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Curriculum Vitae Joana Worth Jansen

Northwest Indian Language Institute Email: [email protected] University of Phone: 541-346-0730 1629 Moss Street Fax: 541-346-6086 Eugene, Oregon 97403 U.S.A.

EDUCATION

2010 Ph.D., , University of Oregon, Eugene 2004 M.A., Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene 1991 B.A., Philosophy, Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida

Title of M.A. Thesis: Complementation Strategies in Assamese with Particular Consideration of the Historical Sources and Development of the Assamese Infinitive. Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: A Grammar of Yakima Ichishkíin / .

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2014-present Research Associate and Associate Director of Project Development and Coordination, Northwest Indian Language Institute, University of Oregon. 2014-present Summer Institute Coordinator, Northwest Indian Language Institute, University of Oregon. 2010-2014 Post-doctoral Researcher, Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax Project, University of Oregon. 2010-2014 Research Associate, Project Coordinator and Instructor, Northwest Indian Language Institute, University of Oregon. 2006-2010 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Northwest Indian Language Institute and World Language Academy, University of Oregon. 2003-2010 Instructor and Coordinator, Northwest Indian Language Institute Summer Institute, University of Oregon. 2001-2005 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Applied Studies, Institute and Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2015 Teacher trainer: Benchmarks and assessment training/workshop for teachers of Iñupiaq and Yup’ik at the Native Heritage Center, Anchorage AK (with Janne Underriner).

1 2014-present Teacher trainer and linguistic consultant for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs on Administration for Native Americans (ANA) project, Creating Ichishkíin Speakers. 2014 Facilitator and strategic planner for board retreat of the Advocates for Indigenous Language Survival in Berkeley CA (with Zalmai Zahir and Regan Anderson). Prepared written report. 2011-2014 Linguist, language teacher, curriculum and program developer and project coordinator to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Takelma Language Restoration Project. 2012, 2014 Linguist participant at the Breath of Life Language Restoration Workshop for California Indians, Berkeley CA. 2011-2014 Teacher trainer, curriculum development trainer and project consultant for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on ANA project, Chahta Anno̱pa Isht A̱ya. 2013 Online teacher training on Talking cards: Moving from words to simple sentences for teachers and staff from the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. 2011 Prepared and presented Nimiipuu Language Teaching and Family Learning Workshop for the Tribe Language Program, Lapwai ID (with Judith Fernandes). 2011 Facilitator, strategic planner for Language Restoration Committee and Karuk Tribal Language Program (with Zalmai Zahir and Regan Anderson). Prepared Strategic Plan for Restoration. 2008-2011 Linguistic consultant and teacher trainer for the Nation Language Program on ANA project, Ichishkíin Sinwit. 2007-2008 Held working group meetings with 2 Yakama language teachers and Yakama Nation Language Program Manager to develop guidelines for pedagogical grammars. 2006-2008 NW Language Benchmark consultant, teacher trainer, linguist to the Toppenish School District Palátisha Miyánashma Project. 2007 Guest instructor at course, Heritage University, Toppenish . 2006 NW Language Benchmark consultant for Ichishkíin language benchmarks working group with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Language Program.

RESEARCH SUPPORT, GRANTS, CONTRACTS

As PI, co-PI, awardee: 2015 Documenting Warm Springs (tqn) Ichishkíin. NSF DEL Grant #BCS-1500674. (PI, co-PIs Valerie Switzler, CTWS and Nariyo Kono, PSU). 2015 Benchmarks and Assessment Training. Alaska Native Heritage Center. 2011 Ichishkíin/Sahaptin (yak): Language Documentation of Natural and Cultural Resources. NSF DEL Grant #BCS-1064459. (co-PI at UO). 2011 Takelma Language Restoration Project. Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. (co-PI).

2 2008 Yakima Places, Legends and Narratives. Margaret Wiese Graduate Research Award, UO. 2007 Pedagogical Grammar Workgroup. UO Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC) Graduate Summer Research Award. 2005 Yakima Language Documentation and Grammar. Documentation Programme, Individual Graduate Studentship Award. 2005 Risa Palm Graduate Fellowship. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon. 2004 Towards a Grammar of Yakima Sahaptin with Initial Focus on Verb Stem . Jacobs Research Fund, Whatcom Museum Society.

As key personnel or named in proposal: 2014 Creating Ichishkíin Speakers. Administration for Native Americans, for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. 2012 Chahta Anno̱ pa Isht A̱ ya. Administration for Native Americans, for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. 2012 Ichishkíin Culture and Language as Protective Factors: A Foundation of Wellness. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2011 Ichishkíin Language and Culture as Protective Factors. Native American Center for Excellence. 2011 Strategic Planning Facilitation. Language Program. 2009 Sahaptian and the Evolution of Hierarchical Systems. NSF Grant #BCS-0936684, PI Spike Gildea. Funded as part of a EuroBABEL (European Science Foundation) Collaborative Research Project: Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax (RHIM). 2008 Ichishkíin Sinwit Project.Administration for Native Americans, for the Yakama Nation.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volumes To appear. Diachrony of Hierarchical Systems. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Co-edited with Spike Gildea. 2013. Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Co- edited with Tim Thornes, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Erik Andvik.

Refereed articles and chapters in edited volumes To appear. (with Spike Gildea). The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptin. Diachrony of Hierarchical Systems, edited by Joana Jansen & Spike Gildea. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. To appear. (with Eva van Lier and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich). Referential and lexical factors in ditransitive alignment variation. Special issue of Linguistics. 2013. (with Janne Underriner and Roger Jacob). Revitalizing languages though place-based language curriculum: Identity through learning. , Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization, edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei- Doval, Kathleen Wheatley, 221–242. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

3 2013. (with Virginia Beavert). Agent case marking in Sahaptian. Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation, edited by Tim Thornes, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Joana Jansen and Erik Andvik, 131-154. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2012. Ditransitive alignment in Yakima Sahaptin. Linguistic Discovery 10:37-54. 2011. (with Virginia Beavert). Yakima Sahaptin bipartite verb stems. International Journal of American Linguistics 77:121-49. 2010. (with Virginia Beavert). Combining the goals of language documentation and language teaching. Building Communities Making Connections, edited by Susana Rivera-Mills and Juan Castillo, 62-80. Cambridge Publishing. 2005. (with Sally Hood Cisar). Second language teachers from six states unite. Professional Development in Language Education Series, Volume Four: Communities of Supportive Professionals, edited by Tim Murphey and Kazuyoshi Sato, 91-103. Alexandria, Virginia: TESOL.

Conference Presentations 2015. (with Rose Miller). Ichishkíin Culture and Language as Protective Factors. Presented at the National Indian Education Conference, Portland OR, October 15. 2015. (with Andrew Garret). Co-organizer of special session: , text editions, and corpora: Ensuring value for multiple stakeholders. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America/ Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland, Oregon, January 10. 2014. Decolonizing Pedagogies II: Language and Revitalization. Invited panel member, Presented at the Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization through Indigenous Vision and Struggle Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 9. 2014. LSA at AAAL: Supporting Maintenance and Revitalization of North American Indigenous Languages: Collaborations between Communities, Applied and Theoretical Linguists. Invited panel member. Presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting, Portland OR, March 24. 2014. (with Janne Underriner). Native Languages, Policy, Teaching, Learning in the Pacific Northwest: The Northwest Indian Language Institute. Invited presenter at Ka Haka ‘Ula O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at UHH Hilo HI, January 23. 2014. (with Janne Underriner and Judith Fernandes). First Languages of Oregon and Chinuk Wawa. Invited presenter at Ka Haka ‘Ula O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at UHH Hilo HI, January 22. 2014. (with Janne Underriner). Can Do Statements. Presented at the 21st Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, University of Hilo HI, January 18. 2014. Looking to neighbors for the source of the Ichishkíin inverse voice. Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Minneapolis MN, January 3. 2012. Kinterms and kinship grammar in the Sahaptian Family. Presented at the EuroBABEL Final Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, August 25. 2012. Methodology and best practices for community engagement and reciprocity of research. Invited panel participant. Presented at the EuroBABEL Final Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, August 25.

4 2012. The effect of animacy on inverse constructions in Sahaptin. Presented at Symposium 894, The effects of animacy hierarchies in the native languages of the Americas, 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, July 17. 2012. (with Virginia Beavert). Plurality and hierarchical alignment in Northwest Sahaptin. Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Portland OR, January 7. 2011. Linguistic analysis and the speech community: Referential hierarchies research and . Presented at the 26th Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation and Revitalization, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, October 21. 2011. (with Janne Underriner and Roger Jacob). Revitalizing languages through place- and culture-based language curriculum. Presented at the 26th Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation and Revitalization, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, October 21. 2011. Kinship terminology in Yakima Ichishkíin. Presented at the EuroBABEL Cross CRP- Workshop, Kinship and numeral systems from cross-linguistic and cross-modal perspectives, University of Central Lancashire International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, Preston, UK, September 16. 2011. The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian. Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain, September 9. 2011. Plurality and inverse marking in 3>3 scenarios in Northwest Sahaptin. Presented at the EuroBABEL Cross CRP-Workshop, Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments, University of Leipzig, August, 28. 2009. The grammatical coding of the inverse category in Sahaptin. Poster presented at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of California, Berkeley, July 25. 2009. (with Virginia Beavert and Roger Jacob). Ichishkíin 101. Presented at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, May 1. 2008. (with Virginia Beavert). Sahaptin Language Revitalization: Yakama Sahaptin 101. Presented at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting, Oregon State University, Corvallis, October 18. 2008. Preparing a Pedagogical Grammar: Obviative Ergative Doesn’t Work for Language Teachers. Presented at the Center on Diversity and Community’s 6th Annual Graduate Research Conference, University of Oregon. 2008. (with Rose Miller). Pedagogical Grammar Development for Language Learning and Teaching. Presented at the Gathering Tools to Live our Language Conference, Arcata, California. 2008. (with Christopher Doty). Storage Solutions for Data: Safeguarding your data. Presented at the Gathering Tools to Live our Language Conference, Arcata, California. 2008. (with Virginia Beavert). Bipartite causative constructions in Yakima Sahaptin. Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. 2007. (with Virginia Beavert). Language documentation and language teaching: Connecting goals and products. Presented at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of North America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

5 2007. Language Documentation. Invited presenter at Pshwayii Teachers’ Conference, sponsored by the Oregon Department of Education and the Native Language Preservation and Instruction Partnership, Warm Springs, Oregon. 2006. (with Virginia Beavert). Combining the goals of language documentation and language teaching. Presented at the Plateau Conference, Washington State University, Pullman. 2005. Development of a multi-language SLA database. Poster presented at the 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2005. (with Virginia Beavert, Jesse Blackburn Morrow, Judith Fernandes, and Janne Underriner). Talking cards: Moving from words to simple sentences. Presented at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, Victoria, British Columbia. 2005. Bipartite verb stems in Yakima Sahaptin. Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California in Santa Barbara. 2004. (with Sally Hood Cisar). The Communities Goal and lifelong language learning: One district’s programs. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois.

SERVICE

Professional 2012-present: Member, LSA’s Committee for Endangered Language Preservation (CELP) 2104 Authored white paper Benefits of Indigenous Language Learning for LSA, CELP, US Senate members (with Janne Underriner and Lindsay Marean) 2010 Workshop coordinator and presenter at InField, University of Oregon

Proposal review for National Science Foundation, Endangered Language Documentation Programme Manuscript review for International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Language Contact

University 2013-present NILI Leadership Committee 2013-present GRF hiring committee member 2013-14 Instructor at Bridge of the Gods Summer Academy (UO/LCC program for Native American High School students) LTS Project Committees: 2015 Regan Anderson, Reclaiming Home Domains in a Yakima Ichishkíin Language Classroom 2014 Yoko Hasegawa, Connecting the Dots: A Teaching Portfolio for Adult Heritage Learners of Japanese in Hawaiʻi Support to students working on NW languages for Honors College theses: 2015 Stephanie Evers, Argument Marking Morphology and Verb Stem Selection in Takelma 2016 Brittany Parham, Stress and Pitch in Warm Springs Ichishkíin (provisional title)

6 Community 2005-06, 2013-present Coordinator of Pawyak'ukt Ichishkíin Sapsikw'ałáma, Sahaptian Language Conferences for language teachers and learners, Heritage University, Toppenish WA 2008-present Unpaid consultant, linguist and curriculum specialist for Yakama Nation Language Program and instructors of Ichishkíin language, providing assistance with linguistics, curriculum and materials development, use of technology, grant writing 2014-present Member, Indigenous Language Committee, Oregon Department of Education 2010 Contributor to Confluence Project, Sacagawea State Park (WA) Story Circles (with Virginia Beavert) 2009, 2015 Transcription, translation and liner note assistance to Northwest Heritage Resources, WA for production of audio cds: Legends of the Sahaptin-Speaking Peoples, volumes 1&2.

TEACHING: UO: World Language Academy Ichishkíin/Sahaptin Language 100 and 200 levels; American English Institute (ESL) Oral Skills, Grammar; NILI Summer Institute, Introduction to Linguistics, Intermediate Linguistics, Ichishkíin Linguistics, Teaching Methods.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Linguistic Society of America, Association for Linguistic Typology, Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, National Indian Education Association

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