KRISTINE A. HILDEBRANDT

Professor Department of English Language and Literature Website: http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb

Co-Director IRIS Digital Humanities Center https://iris.siue.edu/ E-mail: [email protected] Updated: June 2021

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2003 (Dissertation Title: Manange Tone: Scenarios of Retention & Loss in Two Communities; Dissertation Supervisor: Carol Genetti; Committee Members: Matthew Gordon, Marianne Mithun, Michael Noonan) M.A., English with Linguistics Concentration, Arizona State University, 1997 (Thesis Title: Minimalism, Functional Categories & O’odham Word Order Patterns; Thesis Supervisor: Elly van Gelderen; Committee Members: Karen Adams, Leonard Faltz) B.A., English (Philosophy minor), Keene State College, NH, 1992

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

July 2019-continuing Professor, Department of English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville July 2012-continuing Associate Professor, Department of English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2008-June 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2005-2008 Lecturer, Linguistics & English Language, University of Manchester, England 2003-2005 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Germany

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Topic Areas Phonetics-phonology interfaces, prosodic domains, typology, language documentation, language contact & maintenance/shift, , grammaticization, discourse-functional approaches, corpus linguistics & discourse analysis, digital humanities

Languages/Cultural Areas Sino-Tibetan (including Tibeto-Burman) languages, Indo-Aryan languages, Indosphere/Sinosphere areal linguistics, English, the South Asian linguistic area, Uto-Aztecan languages

1 TEACHING EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Teaching at SIUE • Language & Ethnicity • Interdisciplinary Studies: Mind & Language (co-instructor Judith Crane) • Seminar in Second Language Acquisition • Language Endangerment & Death • Principles of Linguistics • Semantics & Pragmatics • Discourse Analysis • Graduate Research Methods • Phonetics & Phonology • Morphological Analysis • Freshman Composition: Research with Argument Component • Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Humanities (Lab/Internship)

Teaching at the University of Florida: CoLang Summer Institute of Collaborative Language Research (Summer 2018) • Phonetic Analysis with Praat • Spatial Visualization and Language Documentation

Teaching at University of Alaska Fairbanks: CoLang Summer Institute of Collaborative Language Research (Summer 2016) • Spatial Visualization and Language Documentation

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES & OUTPUTS

PUBLISHED/ACCEPTED/UNDER REVISION ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

A micro-typology of contact effects in four Tibeto-Burman languages (co-authors Oliver Bond and Dubi Nanda Dhakal). Journal of Language Contact. Accepted/In Press.

This is the end: Earthquake narratives and Buddhist prophesies of decline (co-authors Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, and Christina Juenger). Himalaya. 2021/In Press. 41.1: 1-18.

Direction and associated motion in Tibeto-Burman. (co-authors Carol Genetti, Alexia Fawcett, Nathaniel Sims). Linguistic Typology. 2021. 25.2: 345-388. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020- 2064

Reported speech in earthquake narratives from six Tibeto-Burman languages. (co-author Lauren Gawne). Studies in Language. 2020. 44.2: 461-499. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18028.gaw.

Language documentation in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: A guide to two archives and a web exhibit. (co-authors Tanner Burge-Beckley and Jacob Sebok). Language Documentation & Conservation. 2019. 13: 618-651.

2 Teaching about endangered languages in the undergraduate curriculum. Language and Linguistics Compass. 2018 [a]. 12.7.1. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12283.

Narrating disaster in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: Linguistic and sociocultural perspectives. (co-authors Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, Mark Donohue, Dubi Nanda Dhakal, Bhoj Raj Gautam). Contributions to Nepalese Studies. 2018 [b]. 10.1/2: 207-236.

Narrating disaster through participatory research after the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. (co authors Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, Mark Donohue, Dubi Nanda Dhakal, Bhoj Raj Gautam). Collaborative Anthropologies. 2018 [c]. 10.1/2: 207-236. 10.1353/cla.2017.0009.

Kinship in three Tamangic varieties. (co-authors Oliver Bond and Dubi Nanda Dhakal). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 2018 [d]. 41: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.

Minority language education in Nepal: The view from a Himalayan village. (co-author Jessica Krim). Language Problems and Language Planning. 2018 [e]. 43.1: 16-44. 10.1075/lplp.00003.hil.

Web-based multimedia mapping for spatial analysis and visualization in the Digital Humanities: A case study of language documentation in Nepal. (co-authors Shunfu Hu and Brajesh Karna). Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis. 2018 [f]. 2.3: 1-14. 10.1007/S41651-017-00124.

Spatial relations in Manange and Nar-Phu. Himalayan Linguistics. 2017 [a]. 16.1. 41-58. https://doi.org/10.5070/H916130247

‘Community’ and ‘collaboration’ in undergraduate language documentation research: A case study from Nepal and a U.S. university. CUR Quarterly. 2017 [b]. 37.3: 46-47.

Introduction: Documenting variation in endangered and under-studied languages and dialects. (co- authors and co-editors Wilson Silva and Carmen Jany). Special Publication 13 in Language Documentation & Conservation. 2017 [c]. 1-7.

Areal analysis of language attitudes and practices: A case study from Nepal. (co-author Shunfu Hu). Language Documentation & Conservation. Special Publication 13. 2017 [d]. 152-179.

A sociolinguistic survey of the languages of Manang, Nepal: Co-existence and endangerment. (co- authors D.N. Dhakal, O. Bond, M. Vallejo, A. Fyffe). NFDIN Journal. 2015. 14.6: 104-122.

Multimedia mapping on the Internet and language documentation: New directions in interdisciplinarity. (co-author Shunfu Hu). Polymath. 2013. 3.1: 51-61.

Stress timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in prosodic phonology. (co-authors René Schiering and Balthasar Bickel). Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung [Language Typology and Universals]. 2012. 65.2: 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2012.0010

3 The prosodic hierarchy is not universal. (co-authors Balthasar Bickel & René Schiering). Journal of Linguistics. 2012. 46: 657-709. doi:10.1017/S0022226710000216

Preliminary notes on Gyalsumdo: An undocumented Tibetan variety in Manang District, Nepal. (co-author Joseph Perry). Himalayan Linguistics. 2011. 10.1: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5070/H910123573

Syntactic aspects of nominalization in five Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area. (co- authors Carol Genetti, Alec Coupe, Ellen Bartee, and You-Jing Lin). Linguistics of the Tibeto- Burman Area. 2009 [a]. 31.2: 97-143.

WALS in the university classroom: A review. (co-author Oliver Bond). Linguistic Typology 2009 [b]. 13.1 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1515/LITY.2009.010

Phonological and morphological domains in Kyirong Tibetan. (first author T. Alan Hall). Linguistics. 2008 [a]. 46.2: 215-248. https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2008.010

Theory and typology of the word. (co-authors T. A. Hall & Balthasar Bickel). Linguistics. 2008 [b]. 46.2 :183-192. https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2008.008

Prosodic and grammatical domains in Limbu. Himalayan Linguistics. 2007. 8. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.5070/H98023041

A Phonetic Analysis of Manange Segmental & Suprasegmental Properties. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 2005. 28.1 1-36.

PUBLISHED/ACCEPTED CHAPTERS IN EDITED, PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS

Word prominence in languages of Southern Asia (co-author Gregory D.S. Anderson). Word Prominence in Morphologically Complex Languages (editors Harry van der Hulst and Ksenia Bogolomets). Oxford University Press. Accepted/In Press.

Design principles and implementation in the development of AUTOTYP. (co-authors Elena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols, and Taras Zakharko). The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (editors Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren B. Collister). MIT Open Press. In Press/2021.

Manange. (co-author Oliver Bond) p. 516-533 in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd edition (editors Randy J. LaPolla and Graham Thurgood). London: Routledge. 2017 [a].

Nar-Phu. (co-author Michael Noonan) p. 534-556 in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd edition (editors Randy J. LaPolla and Graham Thurgood). London: Routledge. 2017 [b].

4 Chantyal. (revised version of Michael Noonan’s original publication) p. 494-515 in The Sino- Tibetan Languages, 2nd edition (editors Randy J. LaPolla and Graham Thurgood). London: Routledge. 2017 [c].

The prosodic word. p. 221-245 in Oxford Handbook of Words (editor John Taylor). Oxford University Press. 2015.

Thirty-three entries in Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Phonetics and Phonology (editors Tracy Alan Hall and Bernd Pompino-Marschall). deGruyter Mouton. 2014.

Manange (South Asia): A language sketch. p. 404-423 in How Languages Work. (editor Carol Genetti). U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2013 (2nd edition published in 2018) [a].

Converb and aspect marking polysemy in Nar. p. 97-117 in Responses to Language Endangerment: In Honor of Mickey Noonan. (editors Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei- Doval, & Kathleen Wheatley). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2013 [b].

Negation across Nar discourse genres. (co-author Oliver Bond). p. 141-150 in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Documentation & Linguistic Typology. (editors Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, David Nathan, Lutz Marten). SOAS. 2011.

The distribution of phonological word domains: A probabilistic typology. (co-authors Balthasar Bickel & René Schiering). p. 47-75 in Phonological Domains: Universals & Deviations. (editors Baris Kabak & Janet Grijzenhout). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009 [b].

Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. Loanwords in the World's Languages. (editors Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmoor) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009 [c].

BOOK REVIEWS

A review of Himalayan Languages and Linguistics (editors Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler). Himalayan Linguistics 12.1 1-5. 2013.

A review of Rabha (U.V. Joseph). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 44.1 139-141. 2011.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Autotyp Typological Databases, Version 0.1.0. (co-authors Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols, Taras Zakharko, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Michael Rießler, Lennart Bierkandt, Fernando Zúñiga, and John B. Lowe). 2017.

Gyalsumdo: A Community-Based Dictionary. (co-authors Dubi Nanda Dhakal and Jessica Krim) Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Kathmandu, approximately 200 pages. 2016 [a].

5 Shattered homes and hard choices in post-quake Nepal. Field Notes in Sapiens, a Wenner-Gren funded digital publication (co-authors Sienna Craig, Geoff Childs, Mark Donohue). 2016 [b].

Language documentation and language discovery in Nepal. p. 23-32 in Adventures in the Academy: Professors in the Land of Lincoln and Beyond. (editors Larry LaFond, Charles Berger & Aldemaro Romero). Southern Illinois University Press. 2010.

JURIED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Natural Disasters elicit spontaneous multimodal iconicity in onomatopoeia & gesture: Earthquake narratives from Nepal and New Zealand (co-presenters Lauren Gawne and Casey Ford). 7th meeting of the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i, March 4-7, 2021.

Giving cultural and social meaning to disaster: Himalayan highlander responses to the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. (co-presenters Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, Christina Juenger). 53rd meeting of the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, October 2, 2020.

In Their Own Words: Survivor Perspectives of Origins and Impacts of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. (co-presenter Christina Juenger). Poster presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 17, 2019.

Multilayered collaboration: Documentation and archival construction in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. (co-presenters Tanner Burge-Beckley and Jacob Sebok). 6th meeting of the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i, February 28, 2019.

A Micro-typology of Contact Effects and Viability in Tibetic and Tamangic (Tibeto-Burman). Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY. January 6, 2019.

Argument Structure Functions of Spatial Encoding Sub-Systems in Tibeto-Burman Languages. (co-presenters Carol Genetti, Alexia Fawcett, Patrick Hall, Nathaniel Sims). Association for Linguistic Typology Biennial Meeting. Canberra, , December 14, 2017.

Evidentials and Experiencer Recollections: A Crosslinguistic Analysis. (co-presenter Lauren Gawne). Workshop on Reported Speech, Association for Linguistic Typology Biennial Meeting. Canberra, Australia, December 15, 2017.

Introducing Undergraduate Students to Language Endangerment. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting CELP-sponsored Special Session. Austin, TX, January 6, 2017.

‘Community’ and ‘Collaboration’ in Undergraduate Language Documentation Research: A Case Study from Nepal and a U.S. University. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting CELP- sponsored Special Session. Austin, TX, January 6, 2017.

6 Tibeto-Burman Tone Typology. (co-presenter Amos Teo). International Workshop on the Typological Profiles of Language Families of South Asia. Uppsala, Sweden, September 16, 2016.

Typology of Spatial and Motion Distinctions in Tibeto-Burman Verbal Expressions. (co- presenters Carol Genetti, Nathan Sims, Alexia Fawcett). International Workshop on the Typological Profiles of Language Families of South Asia. Uppsala, Sweden, September 16, 2016.

The Languages of Manang, Nepal: Practices and Prospects. 4th ANHS Meeting, University of Texas Austin, February 27, 2016.

Narrating Disaster: Linguistic and Cultural Impacts in the Face of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. 64th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University at St Louis, October 17, 2015.

Conditional Exponents on Topicality in Tamangic. (co-presenter Oliver Bond) 48th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, August 17-23, 2015.

Conditions on Differential Ergative Case Marking. (co-presenter Oliver Bond) Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, January 8-11, 2015.

What Differentiates What? Differential Subject and Object Marking in the Tibeto-Burman Languages of Manang, Nepal. (co-presenter Oliver Bond) Syntax of the World’s Languages 6, University of Pavia, Italy, September 8-10, 2014.

A Micro-typology of Contact Effects and Viability in Tibetic and Tamangic (Tibeto-Burman). (co- presenter Oliver Bond) 4th Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation Conference, SOAS, London, U.K. December 8, 2013.

Optional Ergative Case Marking: What Can Be Expressed By Its Absence? (Oliver Bond presented; I am co-author) 10th Biennial Association for Linguistic Typology Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, August 15-18, 2013.

Attitudes, Practices, Co-existence & Endangerment: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Gurung & Gyalsumdo (Manang, Nepal). 46th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, August 8-10, 2013.

‘Community’ & ‘Collaboration’ in the South Asian Context: A Case Study from Nepal. Poster for CELP Panel, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 6, 2013.

Acoustic & Articulatory Analysis of Tone in Four Languages of Nepal. 45th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Linguistics, Nanyang Technical University, , October 26-28, 2012.

Adventures in Describing Everything: Two Approaches to Language Documentation in Nepal. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 26th Linguistics Symposium (Endangered Languages), Wisconsin, WI, Oct. 20-22, 2011.

7 Going There & Mapping It: The Status of the COT/CAUGHT Vowels in Southwestern Illinois English. (co-presenters Larry LaFond & Laura Wehmer). American Dialect Society Midwest Region fall meeting, St. Louis, MO Nov. 3-6, 2011.

Negation Across Nar Discourse Genres. (co-presenter Oliver Bond). 3rd Workshop on Language Documentation & Linguistic Typology, London, England, Nov. 17-21, 2011.

Gurung (Tibeto-Burman) at the Tonogenetic Crossroads. Paper presented at the 15th Mid- Continental Workshop on Phonology, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, October 10, 2009.

Omnisyllabicity & Hiatus in Sino-Tibetan. Poster Presented at the 17th Annual Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, England, May 30, 2009.

th Tonal F0 Variation in Manange (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal): A Case Study. Paper presented at the 14 Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, October 18, 2008.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Giving cultural and social meaning to disaster: Himalayan highlander responses to the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. 53rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Denton, Texas, October 2, 2020.

Mapping Language Practices and Language Prospects in Nepal. Foundation for Endangered Languages XXII. Reykjavik, Iceland, August 25, 2018.

Archives and Archival Preparation in Language Documentation. Workshop on Archiving for Documentation Fieldworkers, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 29, 2017.

Defining the Digital Humanities. University of North Texas Digital Humanities Initiative Presentation, November 10, 2017.

Methods in Electroglottographic Analysis of Tone and Phonation. Oklahoma State University Linguistics Program Workshop, November 9, 2017.

Areal Analysis of Language Attitudes and Practices: Co-existence and Endangerment in Manang, Nepal. Oklahoma State University public presentation, November 8, 2017.

Defining the Digital Humanities. Oklahoma State University Digital Humanities Initiative Presentation, November 7, 2017.

Methods in Electroglottographic Analysis of Tone and Phonation. International Christian University Linguistics Program Workshop, October 1-7, 2016.

8 A micro-typology of contact effects and language viability in Tibetic & Tamangic (Tibeto- Burman). Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) Linguistics Department Seminar, April 8, 2016.

Defining the Digital Humanities. (co-presenter Jessica deSpain). Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), April 8, 2016.

Spatial Relations in Manange (Tamangic) With Comparative Reference to Nar-Phu. 48th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, August 17-23, 2015.

Multi-media Mapping and Language Documentation: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities. First Workshop on Innovation in Linguistic Fieldwork, , June 12-13, 2015.

A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Languages of Manang, Nepal: Co-existence and Endangerment. Colloquium Presentation, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, July 26, 2014.

A Micro-typology of Contact Effects in Tibeto-Burman. Colloquium Presentation, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, July 21, 2014.

Mapping Variation in Manang, Nepal. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Linguistics, Rice University, October 10 2013.

Digital Humanities and Rural Communities. (co-presenter Jessica DeSpain) THATCamp Southeastern Missouri, Arcadia MO, September 28, 2013.

Mapping Variation in Manang, Nepal. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College, April 10, 2013.

Mapping Variation in Manang, Nepal. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara, May 10, 2012.

Mapping variation in Manang, Nepal. Plenary presentation at the 17th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe Japan, September 8, 2011.

Stop Contrasts & Laryngeal Features in Two Indic Languages Presentation for Linguistics & English Language, University of Manchester, March 23, 2012.

Prosodic Words: Cross-Linguistic Challenges & Probabilistic Alternatives. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 18, 2010.

Surface & Deep-Level Contact Effects in Manange (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal). Seminar Presentation for Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Illinois State University, Bloomington- Normal, April 1 2009.

9 Languages in Contact in Nepal: Manange, Gurung & Nepali. Presentation for Students & Professors Exploring all Cultures (S.P.E.A.C.), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 14 2009.

Loanwords in Manange (Bodish). Centre for Nepal & Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal, August 2008.

Languages in Contact in Nepal: Manange, Gurung & Nepali. USEF-Nepal & Fulbright Alumni Association of Nepal, Kathmandu Nepal, August 2008.

DIGITAL INNOVATIONS & OUTPUTS Web-page: Fifteen Years of NSF Documenting Endangered Languages retrospective (https://iris.siue.edu/delfifteen/) Web-page: Manang (Nepal) Languages (https://mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu/) Web-page: Nepal Earthquakes Project (https://iris.siue.edu/nepal-earthquakes/) SIUE Archive: Nepal Earthquakes Project (https://iris.siue.edu/nepal-earthquakes/archive) SIUE Archive: Manang Languages Archive (https://iris.siue.edu/manang-languages- archive/exhibits) Tibetan-Himalayan Library SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities and Arts Initiatives of Technical Humanities, University of Virginia) creator of several collections: Gyalsumdo (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/gyalsumdo-project) Gurung (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/western-gurung#) Manange (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/manange#) Nar-Phu (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/nar-phu#) Nubri (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/nubri-reflections-2015-nepal earthquakes) Tsum (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/tsum-reflections-2015-nepal earthquakes) Lowa (https://audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu/collection/lowa-reflections-2015-nepal earthquakes) Collaborator on interactive linguistic atlas of Manang, Nepal (with Shunfu Hu and Brajesh Karna) (https://mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu/atlas/) Web-page: ELDP Nar-Phu Deposit (http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/hildebrandt2011narphu) Web-page/Blog: IRIS Center (https://iris.siue.edu/ & http://siueiris.com/)

FUNDING ACHIEVEMENTS & ACTIVITIES

UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL

Conference: Understanding the Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts of Fifteen Years of U.S. Federal Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages. (Co-Investigator April Laktonen Councellor). National Science Foundation ($30,790 FUNDED, 2019-2020).

Documenting Endangered Traditional Knowledge: The Language of Bees, Their Management, and Histories in Three Ethnolinguistic Communities of Nepal. ELDP submission, NOT FUNDED.

10 Himalayan Plants and People Respond to Climate Change. (Principal Investigator Robbie Hart, Missouri Botanical Garden; Co-I’s Gregory Anderson, David Harrison, Peter Hovamund). National Science Foundation, NOT FUNDED.

Humanities Connection Grant: Digital Community Engagement Pathway. (Principal Investigator Jessica DeSpain). National Endowment for the Humanities ($35,000 FUNDED, 2018-2020).

Humanities Challenge Grant: Conversation Toward a Brighter Future. (Principal Investigator Jessica DeSpain). National Endowment for the Humanities ($200,000 FUNDED, 2018-2020, NEH ZH 258469).

NSF-DEL 1547377: REU Supplement Two Earthquake Origins. ($4,500 funded, 2018-2019).

NSF-DEL 154737: REU Supplement One Towards a Local Archive & Exhibit. ($6,600 funded, 2017-2018).

RAPID: Calibrating Causality and Responses to the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal (co-investigators: Geoff Childs, Washington University St. Louis; Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College; Mark Donohue, Australian National University; National Science Foundation, ($89,000 FUNDED, 2015-2020 NSF BCS-DEL 1547377).

Life in Balance: Re-imagining Work, Play, and Community in the St. Louis Metro East. (co- investigator Eric Rukh, SIUE). National Endowment for the Humanities ($180,105 not funded).

NSF-DEL 1149639 REU Supplement Anishinaabe Language and Art Revitalization Through New Technologies. ($4,000 funded, 2014-2015).

CAREER: Documenting the Languages of Manang, Nepal for Local & International Impact. National Science Foundation, CAREER grant ($408,000 FUNDED, 2012-2017 NSF BCS-DEL 1149639).

Nar & Phu (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal): Field Research for an Audio-Visual Archive of Comparative Lexical & Text Material. Endangered Languages Documentation Small Grant, 2010-2011 ($15,702, FUNDED, 2010-2011).

UNIVERSITY INTERNAL

Establishing an Official Center of Interdisciplinary Research & Informatics Scholarship at SIUE (co-P.I. Jessica DeSpain) Seed Grants for Transitional & Exploratory Projects ($10,000, FUNDED, 2012-2013).

Phonation Types & Laryngeal Classes in the Indic Languages. Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator’s Grant ($12,200, FUNDED, July 2011-June 2012).

11 Creating an Interdisciplinary Minor in Informatics Scholarship. Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant (co-PI’s Jessica DeSpain & Matthew S.S. Johnson) ($10,360.00, FUNDED, 2011- 2012).

Dialect Variation in Southwestern Illinois. Seed Grants for Transitional & Exploratory Projects ($15,000, FUNDED, 2010-2011).

Expanding Interdisciplinary Connections in the Teaching of Linguistics at SIUE: Two New Courses. Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant ($5050.00, FUNDED, 2009-2010).

Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities research assistantships (URCA) AY’s 2010-2017: A total of 18 URCA Students have worked as research interns, with and without stipends.

The Sounds of Manang-Gurung. Summer Research Fellowship ($4,000, FUNDED, 2008-2009).

Awards

Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award, SIUE, 2017

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editor, Himalayan Linguistics, Fall 2012-ongoing Editorial Board Member, Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology [EALT], deGruyter Mouton, Fall 2012-ongoing Editorial Board Member, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Benjamins, Fall 2016-ongoing Co-editor for a special issue in memory of Michael Noonan & David Watters, Himalayan Linguistics, 10.1 2011

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

I am the co-founder and co-director of the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities at SIUE I am the President for the Endangered Language Fund, 2019-present I am an Executive Committee member for the Association of Linguistic Typology I was the Vice President for the Endangered Language Fund, 2018-2019 I was the Secretary for the Association of Linguistic Typology, 2016-2019 I was a participant and presenter at the 2016 SIUE THATCamp I was the senior co-chair (2015) for the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), and I maintained a role as their blog editor (http://www.linguisticsociety.org/blog/endangered-languages-and-their-preservation-celp) until 2018 I served as an undergraduate honors external examiner for Swarthmore College (2018) I have served as an anonymous peer reviewer for many funding agencies, journals and publishing houses in my field

12 Professional Memberships Member and Junior Chair (2014), Committee on Endangered Languages and their Protection (LSA) Editorial Board Member, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Member and Secretary (2016-ongoing), Association for Linguistic Typology Member: Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Society of Nepal, Manchester Phonology Meeting

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