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1 Curriculum Vitae Joana Worth Jansen Northwest Indian Language Curriculum Vitae Joana Worth Jansen Northwest Indian Language Institute Email: [email protected] University of Oregon Phone: 541-346-0730 1629 Moss Street Fax: 541-346-6086 Eugene, Oregon 97403 U.S.A. EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., Linguistics, 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 / Sahaptin. 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 Second Language Studies, American English 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 Alaska 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 California 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 Nez Perce Tribe Language Program, Lapwai ID (with Judith Fernandes). 2011 Facilitator, strategic planner for Karuk Language Restoration Committee and Karuk Tribal Language Program (with Zalmai Zahir and Regan Anderson). Prepared Strategic Plan for Karuk Language Restoration. 2008-2011 Linguistic consultant and teacher trainer for the Yakama 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 Sahaptin language course, Heritage University, Toppenish Washington. 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. Endangered Language 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 Morphology. 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. Karuk Tribe 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. Language Death, 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: Dictionaries, 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
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