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Arienne M. Dwyer Arienne M. Dwyer University of Kansas Department of Anthropology 1415 Jayhawk Blvd. - Fraser Hall 638 Lawrence, KS 66045 USA [email protected] Tel. +1 (785) 864-2649 Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities , University of Kansas, 2010–. Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University Kansas, 8/2012–. Courtesy affiliations in Linguistics and Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, 2003–. Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2008–2012. Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2001–2008. Humboldt Scholar and Lecturer, Seminar für Orientkunde, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1997–2001. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics, 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 (somewhat rusty) French; native speaker of Am. English. High intermediate competence in Japanese and NW Chinese, Salar, Kyrgyz, and Kazakh. Reading competence in Classical Chinese, Manchu, pre-13th c. Turkic, and some Russian. Learning Monguor, Wutun and ASL. RESEARCH INTERESTS Language Contact and variation (areal processes, linguistic creolization, discourse and ideologies) Digital Humanities, Media Archives, cyberinfrastructure: Computing applications, cultural practices and standards for analyzing data and representing knowledge; corpora, relational databases, XML tools, Unicode. China; Chinese Inner Asia (especially Xinjiang and Qinghai); Kyrgyzstan Language Endangerment and Revitalization; Less-commonly taught language pedagogy Sinitic, Turkic, and Mongolic languages Performance, narrative structure and ethnopoetics SPONSORED RESEARCH (all as sole P.I. unless otherwise indicated) P.I. Light verbs in Uyghur. NSF-BCS 1053152 (2011-2014). Project website: http://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu P.I. Interactive Inner Asia: documenting an endangered language contact area. NSF-BCS 1065524 (2011-2014). Project website: http://iaia.ittc.ku.edu P.I. Co-Lang: Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation Training , NSF-BCS 1065469 (May 2011- 2012). Project website: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/ Collaborator, INTEROP: Lexicon enhancement via GOLD (LEGO). P.I.s: Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry, 2008–2010. P.I. (with Co-PIs Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Aristar) Workshop: Towards Interoperability in Language Resources . 13-15 July 2007, Stanford University. NSF-Linguistics. NSF-BCS 0709732 , 2006-2007. Collaborator, Language and Location: A Multimodal Annotation Project (LL-MAP) . P.I.s: Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry, 2006–2008. 1 Dwyer CV / May 2012 P.I., Workshop: Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics . Michigan State University, June 22–23, 2006. [NSF- CISE, NSF-Linguistics: NSF-BCS 0624048 ], 2006. Fellowship, Language Contact and Variation: A Discourse-based Grammar of Monguor [ NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program ( FA 52154-05 )], 2005–2006. Fellowship, Interactive Taklamakan: A Multimedia Database of Uyghur Dialects [ACLS International and Area Studies], 2002–2003. P.I., The Documentation of Salar and Monguor [Volkswagen Foundation Documentation of Endangered Languages Pilot, Interim, and Main project grants], 2000–2008. P.I., The Salar Spoken Text Project , Salar-English Dictionary Project , 1997–2000. [A.v.Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research, 1997–1998, 1999; UNESCO/CIPSH; Dictionary Society of North America]. The Salar Language of China , NEH Dissertation Fellowship ( FD 21654-94 ), 1994–1995. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Training Grant (China), 1991–1992 (+1993). National Academy of Sciences CSCPR China (now ACLS/NAS/SSRC American Research in the Humanities in China) Dissertation Fellowship, 1991–1992. EXTERNAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS 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: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/jrp/jrp164 . April 2010-March 2013. Joint Researcher: Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo. Project URL and documents online: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/jrp/jrp166 April 2010-March 2013. Open Society Institute Academic Fellow (Nonresident Scholar), American U of Central Asia Anthropology Department, 2006-2007. INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS CTE Innovations in Learning Grant (with Anne Dotter, Doug Ward, and Julie Buchsbaum): pending 2012. University of Kansas General Research Fund grants: 2009, 2004, 2002. P.I. The Papuan Ipili Language Archive [ KU Digital Library Initiative grant ], Jan–June 2003. University of Kansas Instructional Development Services, Quest for the Best grant, 2002. University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities, International Scholars program grant, 2002. Computing Applications Researcher, Saving the Tewa Stories - A Model for Preserving Native Languages , Univ. of Washington Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities , 1995– 96. Staff Research Assistant in Chinese Linguistics, University of Washington, 1990–1991. FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowships, 1987–1988, 1988–1989, 1992–1993, 1993–1994. Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, University of Washington, 1986–1987. RESEARCH PRIZES AND AWARDS Balfour Jeffreys Career Research Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities , University of Kansas, 2009. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductee, 2008. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bursary Award (Linguistic Corpora), 1997. IN-SITU RESEARCH 2 Dwyer CV / May 2012 1985–1986 Taipei, Taiwan: comparative Sinitic 1987; 1988 Seattle, USA: Sinitic languages (Hainan Min [Chinese]; Hezhou NW Mandarin) 1991–1993 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang]: Modern & Old Uyghur, Kazakh, NW Mandarin 7.97, 10.98, 2.99, 7.00 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang], China: Uyghur dialectology and discourse 1992–93, 8.97, 8.98, 1.99, 7.00 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Salar language & ethnoreligious history 1993 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Northwest Mandarin comparative syntax July 2000 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Monguor dialogic love songs Feb 1993 Amdo Tibet [Gansu], China: Kazakh dialogic love songs and oral history June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gansu], China: Tibetan love songs ( layi ) June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gansu], China: multiethnic hua’er song festivals and religious ritual 6-7.01, 6-7.02, 11.02 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai]: Wutun creole, Monguor oral history; Mandarin spread Jan-Feb 2003 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Minhe Monguor Jun-Jul 2004 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Wutun legends Aug 2004 Naryn, Kochkor, Issyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz legends Jan 2005 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Monguor morphology Apr 2005 Ellis Co., Kansas, USA: archaic Volga German dialects May 2005 Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., USA: Language purism 7-8.2005, 7-8.2006 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: Monguor healing practices Oct 2006 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang], China: Salar architecture & archaeology May 2008 Jalalabad & Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Language policy and language attitudes July 2009 Issyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz blessings and curses August 2011 Amdo Tibet [Qinghai], China: comparative lexicography and grammar REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS (5) Dwyer, Arienne M. Under contract 2012. Salar: a study in Inner Asian areal contact processes , Part II: Grammar . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (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 . (3) Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer , eds. 2008. Lessons from documented endangered languages . Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (2) Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Salar: a study in Inner Asian areal contact processes , Part I: Phonology . Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. (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 . ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (P EER -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. 3 Dwyer CV / May 2012 (20) Dwyer, Arienne M. forthcoming 2012. The expressive life of religions: Do religion practices strengthen or weaken language vitality? David Bradley (ed.), The Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment special issue, International Journal of the Sociology of Language . (19) Dwyer, Arienne M. Forthcoming 2012. (Submitted, accepted). Uprooted and replanted: recontextualizing a genre. In Filiz Kıral, ed. Turkic Historical Linguistics. Istanbuler Texte und Studien. Würzburg: Ergon. Postprint . (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 . (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 . (16) Dwyer, Arienne M. 2008. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. In Harrison, K. David, David Rood,
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