Curriculum Vitæ
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1 Curriculum Vitæ A. Personal Ian Francis Hancock (o Yanko le Redjosko) Born: London, England; US/UK/EC Citizen Marrried: Wife: Denise Davis Five children: (Marko, Imre, Melina, Malik, Chloë) Addresses: Home: Amari Avlin 58 Country Oaks Drive Buda, TX 78610-9338 Tel: (512)-295-4848 E-Mail: [email protected] Work: Department of Linguistics The University of Texas B5100 Austin, Texas 78712 512-471-1701 Department of English Parlin Hall The University of Texas B5000 Austin, Texas 78712 512-471-4991 The Romani Archives and Documentation Center Parlin Hall The University of Texas B5000 Austin, Texas 78712 512-232-7684 Fax: 512-295-7733 B. Academic and Administrative Involvement a. Education: Ph.D. (honoris causa) with distinction, awarded by Umeå University, Sweden, October, 2005. Ph.D. (honoris causa) awarded by Constantine University, Slovakia, November 2009. Ph.D. awarded by London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1971. b. Academic Positions: 2 Director, The Romani Archives and Documentation Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Nowlin Regents Professor in Liberal Arts since 2005. Professor (since 1984) in the Departments of Linguistics and English. Minority faculty member. Associate Professor, 1977-1983. Assistant Professor, 1972-1976. Honorary Vice-Chancellor, Sabhyata Sanskriti Roma University, New Delhi, 2012- External Examiner, Faculty of Arts & General Studies, The University of the West Indies (all campuses: Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica), 1982-1998. Co-founder/co-editor, International Journal of Romani Language and Culture (Lincom: Berlin, 2009-) c. Service and Other Academic Work (past and present): Member, Faculty Council, 2006-2008 Member, Rapoport Center for Human Rights, 2006-2011 (UTA) Member, Center for European Studies, 2005- (UTA) Member, International Leadership Program, annually hosting European visitors to the Archives. Member of the Women For a Change International Foundation, an NGO promoting the A Safe World for Women campaign. Made Honorary President of the “giuria internazionale” in 2009 of the Italian arts and music organization Alexian, the patron of which is the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano (http://artists-for-roma-net.ning.com/profile/AlexianSantinoSpinelli). Invited and accepted, member of the Berlin-based Roma Holocaust Reparations Committee. Member of the Requiem for Auschwitz committee, Memorial classical musical festival at De Nieuwe Kirk, Amsterdam, May 3 2012. On April 20th 2012 I and two other commissioners visited the state capitol to petitioned the Texas Senate to have April officially recognized as Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month. I oversaw the final wording of this document, ensuring the inclusion of reference to the Gypsy victims of the Holocaust (following Himmler’s Final Solution of the Gypsy Question of March, 1938). It was passed and subsequently issued as Resolution No. 258 on June 28. This year (in April) it was adopted by the federal government as a national commemoration. 3 Also as a state commissioner, I have been appointed as coordinator/liaison person for the Native American and African American Buffalo Soldiers dispute, overseeing that committee, which meets in Houston. I was asked to consider becoming a board member of the Paris-based organization Yahad- in-Unum, Inc., “the leading research organization investigating mass executions of Jews and Roma/Gypsies in Eastern Europe between 1941-1945” (www.yahadinunum.org). In August a five-member team from Paris came to Austin for three days to visit The Romani Archives and Documentation Center and to discuss with me the creation of the first international conference on the Romani genocide. Negotiations with the University to host the event are ongoing. In August I was invited by Padmashri Shashiji to join the Board of The Indian Research Centre in Gurgaon, Haryana State (India). Accepted. While in Budapest (2012) I had discussions with the director and some staff of the Dr. Ian Hancock Romski Edukacijski Omladinski Centar who came from Zagreb for that purpose. (http://www.gplushist.com/profile/1063386907929910680/reoc-ian-hancock). Organizing a one-day national symposium at The University of Texas on the under-representation of marginalized groups, for the Texas State Holocaust and Genocide Commission. Senior advisor for a Canadian film studio (Nuance Pictures) preparing an award-winning documentary on the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust 1933-1945) entitled A People Uncounted gathering survivors’ testimonies. Meetings in Austin, New York and Toronto. Declined between 2011-2013 funded invitations to speak (on Creoles and/or Roma) in Nigeria, Brazil, Macao, Cordoba, Paris, Bergen, Brussels, Roma, Prague, Belgrade).e Graduate Advisor, Linguistics Department, 2000-2007. Faculty Promotions Review Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1999-2001. Graduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics, 1996-1998. Undergraduate Advisor, Linguistics Department, 1995-1996. Chair of the Publications Committee, African and Afro-American Studies Center, 1993-98. Organized an interdepartmental conference on the German deportations of Roma, The University of Texas, November 10th 1992. Organizing international symposium on Roma for January, 2010, Center for C Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate Advisor, Foreign Language Education Center, 1980-1983. President’s Advisory Council on Student Affairs member, 1978-1979. 4 Board Member, Afro-American Players, Inc., 1978-1981. Advisory Board Member, Texas Committee for the Humanities, 1978-present. Evaluator for Texas Committee for the Humanities Symposium on Czech Language and Folklife in Texas, 1978. Faculty Council traffic and parking grievance committee, 2007-2008. University Parking and Traffic Advisory Committee, 1977-1978. Chair, Language and Linguistics Committee, 1976. Served on Advisory Committee on Bilingual Education in the case between the U.S. Government and The Texas Board of Education, 1975. Fellowship and Student Aid Committee (past) Faculty Sponsor/Advisor, International Students’ Organization (past) Minority Students’ Liaison Committee member (past) African Exchange Selection Committee (past) C. Non-University-related Involvement: Appointed as State Commissioner, Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. On April 20th I and two other commissioners visited the state capitol to petitioned the Texas Senate to have April officially recognized as Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month. I oversaw the final wording of this document, ensuring the inclusion of reference to the Gypsy victims of the Holocaust (following Himmler’s Final Solution of the Gypsy Question of March, 1938). It was passed and subsequently issued as Resolution No. 258 on June 28. THGC Coordinator/liaison, Native American and Buffalo Soldiers dispute, Houston round table, Spring 2012. Elected to the Council of Europe’s Academic Network on Romani Studies, 2011. Board Member, Roma Diplomatic Corps, European Union, Brussels. Main Representative, United Nations Præsidium of the International Romani Union (UN Economic and Social Council, Category II), 1972-1978. Received a grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States to attend the UN meeting in New York in March, 1993 at which I petitioned successfully for Category II membership for the International Romani Union. United Nations Ambassador representing 12m Roma and main UNICEF representative, 1986- 1999, reappointed 2005-2009 (UN File No. 1321140). North American Representative Member, International Roma Parliament (Vienna), 2004-present. 5 Board Member, Jasenovac Concentration Camp Committee, Belgrade, 1999- Member, The Center for the Study of Ethnic and Racial Violence, Inc. (University of Colorado), November, 1995- Advisor, Mexico-US Borderlands Culture Project educational package, Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (as of September, 1993). Member, Romani Advisory Committee, Project on Ethnic Relations (Princeton), 1993-. Board member (as Romani representative), Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), 1993-. Member, Association for the Advancement of Education for Democracy (Switzerland), 1993-. I created (1993-1999) and supervised Romnet, an internet server linking ca. 200 people around the world who share various Roma-related interests. President, International Roma Federation, 1993-1996. Member, Soros-Roma Foundation, 1992-. Board Member, Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holocaust through the Performing Arts, Inc., 1986-1988. Board member, Center for Cultural Studies, Inc. (Baltimore), 1985-1991. Special Advisor on Gypsy-related Holocaust Affairs to Elie Wiesel, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Washington, 1985-1987. Received a grant to visit The University of Hawai’i for 16 days as consultant to the Hamilton Library Special Collection of creole linguistic materials, 1983. Member, Austin World Affairs Council, 1980-1988. Received a grant to prepare index of North-West Coast Native Peoples myth motifs for British Columbia Historical Archives, 1972. Chair, Commission for the Great Romani Encyclopedia (a fifteen member team coordinating the production of a 20-volume Romani-language all-topic encyclopedia). Member of various regional US organizations, Chicago Gypsy Alliance, National League Against Antigypsyism (Ann Arbor), Romani Zor (Dallas) and Sa-Roma, Inc. (Minneapolis). Member, International Committee on the Fate of Roma in the Holocaust, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany). Member, Initiatives Tziganes (Paris). Member, Advisory