language assessment and revitalization applied to Tibeto-Burman. Trace Foundation, New York. Video or Video 02

28. 30 October 2010. The development of complex predication in Turkic. Workshop on Complex Predication, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo.

29. 30 July 2011. The expressive life of religions: Do religion practices strengthen or weaken language vitality?

Workshop on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

30. 18 October 2011. Is Uyghur a stellar exemplar of Chinese language policy? Colloquium on Minority Language Situations in Today’s People’s Republic of China, Glendon College, York University, Toronto. [via VOIP]

31. 11 November 2011. Areal Characteristics of Inner Asian Clauses. Workshop on [Grammatical] Insubordination, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo.

32. 13 November 2011. Insubordination in Turkic. Workshop on [Grammatical] Insubordination, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo.

33. 2 December 2011. Collaborative Linguistic Annotation and Archiving. Transitivity and its related phenomena. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo.

34. 3 December 2011. Morphological Transitivity in some Amdo Mongolic Languages. Transitivity and its related phenomena. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo.

35. 10 December 2011. Tibetan interactions with neighboring languages: A dominant Sprachbund language. Third International Conference on Tibetan Language on Columbia University, New York.

36. 10 May 2012. The contribution of the Jarring Lund Corpus to Turkestani language and culture studies. Kashgar Revisited: Workshop to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, University of Copenhagen.

37. 26 October 2012. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse. Dynamics of insubordination symposium, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

38. 27 November 2012. Cultural Heritage and Language Documentation. University of Yangon, Myanmar/Burma.

39. 19 February 2013. Cultural change in the Digital Humanities: Balancing access, participation, and security. Columbia University, New York.

40. 5 April 2013. Internal and external representations of Inner Asian identities. Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity, New York University.

41. 17 April 2013. Languages as Historical Sources. Digital Humanities Initiative, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

42. 27 April 2013. Balancing access, participation, and security in Virtual Research Environments. Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes annual meeting. Lawrence, Kansas.

43. 9 May 2013. Requirements of an multimedia archive for linguistic researchers and indigenous communities. For NSF project “Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community (AARDVARC).” Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan University.

44. 9 January 2014. May the pious sing? Illicit language and song in Amdo Tibet. Islamic Soundscapes of China.School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

45. 27 March 2014. Lexicography in language documentation. Universite Mohammed V, Rabat.

46. 31 March 2014. Cultural heritage documentation. Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM), Rabat, Morocco.

47. 26 September 2014. Trends in the modern Uyghur language: The Emergence of Diasporic Uyghur. First International Conference on Uyghur Studies, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

48. 4 September 2015. Migrating narratives, migrating ideologies. Ideas on the move: Travelling theory, translation, and performativity. Workshop, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, 3–4 September 2015.

49. 6 November 2015. Bidirectional Language Shift in Greater China. Language shift in the Sinophone world, University of Washington, Seattle.

50. 29 January 2016. Invited discussant. Money and Toil in Inner Asia: Local to transnational. Columbia University, New York.

51. 19 January 2017. Upright like alef: Towards an accessible diachronic corpus of Chaghatay and modern Uyghur. Corpora in the Digital Humanities (CDH), International Workshops on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) 15, Bloomington, Indiana.

52. 12 April 2017. Multilingualism on the Silk Road: a diachronic look at the origins of 20th-21st c. Xinjiang language use and policy. Yale University.

53. What can the Digital Humanities offer Oriental Studies? 6th International Conference of Oriental Studies:

Rare, Forgotten and Endangered Languages and Literatures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. 13 November 2017. [conference keynote]

54. Nationalism, glocal actors, and technology: a boost or a threat to endangered language maintenance?WOCAL

[World Congress on African Linguistics]-9: African Languages in a Global World: From Description to State Policies. Rabat, Morocco. 25 August 2018. [conference keynote]

55. La medecine turki au debut du XXe siècle en tant que persification du Turkestan chinois. EHESS, Center for Chinese Studies (CECMC), Paris. 18 February 2018 [discussant: F. Obringer].

56. Convergence et resistance sur le plateau nord tibetain. EHESS, Center for Research on East Asian languages (CRLAO), Paris. 19 February 2019

57. La desinisation de la langue ouïgoure moderne. EHESS, Center for Research on East Asian languages (CRLAO), Paris. 22 February 2019

58. Uyghur chauvinism? Ethnodialectology, scholarship, and the erasure of non-Uyghur groups in Xinjiang. Workshop on Linguistic Minorities in Asia, University Chicago in Hong Kong. 22 March 2019

CONFERENCE PAPERS (PEER-REVIEWED)

1. January 1995. Dominant-language Influence on Serial Verb Constructions in Salar. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans.

2. December 1995. Incorporating Uyghur Teaching into Turkic-Language Pedagogy in the United States. Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington D.C.

3. April 1988. The Evolution of the Causative in the Turkic Languages. 6th Central Asia at Berkeley.

4. April 1990. On the Altaic Origins of the Chinese Durative Marker zhe 著/着. 8th Central Asia at Berkeley.

5. November 1992. 有關突厥語族語言研究的最近語音學理論. [Recent developments in phonological theory relevant to Turkology] (in Mandarin). Xinjiang University, China.

6. June 1996. (with Sue-Ellen Jacobs & Charles Hiestand) Tools of Dual Utility: Multimedia

Applications for Native American Language Preservation and Teaching. Joint meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing / Association for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen, Norway.

7. June 1997. Hand-to-Hand Wrestling with Small Linguistic Corpora. Joint meeting of the Association for Computing in the Humanities / Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Kingston, Ontario.

8. August 1999. Salar song genres. CHIME [European Foundation for Chinese Music], Prague.

9. August 2000. Hua’er-like song forms in Amdo Tibet. CHIME, Leiden, the Netherlands.

10. August 2000. Marriage Proposal: the Qilisi hua’er festival in Qinghai. European Association for Chinese Studies, Torino.

11. March 2001. Re-weighing predictive factors in Language Change: the case of Inner Asia. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft annual meeting, Leipzig.

12. October 2001. Contact phenomena in Inner Asia. University of Kansas Linguistics Colloquy.

13. March 2002. When Multilingualism does not contribute to Language Endangerment. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft annual meeting, Mannheim.

14. April 2002. Minority Language Classification in China: the Case of the Mongolic Languages. Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, San Francisco.

15. 15 October 2004. Language Planning in China’s Western Regions. Central Eurasian Studies Symposium annual meeting, Bloomington, Indiana.

16. 27 February 2005. Turkic Laments: A Casualty of Modernism? Symposium on Sociabilities in the Turkic World, Istanbul.

17. 2 July 2005. Panning for GOLD while discovering a grammar. EMELD (Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Language Data) IV: Ontologies, Harvard University.

18. 2 October 2005. Language Contact Phenomena in Inner Asian Turkic Interrogatives. Central Eurasian Studies Symposium, Boston University.

19. 6 April 2006. (and Ma Wei) Words of the Ancestors: Cultural Heritage and Modernity in a Lost Wedding Tradition of the Salars. Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco.

20. 30 May 2006. Issues in Human Language Technology with regard to Language Documentation. USMoroccan Human Language Technology workshop, Rabat, Morocco.

21. 30 September 2006. Nationalism one step at a time: Language purification in the Uyghur exile community.

Central Eurasian Studies Symposium annual meeting, Ann Arbor.

22. 26 November 2006. Die Oghusen im Nordtibet: zur Sprachgeschichte der Salaren. Workshop, Von Alttürkisch bis Deutschlandtürkisch. Die Sprachgeschichte des Oghusischen. Orient-Institut Istanbul.

23. 15 October 2007. Critical issues in the development of language archives. National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages funding planning meeting, Nashua, N.H.

24. 20 October 2007. Overt and Covert Culture. In panel, “Overt and Covert Cultural Policies and Attitudes in Central Asia”, Central Eurasian Studies Symposium annual meeting, Seattle.

25. 18 October 2009. The localization of the Geser epic among Turko-Mongol peoples in Inner Asia. Central Eurasian Studies Symposium annual meeting, Toronto.

26. 12 November 2009. Languages on the cusp: creating teaching materials before languages are completely endangered. Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Workshop, Salt Lake City.

27. 30 October 2010. The development of complex predication in Turkic. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

28. 8 January 2011. Mapping solstice festivals (Hua’er 花儿meetings) in northern Tibet. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Pittsburgh.

29. 23 May 2012. Salar clause chaining. Conference on Endangered Turkic Languages. 4. Uluslararası Turkiyat Araştırmaları Sempozyumu. Hacettepe University, Ankara.

30. 5 January 2013. (with Gülnar Eziz and Travis Major). The development of complex predicates: Uyghur Light Verbs. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting.

31. 6 January 2013. Ideologies of Collaboration. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting.

32. 19 July 2013. (with C.M. Sperberg-McQueen) XQuery databases for the UyLVs and IAIA projects. Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska.

33. 4 December 2014. Tibetan Borderlands: Borders, Ethnicity, and Critical Scholarship. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.

34. 11 January 2015. Optimizing multiple layers of annotation for rapid search. Panel “Making the most of language archives,” Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Portland, Oregon.

35. 15 October 2015. Westbound peacocks and opening wastelands: the discourse of colonization. Central Eurasian Studies Symposium, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

36. 19 November 2015. Good and Evil Spirits in the Tarim Basin. 2nd annual Conference on Uyghur culture, INALCO, Paris.

37. 9 January 2016. Convergence and resistance on the north Tibetan plateau. Annual conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Washington, D.C.

38. 25 October 2016. Dispersing the spirits: Diagnosis and treatment of illness in the late Chaghatay period. Third international Uyghur Studies conference, Moscow.

39. 7 January 2017. Borrowability and the Amdo Tibetan Sprachbund. Annual conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Austin, Tx.

40. 24 May 2017. Humanities and Linguistics Data Standards: State of the art and challenges. IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) annual meeting, Lawrence, Kansas.

41. 19 June 2017. Revisiting “creoles” in Inner Asia via a socio-historical lense. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics summer conference, Tampere, Finland.

42. 21 June 2017. When Turks tell Gesar: Cultural contact and the repurposing of the Gesar epic. XXIX Asia and Africa Historiography conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.

43. 5 August 2017. Ripples from the Civilizing Center: Deploying cultural, linguistic, and academic soft power.“Interests, Comparison, and Dialogue”: Conference in honor of Stevan Harrell. University of Washington, Seattle.

44. Ten Grand Challenges for Turkic Linguistics. Symposium on Turkic Linguistics, Seattle. 5 October 2017.

45. (with Akbar Amat). Defining the end of Chaghatay and the beginning of its modern descendants. Central Eurasian Studies Symposium, Seattle. 6 October 2017.

46. The fungus that overtook oral literature: Scald-heads (taz). Central Eurasian Studies Symposium, Seattle. 7 October 2017.

47. Endangered Turkic languages of China. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. 15 November 2017.

48. Building a diachronic corpus from Central Asian Turkic manuscripts. (poster) Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description. Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris. 1 February 2018.

49. Were the Xinjiang Dolans once speakers of Turkic or Mongolic? Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics annual meeting, New York. 5 January 2019.

ADMINISTRATION AND ACADEMIC SERVICE

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Founding Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2010– 2017.

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS

Editorial Board:	Journal of Endangered Languages/Turkic Languages (Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi / Türk Dilleri) 2012–.
Editorial Board:	Journal of Central and Inner Asian Dialogue, 2011–.
Advisor:	LinguistList Advisory Board, Jan 2010-present.
Advisor:	Turkic Terminology group, American Association of Teachers of Turkic, 2010.
Advisor:	ELIIP: Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project, 2009.
Advisor:	Open Society Institute, Research In China initiative, 2006–08.
Advisor:	NEH, Digital Humanities Initiative, March 2006.
Steering committee:	VW-DOBES Consortium (Documentation of Endangered Languages Consortium), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2000–2005.
Advisor:	Member of the UNESCO ad hoc Committee on Language Endangerment; UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit, 2003–2004.
Advisor:	E-MELD (Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Languages Data), E Michigan U, U of Arizona, U Penn, SIL International, 2001–2006.
Advisor:	Open Society Institute, Academic Fellowship Program, Anthropology dept. assessments in Sofia, Bulgaria: Ulan Baator, Mongolia: and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, via online WebFolios, critiques, and workshops, 2007–2009.
Metadata advisor:	ISLE (International Standards on Language Engineering), European Union, 2001–2003.

SCHOLARLY SOCIETY COMMITTEE CHAIRSHIPS AND ORGANIZING

Program Committee Member, LREC (Language Resources & Evaluation) Workshop on Tools in Linguistic Fieldwork, May 2002.

Program Committee Member, A World of Many Voices: Interfaces in Language Documentation: Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities, and Technology. DOBES [Documentation of Endangered Languages] Consortium, Frankfurt, 4–5 September 2004.

Program Committee Member, Progress in Endangered Language Research conference, 21–23 May 2005, Nijmegen.

Program Committee Member and Co-Organizer, Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values. Harvard / Linguistic Society of America, July 9–11 2005.

Co-Organizer, DT-Summit: Digital Tools in the Humanities Summit. U Virginia, Sept. 28–30, 2005.

Program Committee member, First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 9–11 January 2008.

Chair, Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation (CELP), Linguistic Society of America, 2008. CELP member, 2009–present.

Plenary sessions organizer, Linguistic Society of America - Endangered Language panels, 2010.

Nominating Committee member, Linguistic Society of America, 2010–2013.

Nominating Committee chair, Linguistic Society of America, 2011–2012.

Technical Advisory Committee member, Linguistic Society of America, 2011–2014.

Inner Asian Book Prize committee member, Association for Asian Studies, 2011–2012.

Academic Board, 4th International Turkic Research Symposium - Turkic communities whose languages and cultures are endangered. 23-26 May 2012, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 2011–2012.

Organizing committee member, InField: Summer school in Language Documentation. 2007-08, 2009-10, 2014.

Co-Director and PI, Co-Lang summer school in Collaborative Language Research, University of Kansas, 17 June–27 July 2012.

Program Committee Member, Advisory Circle, Co-Lang summer school in Collaborative Language Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, June 2016.

Conference Co-Organizer, Network Sciences in Languages, Arts, Sciences and Humanities (NETSCI-

LASH): 1 April 2016. http://people.ku.edu/~mvitevit/NetSciLASH.htm

TEACHING

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (3-HOUR COURSES)

Undergraduate Courses (10 courses offered; IS=Independent Study):

Practical Lexicography (2011)

Constructed Languages [language typology/language ideology] (2010, 2019)

Language and Society (=Intro. To Linguistic Anth.) (Reg./Honors) (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2017, 2018)

Peoples of China (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Anthropology of Chinese tourism (IS 2009)

Uyghur language, 1st- & 2nd-year (2004–2005 as sole instructor; 2005–2007 as Instructor of Record)

Comparative Turkology; beginning Kyrgyz language (2005)

Education in China (IS 2003) Introduction to Linguistics (2001)

Graduate courses (17 courses offered):

Comparative and Historical Linguistics (2015, IS 2016)

Turkic Linguistics (2013, IS 2016)

Grammatical Analysis (2012)

Practical Lexicography (Dictionary-making) (2011)

Current Linguistic Anthropology (2010, 2016)

Narratology (IS 2010)

Linguistic Typology (2009)

Discourse Analysis (2008, IS 2009, IS 2016, 2017)

Cultural anthropology of Central Asia (IS 2008)

Linguistic Data Processing (2004, 2007, 2011, 2017)

Language Contact (2007, 2017)

Language Endangerment and Revitalization (2006, IS 2009)

Sociolinguistics (IS 2006, 2009)

Dialectology Field Methods (2005)

Field Methods in Linguistic Description (2004)

Ethnopoetics (2003)

Constructing Culture and Ethnicity in China (2001)

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK - GRADUATE CENTER (3-HOUR COURSE) SPRING 2013 MALS 75500 Digital Humanities Methods and Practices (new Master's Core Course), See more

JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ (TAUGHT IN GERMAN, 4-6 HOUR SEMINARS)

Ethnopoetics and Typology (2001)

Field Methods with an emphasis on Gender Research (2000)

Language Contact in China (1999)

Uyghur grammar (1998)

Structure of Salar (1997)

BLOCK SEMINARS AND SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHING

UNIVERSITY OF YANGON, MYANMAR/BURMA (INTENSIVE COURSE FOR 200 DEPARTMENT CHAIRS)

Social Science Research Methods [OSI-sponsored] (Workshops; Gave plenary lectures on Research Sources,

Research Ethics, and Cultural and Linguistic Heritage; November 2012)

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA-FAIRBANKS (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL)

CoLang 2016 Institute for Language Research [NSF-sponsored]: taught Lexicography, June 2016

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL)

CoLang 2012 Institute for Language Research [NSF-sponsored]: served as PI and Director, gave

Plenary Lecture, and taught: Lexicography (with Claire Bowern, Yale), June 2012

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL)

InField 2010: Institute on Field Linguistics & Language Documentation [NSF-sponsored] (June 21-Jul

30 2010)

1. Technical Workshops (as Coordinator, overseeing the design and teaching of 8 workshops);

2. Audio Recording Principles and Practice (as Instructor, beginner's and advanced classes, June 2010, 2 weeks)

3. Transcription (as Instructor, 1 week in June 2010).

4. Field Methods intensive apprenticeship in Uyghur (as instructor, 4 weeks in July 2010)

ISSYK KÖL, KYRGYZSTAN AND TBILISI, GEORGIA (TWO-WEEK ANTHROPOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOLS)

Methods and Theory of Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Open Society Institute’s Building Anthropology in

Eurasia [for junior faculty in Anthropology and related disciplines from Eurasian institutions] (July 2007, July 2009; March 2010)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL) InField 2008: Institute on Field Linguistics & Language Documentation [NSF-sponsored] (June 16-Jul

3 2008) Website

1. Technical Workshops coordinator (overseeing the design and teaching of 8 workshops); 2. Audio Recording Principles and Practice instructor

3. Database Design instructor.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE)

Social Science Research Design and Methods (taught in English, Uyghur, and Mandarin; Aug 2007)

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN (2 SHORT-TERM INTENSIVE COURSES) Ethnographic Field Methodology (March 2007)

Linguistic Anthropology (May 2007)

GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT (TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL)

Website: http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/dobes/ssch6cir.htm

Language Documentation: Methods and Technology (Sept 2004) PEOPLE’SREPUBLIC OF CHINA (SHORT-TERM INTENSIVE COURSES)

Field Methodology for Tibetan Ethnographers [taught in Mandarin and Tibetan] (June 2002)

Culture and Ethnicity on the Chinese Silk Road [as Study Leader, Smithsonian Institution] (Oct 1998)

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM (AS GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT)

Intensive first-year Mandarin Chinese (July-Aug 1990 (1 YEAR equivalent))

MENTORING

Doctoral committee chair (6):

Mahire Yakup (LING, with co-chair J. Sereno), Uyghur stress, PhD May 2013;

Hassan Zaid (EDU, with co-chair Yamina El-Kirat, Universite Mohammed V Rabat), Amazigh Language Socialization, PhD April 2014; Ali Mömin (ANTH, F'15-'17), LOA.

Gülnar Eziz (ANTH, S’12-), The diachronic development of bol- as a light verb (PhD expected Dec 2017),

Fatemeh Sadraee (ANTH, F'13-), Ideologies of Persian neo-environmental discourse (F'13-);

Akbar Amat (ANTH, F'15-, with co-chair David Smith), The commodification of consumerism in Xinjiang, PhD expected 2020.

Wen-yao Lee (ANTH, F'17-), Changing Local Space under the Development Process: The case of the Pumi communities in Southwest China

Doctoral committee member (15):

Vilma Joseph (LING), Garifuna Creole, PhD December 2002;

Maisoun Abu-Joudeh (LING), A minimalist approach to Arabic syntax, PhD May 2005;

Nyoman Aryawibawa (LING), Locatives in Balinese, Indonesian and Rongga, Ph.D January 2010; Christopher Souillé-Rigaut (LING), Indo-European lexicography, PhD June 2010;

Rania Agarbeh (LING), Finiteness in Jordanian Arabic, PhD (with Honors) December 2011;

Robert Wilson (EDU, UT-Austin), Uyghur education and ideology, PhD May 2012;

Atef Sarayreh (LING), Licensing of negative polarity items in Jordanian Arabic, PhD May 2012;

Hiba Gharib (LING), A semantic analysis of ‘cut’ and ‘break’ verbs in Sorani Kurdish, PhD (with Honors) December 2012;

Sonja Sun (GERMANICS), L2 German writing assessment, PhD April 2013;

Diana Marrs (EDU), Teaching Intercultural Competence, PhD April 2014;

Erin Moulton (SLAV), Ph.D. Student, Rethinking Reflexivity: Slavic Se-verbs in Russian,

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Polish, PhD Mar. 2015;

Giulia Cabras (INALCO, Paris), Commutation de code entre le ouighour et le chinois: une etude de cas sur la communaute linguistique ouighoure de Urümchi, PhD Feb. 2016 (with Honors);

Abdifatah Shafat, PhD candidate (ANTH F'13-15, withdrew), Islamic Discourses in Kenya;

Dilnur Reyhan-Polat (Sociology, Universite de Strasbourg), Le role des des TIC dans la construction des nouvelles diasporas. Le cas de la diaspora ouighoure, PhD May 2017 (with Honors); Amanda Soelter (EDU, 2017-), Multicultural education.

Master’s chair (av. time to degree = 2.5 years, n=13):

JoAnne Grandstaff (Indigenous Nations Studies, 2.1 yrs), Kickapoo Reacquisition, MA July 2005;

Ma Wei (ANTH, F'05-07, 2 yrs.), Salar child bilingualism and language shift, MA May 2007;

Mohammed Murad (LING/ANTH), Language ideology of Iraqi Arabic & Standard Arabic, MA May 2007;

Ariane Tulloch (ANTH, 2.8 yrs), Definitions of Blackness in Costa Rica, MA May 2009;

Hexian Wu (ANTH, F'08–'10 2.4 yrs), Xiangxi Miao Spirit Mediumship, MA December 2010;

Abduwali Ayup (LING, F'09–'11, 2 yrs), Historical change in Kashgar Uyghur, MA May 2011;

Phil Duncan (Indigenous Nations Studies, F’09-11), Dispensationalist discourse, MA (Honors) Oct. 2011;

Holly Glasgow (ANTH, F'09–12, 2.8 years), Croatian diaspora code-switching on Strawberry Hill, M.A. (with Honors) April 2012;

Ashley Thompson (ANTH, F'09–12, 3.5 yrs), Uyghur language purity, MA Feb 2013;

Wen Xiangcheng (ANTH, F'11–S'13), Monguor arts, LOA;

Melanie McKay-Cody (ANTH co-chair, F’12-Su 2014, 2 years), Northern Cheyenne Sign Language, MA August 2014;

Amanda Snider (ANTH, F'12–S'17), May There Be a Meshrep in Our Home (MA May 2017); Laura Searcy (ANTH, F'16–18), Don't forget your language! (Uyghur-Chinese code-switching), M.A. Dec 2018.

Master’s committee member (6):

Nathan Poell (LING), Cherokee Phonology, MA April 2005;

Michelle Bridges (LING), Uyghur verbal aspect, MA May 2008;

Nyoman Aryawibawa (LING), Semantic Typology: Semantics of Locative Relations in Rongga, MA May 2008, Wayne Yang (ANTH), Power & Authority in the Hmong Church, MA Mar 2010;

Mahire Yakup (LING), English compound word processing: evidence from Mandarin-English bilinguals, MA May 2010,

Travis Major (LING), Islanding in Uyghur relative clauses, MA April 2014.

Joel Evans (ANTH), An Anthropological Analysis of Peacemaking in the Korean and Iraq Wars, MA April 2019.

Undergraduate Mentorships (4):

Jared Love (ANTH), Chinese culture, (Honors thesis) 2003;

Phil Duncan (LING), Q’anjob’al classifiers, (Honors thesis) 2009;

Jermay Jamsu (ANTH/LING/Honors) provided international recruitment, intensive mentorship, and employment 2002-2007 (2012 PhD in Linguistics, Georgetown University). Mathew Reinhold (Linguistics), Miskitu Language Shift., 2019-present.

Host and Mentor for Predoctoral Visiting Scholar (at Univ. Kansas) in Turkology for:

(1) Gülnar Eziz, M.A., Xinjiang U. (China), Uyghur verb typology, May 2007–2009, visiting from the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, China;

(2) Giulia Cabras, Uyghur-Chinese codeswitching, 2013–2015, visiting from INALCO, Paris [as an Anth MA student, formally distinct from her PhD study].

Host and Mentor for Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (at Univ. Kansas) for:

(1) Dr. Aigerim Dyikanbaeva, then Assoc. Professor, American U of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic), Kyrgyz Myths and Legends, August 2003–2005.

(2) Dr. Mukaram Toktogulova, then Acting Assoc. Professor, American U of Central Asia

(Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic), Kyrgyz language policy and planning, May 2007–2009;

(3) Dr. Rufat Bavdinov, then Asst. Professor, Turan U (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Kazakhstani

Uyghur language attitudes, 2007–2009;

(4) Dr. Tynara Ryskulova, then Assoc. Professor, American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyz bata

(blessings and curses), 2008–2010;

(5) Dr. Merhaba Eli, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Xinjiang University, China (Jan–Dec 2017).

(6) Co-Supervisor (with Brian Rosenblum) of IDRH postdoc Dr. Élika Ortega, 2015–2017.

Visiting Scholar (Postdoctoral) reciprocal mentor and host at K.U. for the following scholars:

(1) Dr.Med. Xianzhen Wang (Qinghai Medical College, China), 2003-04;

(2) Prof. Dr. Jan-Torsten Milde (TU Fulda, Germany), March 2004; and

(3) Dr. Ablet Semet, (FU Berlin, Germany), April 2005.

Supervision and Mentoring of grant-supported Research Assistant students (46): Graduate RAs (at U

Kansas = 21): Akbar Amat, Jari Billiot, Giulia Cabras, Vishnu Challam, Gülnar Eziz, Patrick

Flor, Pankaj Goel, David V. Kaufman, Yuwen Lai, Travis Major, Jeremy Meerkreebs, Matt

Menzenski, Jason Miller, Ali Mömin, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Carolina Pardo, Joshua Shireman,

Amanda Snider, Mfon Udoinyang, Maria Weir, Jennifer Vang; (at University of Mainz, Germany = 3)Caroline Riera, Jingling Wang, Reinhard Hiß; (at Eastern Michigan U = 1) Sarah Williams; (at Lund University, Sweden =1) Johanna Svensson (post-doc).

Undergraduate RAs (U Kansas = 16): Jamie Albers, Brendan Allen, Rachel Hoener Best,

Chenying Cai, Samuel Hopkins, Jermay Jamsu, Gabrielle Kissane, Joshua McMullen, Shen

Meng, Rebecca Rosenkrans, Sophia Southard, Alexander Straus, Yiye Tao, Angel Funghwa Tee,

Carolisa Watson, Trenton Wilson, Mei Zheng; (Qinghai, China = 7): Omotso, Viva, Lobsang D., Lobsang T., Wen Xiangcheng, Zhu Y., Xiawu Dongzhou (American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan = 1) Ainur Sydykova.

Total Undergraduate Honors students mentored:

11 MA students mentored: 23

Total PhD students mentored: 32

Post-docs hosted/mentored: 9

Total Students/Postdocs supported on my research grants: 54 (Undergraduate: 24; Graduate: 27; Postdoctoral: 3); average length of support: 1.5 years per student or postdoc; student depts:

ANTH, ENGL, LING, EALC, EECS, SLAV, Schools of Education and Pharmacy. My grants have supported students continuously since 1999, at least three students a year.

Total Employees mentored and supervised (student and post-doc): about 76.