CURRICULUM VITAE

ANTHONY K. WEBSTER

Department of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin SAC 4.102 2201 Speedway Stop C3200 Austin TX 78712

EDUCATION

2004 Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation: Navajo Poetry, Linguistic Ideology, and Identity: The Case of an Emergent Literary Tradition. Chairs: Joel F. Sherzer and Pauline Turner Strong

1997 M.A. in Anthropology, minor in Linguistics, New Mexico State University. MA Thesis: Sam Kenoi’s Coyote Stories: An Ethnopoetic analysis of some Chiricahua Apache narratives. Chair: Scott Rushforth

1993 B.A. (with Distinction) in Anthropology, minors in English Literature and Political Science at Purdue University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013- University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.

2010-13 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.

2005-10 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology.

2004-05 Wesleyan University, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2004 Idaho State University, Visiting Assistant Professor.

2001-02 University of Massachusetts Boston, Lecturer.

1999 New Mexico State University, Summer Term College Instructor.

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1998 New Mexico State University, Summer Term College Instructor.

PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS

Books:

2009 Explorations in Navajo poetry and poetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Guest Editor, Refereed Journal:

To appear Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013)

2012 Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso. Special Issue Journal of Anthropological Research. (co-editor with Juan Luis Rodriguez). 68(3). 305-422.

2011 American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. Special Issue American Indian Culture & Research Journal. (co-editor with Leighton C. Peterson). 35(2): 1-182.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Professional Journals:

Accepted “A Note on Albert Gatschet’s Lipan Apache Elicitations.” International Journal of American Linguistics.

To appear “Introducing Ethnopoetics: Hymes’s Legacy.” (with Paul V. Kroskrity) Article for Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013)

To appear “The validity of Navajo is in its sounds:” On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice. Article for Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes. Special Issue Journal of Folklore Research. (co-editor with Paul V. Kroskrity). (2013)

2013 Speech Play and Language Ideologies in Navajo Terminology Development. (with Leighton C. Peterson) Pragmatics. 23(1): 93-116.

2012 Who reads Navajo poetry and what are they reading? Exploring the semiotic functions of contemporary written Navajo. Social Semiotics.

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2012 “Don’t Talk About It”: Navajo poets and their ordeals of language. Journal of Anthropological Research. 68(3): 399-414.

2012 Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso. (with Juan Luis Rodriguez) Journal of Anthropological Research. 68(3). 305-314.

2012 Blackhorse Mitchell’s ‘Beauty of Navajoland’: Bivalency, dooajinída, and the work of contemporary Navajo poetry. Semiotica. 189(1/4): 97- 131.

2011 “We don’t know what we become:” Navajo ethnopoetics and expressive features in a poem by Rex Lee Jim. (with Blackhorse Mitchell) Anthropological Linguistics. 53(3): 259-286.

2011 Mai ‘íńtin hułghułná’a/ ‘Ałk’id osh, jiní: Poetic Devices in Chiricahua Apache and Navajo Coyote Narratives Compared. Journal of the Southwest. 53(3-4): 323-378.

2011 “Please Read Loose:” Intimate Grammars and Unexpected Languages in Contemporary Navajo Literature. Special Issue: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (edited by Leighton C. Peterson and Anthony K. Webster). American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 35(2): 61-86.

2011 Introduction: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (with Leighton C. Peterson). Special Issue: American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places. (edited by Leighton C. Peterson and Anthony K. Webster). American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 35(2): 1-18.

2010 On Intimate Grammars, with examples from Navajo English, Navlish, and Navajo. Journal of Anthropological Research. 66(2): 187-208.

2010 “Tséyi’ First, Because Navajo Language Was Here Before Contact:” On Intercultural Performances, Metasemiotic Stereotypes, and the Dynamics of Place. Semiotica. 181(1/4):149-178.

2010 A Note on Navajo Interlingual Puns. International Journal of American Linguistics. 76 (2): 289-298.

2010 Imagining Navajo in the Boarding School: Laura Tohe’s No Parole Today and the Intimacy of Language Ideologies. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 20(1): 39-62.

3 2010 “Still, she didn’t see what I was trying to say”: Towards a History of Framing Navajo English in Navajo Poetry. World Englishes. 29(1): 75-96.

2009 The Poetics and Politics of Navajo Ideophony in Contemporary Navajo Poetry. Language & Communication. 29(2): 133-151.

2008 “Plaza’góó and before he can respond...”: Language Ideology, Bilingual Navajo, and Navajo Poetry. Pragmatics. 18(3): 511-541.

2008 Running Again, Roasting Again, Touching Again: On repetition, heightened affective expressivity and the utility of linguaculture in Navajo and beyond. Journal of American Folklore. 121(482): 441-472.

2008 “To give an imagination to the listeners:” The neglected poetics of Navajo ideophony. Semiotica. 171 (1/4):343-365.

2008 A Note on Plains Apache Warpath Vocabulary. International Journal of American Linguistics. 74(2): 257-261.

2008 “To all the Former Cats and Stomps of the Navajo Nation:” Performance, the individual, and cultural poetic traditions. Language in Society. 37(1): 61-89.

2007 Reading William Bittle and Charles Brant: On ethnographic representations of “contemporary” Plains Apache. Plains Anthropologist. 52(203): 301-315.

2007 Lipan Apache Place Names of Augustina Zuazua: Some Structural and Discursive Features. Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 55(2): 103-122.

2006 On Speaking to him (Coyote): The Discourse Functions of the yi-/bi- alternation in some Chiricahua Apache Narratives. Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 25(2): 143-160.

2006 ‘Ałk’id ii Jooldlosh, Jiní: Poetic Devices in Navajo Oral and Written Poetry. Anthropological Linguistics. 48 (3): 233-265.

2006 From Hóyéé to Hajinei: On some implications of feelingful iconicity and orthography in Navajo poetry. Pragmatics. 16(4): 535-549.

2006 Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (with a sideways glance at Navajo). Oral Tradition. 21(2): 295-324.

2006 The Mouse that Sucked: On “Translating” a Navajo Poem. Studies in American Indian Literature. 18(1): 37-49.

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2004 Coyote Poems: Navajo Poetry, Intertextuality, and Language Choice. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 28(4): 69-91.

1999 Lisandro Mendez’s ‘Coyote and Deer’: On Reciprocity, Narrative Structures and Interaction. American Indian Quarterly. 23(1): 1-24.

1999 Sam Kenoi’s Coyote Stories: Rhetoric and Poetics in some Chiricahua Narratives. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 23(1): 137- 163.

1998 ‘One did not say just anything’: Chiricahua war-path language as linguistic ideology. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. 83: 102-106.

Chapters in Professional Books:

2012 John Watchman’s Ma’ii and Skunk. (with Blackhorse Mitchell). In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Art (edited by David Kozak). University of Nebraska Press. 150-172.

2012 Samuel E. Kenoi’s Portraits of White Men. In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Art (edited by David Kozak). University of Nebraska Press. 175-193.

2012 “To Give an Imagination to the Listener:” Replicating Proper Ways of Speaking In and Through Contemporary Navajo Poetry. In Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities. (ed. Paul Kroskrity) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 205-227.

2012 Southern Athapaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology. From the Land of the Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis. (ed. Deni J. Seymour). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 286-302.

2012 Navajo poetry. (with Esther G. Belin). Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press. 923-924.

2009 Amerindian Aesthetics. In Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd Edition. (edited by Stephen Davies, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker and Kathleen Higgins). Malden, MA: Blackwell. 142-145.

5 Proceedings and Working Papers (editorially reviewed)

2011 How a television is like a urinating donkey and other things I learned studying Navajo poetics: Bilingual Navajo, Puns and Ideophony. Proceedings of the First Biennial Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STILLA 2008). (eds. Serafín M. Coronel Molina and John H. McDowell). 35-47.

2011 Losing Control in a Navajo Poem: On the ethnopoetics of an expressive feature in a poem by Rex Lee Jim. (with Blackhorse Mitchell) Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics. (eds. Siri Tuttle and Ogla Lovick). University of Alaska Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 9: 1-14.

2008 [v] and [b] in Lipan Apache: An Ethnohistorical Approach to a Phonological Variation. Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics. University of Alaska Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 7. 143-155.

2008 Navajo Ideophony: Some Comparative Preliminaries. Working Papers in Athabaskan Linguistics. University of Alaska Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 7. 157-177.

2008 “In Navajo we call him little father”/ “In Navajo, we call him ‘shidá’í:’” The emergence and calibration of style by two Navajo poets. Texas Linguistic Forum. 51: 165-173.

2007 Code-Switching in Navajo Orthographic Poetry: On Places, the Mythic, and Mythic Places. Texas Linguistic Forum. 50. http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/proceedings/2006/webster.pdf

2000 The politics of Apache place-names: Or why ‘Dripping Springs’ does not equal ‘Tónoogah.’ Texas Linguistic Forum. 43: 223-232.

1998 Sam Kenoi’s ‘Coyote and the Whitemen’: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua narrative. In Reclaiming Native American Cultures. (Eds. Trefzer, Anette and Murray, Robin). Durant, OK: Southeastern Oklahoma State University. 67-80.

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals:

To appear Review of Lessons from a Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective. Language in Society.

To appear Review of We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. Journal of American Folklore.

6 2012 Review of Living Languages: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. (with Aimee J. Hosemann). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 18: 898-899.

2010 Review of Ritual Communication. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=1070

2009 Review of Plains Apache Ethnobotany. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 33(3): 133-137.

2009 Review of Salish Myths and Legends: One’s Peoples Stories. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 33(1): 180-183.

2008 Review of Being and Place Among the Tlingit. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 32(4): 145-148.

2008 Review of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 32(1): 180-183.

2007 Review of When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 31(4): 193-196.

2007 Review of Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Language in Society. 36(1): 118-121.

2006 Review of Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Electronic Green Journal. Winter 2006. 24.

2006 Review of Comanche Code-Talkers. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 16(2): 302-303.

2002 Review of Being in Being. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 12(2). 263- 264.

1999 Review of Nez Perce Coyote Tales: The Myth Cycle. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 23(4): 216-219.

1997 Review of Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief. American Ethnologist. 24(3): 682-683.

7 Popular and Creative Writing:

2009 Letter to the Editors. American Scientist. 97(4): 268.

2007 Reflections on Navajo Poetry: Translation, Ideophony, and Reckoning. World Literature Today. Sept./Oct. 2007. On-line edition. http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2007September/webster.htm

Other:

2000 Obituary essay on Morris Edward Opler. (with Scott Rushforth). American Anthropologist. 102(2): 328-329.

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Interests and Specialties:

linguistic anthropology ethnopoetics language and emotion language and identity language ideologies/semiotic ideologies language and inequality literacy speech play iconicity Navajo language and culture Southwest Native American ethnography Native American language and culture Native Americans in popular media Southern Athabaskan ethnohistories of communication

Grants Received:

2012 SIU Cope Fund, to promote open access publishing

2010 Jacobs Research Fund, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. “Navajo poets’ language histories.”

2007-08 Faculty Seed Grant, “Navajo Translation Project.” Office of Research Development and Administration (ORDA). Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

8 2007 American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund for Native American Research, “Navajo Lingual Biographies.”

2004 Computer Systems Advisory Committee Grant, Idaho State University

1999 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant

1999 Phillips Fund Grant, American Philosophical

1999 Jacobs Fund Grant, Whatcom Museum

1998 Graduate Anthropology Student Grant, Anthropology Department, University of Texas at Austin

1997 New Mexico State Graduate Research Grant

1996 New Mexico State Graduate Research Grant

Honors and Awards:

2006 Sigma Xi

2005 Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation Award at the University of Texas at Austin by the Anthropology Department.

2004-05 Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University

2000 Bruton Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

1999 Bruton Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

1997 Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin

1997 Highest Honors, New Mexico Academy of Science Graduate Research

1993 Distinction, Purdue University

1992 Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key Honor Society

9 INVITED AND LOCAL PRESENTATIONS

2013 “The Validity of Navajo Is In Its Sounds:” The Poetics of Punning in Contemporary Navajo Aesthetic Traditions. Invited talk as Liberal Arts Community of Scholars invited lecturer at University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN. Feb. 21, 2013.

2013 When Navajo Loses Its (Referential) Meaning: The Paradox of Contemporary Navajo Language Signs. Paper presented at the Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Carbondale, IL. Feb. 14, 2013.

2013 “The Validity of Navajo is in Its Sounds:” On the ethnopoetics of Navajo punning in poetry and verbal art. Invited talk at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Feb. 8, 2013.

2011 From Shibuddy to Nihik’inizdidláád: On the intimacies of grammar in Navajo expressive life and poetry. Invited talk at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics and the Department of English. April 8, 2011.

2011 Eat, Shit, Bulge: On Lacking Control in a Navajo Poem. Paper presented at Finding Bridges Forum, Department of Anthropology, SIUC. Feb. 2, 2011. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association.

2010 “If I were a pony:” On expressive satisfaction and the “voice” of Navajo poets. Invited Keynote talk at Celebrating Navajo Poetry sponsored by Bloomfield High School English Department, Bloomfield High School Nashdoi Club, and the Bisti Writing Project. Bloomfield, NM. Dec. 11, 2010.

2010 “This is not just my voice, but the voice of my ancestors”: Imagining Navajo in and through contemporary Navajo poetry. Invited talk at University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Oct. 1, 2010. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics.

2010 “Navajo English.” Invited talk given at Diné College, Shiprock, NM. July 15, 2010.

2010 “Urinating Donkeys, Abalone Shells, and Disney: On Unintentional Punning and Interlingual Punning Among Navajos.” Paper presented at Linguistics Lecture Series, April 28, 2010. Southern Illinois University.

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2010 “Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics.” Book reading and discussion at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Sponsored by University Bookstore. April 21, 2010.

2009 “Still, She Didn’t See What I Was Trying to Say”: Unexpected languages, intimate grammars, and the dismissing of Navajo English in Navajo poetry. Paper presented at Finding Bridges Forum, Nov. 2, 2009. Southern Illinois University. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association.

2008 Winter Counts, Buffalo Robes, and Literacy Practices. Paper presented at the University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Nov. 12, 2008. Sponsored by the University Museum, Native American Heritage Month, and the Native American Studies Minor.

2007 “Tséyi’ First, Because Navajo Language Was Here Before Contact:” Performing Navajoness in Illinois. Paper presented for Native American Heritage Month, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Nov. 12, 2007. Sponsored by the Native American Student Organization.

2007 “To Give an Imagination to the Listener:” The Neglected Poetics of Navajo Ideophony. Paper presented at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Oct. 3, 2007. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, and the Native American Education and Cultural Center.

2007 “Tséyi’ First, Because Navajo Language Was Here Before Contact:” Performing Navajoness in Illinois. Paper presented at Finding Bridges Forum, Sept. 14, 2007. Southern Illinois University. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association.

2007 Navajo Rap and Rhymes: Navajo hip-hop and the emergence of the “glocal.” Paper presented at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. Sponsored by the John S. and Margaret Redden Fund and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. April 4.

2006 “Haash Deeshłeeł:” Navajo hip-hop and the emergence of the “glocal.” Invited paper at Washington University, St. Louis. Sponsored by the Music Department and Anthropology Department. Oct. 24, St. Louis, MO.

11 2006 When we walk north: poetics, ironies, and discomforts in poetry and talk about “the return.” Invited paper presented at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Linguistics Department. Sept. 25, 2006.

2006 When we walk north: The poetics, ironies, and frustrations of return (or talking about death and return). Paper presented at Finding Bridges Forum, Aug. 30, 2006. Southern Illinois University. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association.

2002 Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork on Navajo Poetry: Issues, Ethics, and Finding a Field Site in an Amorphous Community. Paper presented at a symposium in the Department of Anthropology. University of Massachusetts, Boston.

2001 The poetry of ideology and the ideology of poetry: Tracing translation through Navajo poetry. Paper presented at a Department of Anthropology colloquium University of Massachusetts, Boston.

2001 The Mouse that Sucked: Translating a Navajo Poem. Paper presented to the Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School. McGaffey, NM.

2000 Song of experience or song of innocence: Rex Lee Jim’s “girl in.” Paper presented at a symposium on Navajo Philosophy, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings:

2012 Navajo Fragments: Imagining Navajo ways of speaking in contemporary Navajo literature. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 16, 2012.

2012 The culture in grammar in the Navajo poetry of Rex Lee Jim. Paper presented at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO). Ft. Wayne, IN. Oct. 12, 2012.

2012 Rex Lee Jim’s ‘Mouse that Sucked’: On Iconicity, Interwoven-ness, and Ideophones in contemporary Navajo poetry. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. 7 Jan. 2012.

12 2011 “-x- Marks the Spot: On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Expressive Features, and the Recognition of Voice.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada. 18 Nov. 2011.

2010 “Don’t Talk About It”: Navajo poets, intimate grammars, and the ordeals of language. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. 18 Nov. 2010.

2010 Rex Lee Jim’s ‘The Mouse that Sucked’: On Iconicity, Interwoven-ness, and Ideophony. Paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 15, 2010.

2010 “Oh that’s a Navajo Pun! The (Social) Poetics of Navajo Interlingual Punning.” Paper presented at SALSA XVIII: Speech Play & Verbal Art: A Conference in Honor of Joel Sherzer. Austin, TX. March 26-28, 2010.

2010 “How do I know when my language is no longer English or Navajo?”: Navajo poetics at the boundaries of languages. Paper presented at Native American Literature Symposium. Isleta Pueblo, NM. March 5, 2010,

2009 “Still, She Didn’t See What I Was Trying to Say”: Unexpected languages, intimate grammars, and the dismissing of Navajo English in Navajo poetry. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec. 5, 2009.

2009 Diné Poetry and Diné Poets: Towards a History of Framing Navajo Written Poetry. Paper presented at Navajo Studies Conference, Shiprock, NM. Mar. 13, 2009.

2008 ‘Everything got kinda strange after awhile’: cultural intimacy and the poetics of contemporary Navajo poetry. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. Nov. 21, 2008.

2008 How a television is like a urinating donkey and other things I learned studying Navajo poetics: Bilingual Navajo, Puns and Ideophony. Paper presented at Indigenous Voices: A Symposium on Native and Indigenous Languages. Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN. Nov. 17, 2008.

2008 How a television is like a urinating donkey and other things I learned studying Navajo poetics: On Puns, Bilingual Navajo, and Ideophony. Paper presented at STILLA Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Aug. 14, 2008.

13 2007 “To Give an Imagination to the Listeners:” The Neglected Poetics of Navajo Ideophony. Paper presented at Navajo Studies Conference, Tsaile, AZ, Nov. 1, 2007.

2007 Land Filled With Sounds: Ideophony in Navajo Place-names. Paper presented at the Semiotic Society of America, New Orleans, Oct. 5. Special Session on “Ethnography through the Looking Glass.”

2007 Navajo Ideophony: Some Comparative Preliminaries. Paper presented at the Athabaskan Language Conference, Tsaile, AZ. June 23, 2007.

2007 “In Navajo we call him little father”/ “In Navajo, we call him ‘shidá’í:’” The emergence and calibration of style by two Navajo poets. Paper presented at the Symposium About Language and Society—Austin (SALSA) XV. Austin, TX. April 13, 2007.

2006 When we walk North: The poetics and ironies of displacement. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. Nov. 16, 2006.

2006 From Hóyéé to Hajinei: On the implications of code-switching and orthography in Navajo poetry. Paper presented at the Navajo Studies Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 3, 2006.

2006 Southern Athabaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology. Invited paper presented at Mogollon Conference. Tucson, AZ. Oct. 14, 2006.

2005 Poetry As/In Motion: Reflections on Navajo Poetry. Paper Presented at the American Ethnological Society. San Diego, CA.

1999 The politics of Apache place-names: Or why ‘Dripping Springs’ does not equal ‘Tónoogah’. Paper presented at the Symposium About Language and Society—Austin (SALSA), VII. Austin, TX.

1997 Sam Kenoi’s ‘Coyote and the Whitemen’: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua narrative. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Native American Symposium. Durant, OK.

1997 House Made of Dawn as culture contact. Paper presented at the Western States Communication Society. Monterey, CA.

1992 Navajo Drinking: Working towards a cultural definition of alcoholism. Central States Anthropological Society. Beloit, WI.

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Organizer and Discussant for Sessions:

2013 Discussant for session at Central States Anthropological Society meetings titled: Literacy and Nation: The Role of Literacy in Establishing Community and Identity (Organized by Lia Siewart)

2012 Co-Organizer (with Edward R. Barrett and Katherine Lahti) for session at Linguistic Society of America meetings titled: Ideophones: Sound Symbolism, Grammar, and Cultural Expression

2011 Discussant for session at American Anthropological Association titled: From T-Shirts to Political Speeches: Exploring the Semiotics of Indigenous Language Use and Revitalization (Organized by Jenny Davis)

2011 Co-Organizer (with Paul Kroskrity) for session at American Anthropological Association meetings titled: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice: On the Legacy of Dell Hymes.

2010 Co-Organizer (with Jonathan Hill) for session at American Anthropological Association meetings titled: Ordeals of Language: From Self-Suppression to Expressive Genres

2009 Co-Organizer (with Leighton C. Peterson) for session at American Anthropological Association titled: Indian Languages in Unexpected Places: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Representation, Ideology, and Popular Cultures in Native North America

2008 Co-Organizer (with Sean O’Neill) for session at American Anthropological Association titled: The interplay of the senses: Reintegrating Poetics into linguistic ideology, linguistic relativity, and identity

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2012 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies, Navajo poetry, and theories of translation (renewal of previous permit). (Summer)

2011 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies, Navajo poetry, and theories of translation (renewal of previous permit). (Summer)

15 2010 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies, Navajo poetry, and theories of translation. Funded by Southern Illinois University and Jacobs Fund (renewal of previous permit). (Summer)

2009 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies, Navajo poetry, and theories of translation. Funded by Southern Illinois University (renewal of previous permit). (Summer)

2008 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies and theories of translation. Funded by Southern Illinois University. (Navajo Nation permit no. C0708b-E). (Summer)

2007 Linguistic anthropological field work on the Navajo Nation concerning Navajo language biographies and theories of translation. Funded by American Philosophical Society and Southern Illinois University. (Navajo Nation permit no. C0708-E). (Summer)

2000- Linguistic anthropological research on the Navajo Reservation 2001 concerning Navajo Poetry (permit no. C0018-E).

1999- Employed by The Mescalero Apache Tribe in conjunction with the 2000 Mescalero Apache Sociolinguistic Survey. Helped design, administer, and collate survey.

1998-99 Research Assistant, Indian Health Service Grant. Mescalero Apache Medical Dictionary. Conducted standard linguistic elicitation sessions with consultants, helped design and arrange format of dictionary on the LinguaLinks linguistic program.

1997-98 Research Assistant, Department of Management, Business School, University of Texas at Austin. Conducted closed interviews with doctors, nurses, and administrators at M.D. Anderson. Wrote final report submitted to M.D. Anderson on attitudes concerning the changing nature of health care.

1996 Research Assistant, New Mexico State University, American Indian Education Survey. Helped design, conduct and analyze survey.

16 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Interests and Specialties:

linguistic anthropology ethnopoetics Native American verbal art/speech play Southwest Native American ethnography Native American language and culture linguistic field methods historical linguistics phonology language ideologies and colonialism language and affect

Courses taught:

Contemporary Issues among Native Peoples (Undergraduate) Descriptive Phonetics and Phonology (Graduate) Historical Linguistics (Undergraduate/Graduate) Indigenous Languages of North America (Undergraduate/Graduate) Introduction to Anthropology (Undergraduate) Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (Undergraduate) Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (Graduate) Language and Culture (Graduate) Language and Culture (Undergraduate) Language Contact (Undergraduate/Graduate) Linguistic Field Methods (Graduate) Native American Verbal Art: Theory and Method (Undergraduate/Graduate) Native American Language and Culture (Undergraduate/Graduate) Native Peoples of North America (Undergraduate) Native Peoples of the Southwest (Undergraduate/Graduate) Nature of Human Language (Undergraduate) The Structure of Human Languages (Undergraduate)

Seminar: Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Colonialism (Graduate) Seminar: Language is/as/through/and Emotion (Graduate) Seminar: Literacy and Literacies (Graduate)

Names of Students who have completed Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations under Direction:

Aslihan Akkaya (Ph.D.; Janet M. Fuller co-chair) Devotion and Friendship Through Facebook: An Ethnographic Approach to

17 Language, Community, and Identity Performances of Young Turkish-American Women. 2012.

Laura Warren (MA; Jonathan Hill co-chair) Central Illinois Powwow Community: A Unique Path of Creation, Cultivation, and Connection to American Indian Culture, Identities, and Community. 2011.

Number of Master’s and Ph.D. Committees on which served:

Ph.D. Completed: 6 (including 1 outside of SIUC) MA Completed: 15 (including 2 outside Anthropology)

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

Department Committees:

2013 Chair, Hiring Committee for NTT Linguistic Anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2012 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology (Nov. 19-Dec. 14)

2010-13 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology.

2009-13 Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology.

2009 Hiring Committee for Forensic Anthropologist at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2006-09 Member visiting speaker committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2006 Ad-hoc summer graduate committee in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2005-06 Undergraduate Advising Committee, Southern Illinois University

2005 Hiring Committee for Practice Anthropologist at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

College and University Committees and Councils:

2010-13 Faculty advisory committee, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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2008-13 Faculty advisory committee, Native American Studies Minor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2006-13 Native American Heritage Month planning committee at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2006 Indigenous Day planning committee, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2005-07 Native American Studies minor planning committee at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Other:

2009 Reader/Judge, Andrew P. Smith Award, annual essay prize from Association of English Graduate Instructors and Students, Department of English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2008 Co-founder of Native American Studies Minor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Membership in Professional Associations:

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) The Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America (SSILA) Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) American Folklore Society (AFS) International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Professional Association Service:

2011 Reader for Sapir Prize for Graduate Student Paper, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Evaluation of Manuscripts for Journals and Book Publishers and of Grant Proposals for Agencies

19 Journals:

American Anthropologist Journal of Linguistic Anthropology International Journal of American Linguistics American Ethnologist Text & Talk Ethnohistory American Indian Culture and Research Journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language Signs and Society Southwest Journal of Linguistics Journal of Pragmatics MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Oral Tradition Sibirica Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

Books:

University of New Mexico Press

Grant Proposals:

National Science Foundation: Linguistics: Language Documentation The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

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