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Dwyer CV / September 2019 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8806-4409 Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2012–present. Courtesy affiliation in Linguistics; Core Faculty member of two Title VI Centers for East Asian Studies, and for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas, 2003–present. Co-Founder & Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2010–2017. Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, January–June 2013. Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2008–2012. Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2001–2008. Humboldt Scholar (postdoctoral) and Lecturer in Turkology, Seminar für Orientkunde, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1997–2001. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics and Literatures, 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 (slightly rusty) French; native speaker of Am. English. High intermediate competence in Japanese and NW Chinese, Salar, and Kyrgyz. Reading competence in Classical Chinese, Manchu, pre-13th c. Turkic, some Mongolian and Russian. Learning Monguor, Wutun, and Baonan. RESEARCH INTERESTS Language contact and variation (areal processes, typology, creolization, discourse and ideologies) Digital Humanities, corpora, archiving, cyberinfrastructure: Methods, tools, cultural practices and standards for analyzing data and representing knowledge; XML; spatial analysis, digital editions Research and archiving methods, open access, data ethics China; Chinese Inner Asia (especially Xinjiang and Qinghai); the CIS; Transeurasian interactions Language endangerment and revitalization; language technologies Sinitic, Turkic, and Mongolic languages Language and cultural ideology and performance, narratology and ethnopoetics Correlates of climate change and cultural/linguistic change SPONSORED EXTERNAL RESEARCH (all as sole P.I. unless otherwise indicated) 1. Dissertation Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences CSCPR China (now ACLS/NAS/SSRC American Research in the Humanities in China), 1991–1992. 2. Dissertation Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Training Grant (China), 1991–1992 (+1993). 3. Dissertation Fellowship, The Salar Language of China, NEH (FD 21654-94), 1994–1995. 1 Dwyer CV / September 2019 4. P.I. (100%), The Salar Spoken Text Project, Salar-English Dictionary Project, A.v.Humboldt Foundation, 1997–1998, 1999 5. P.I. (100%) Salar-English Dictionary Project, UNESCO/CIPSH, Dictionary Society of North America, 1997–2000. 6. P.I. (100%), The Documentation of Salar and Monguor [Volkswagen Foundation Documentation of Endangered Languages Pilot, Interim, and Main project grants], 2000–2008. 7. Research Fellowship, Interactive Taklamakan: A Multimedia Database of Uyghur Dialects [ACLS International and Area Studies], 2002–2003. 8. Research Fellowship, Language Contact and Variation: A Discourse-based Grammar of Monguor [NEH- NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program (FA 52154-05)], 2005–2006. 9. P.I. (100%), Workshop: Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics. Michigan State University, June 22–23, 2006. [NSF-CISE, NSF-Linguistics: NSF-BCS 0624048], 2006 (+ Utilika Foundation). 10. Research collaborator, Language and Location: A Multimodal Annotation Project (LL-MAP). P.I.s: Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry, 2006–2008. NSF-Linguistics subcontract. 11. P.I. (50%, 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. 12. Research collaborator, INTEROP: Lexicon enhancement via GOLD (LEGO). P.I.s: Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry, 2008–2010. NSF subcontract. 13. P.I. (100%) Co-Lang: Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation Training, NSF-BCS 1065469 (2011–2013). Summer school. Website: https://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012 14. P.I., Supplemental NSF award to CoLang 2012 (Aug 2012): Documenting Northern Cheyenne Signs. For Melanie McKay-Cody 15. P.I. (100%) Interactive Inner Asia: documenting an endangered language contact area. NSF-BCS 1065524 (2011–2015). Project website: https://iaia.ittc.ku.edu 16. P.I., NSF-REG 1439673 for KU PhD Student B.J. Gray, “Southwestern Kansan Corn Farmers’ Cultural Models of Groundwater and its Use,” supplement to Interactive Inner Asia. 17. P.I. (100%) Light verbs in Uyghur. NSF-BCS 1053152 (2011–2015). Project website: https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu 18. Fellowship (book project), 2014. Camel Spring: Narratives and Metanarratives of the Silk Road. NEH. 19. Fellowship (book project). 2014 (taken 2015–2016). Chinese Inner Asia as a Cultural Convergence Zone. J.S. Guggenheim Foundation. 20. P.I. (50% with co-I Tanja Schultz). 2015–2016. Automated Speech Recognition for Uyghur. NSF-IIS http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519164 21. P.I. (70% with co-I C.M. Sperberg-McQueen) Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. Luce Foundation. 2015–2017. 22. P.I. (60%, with co-I Jeff Rydberg-Cox and co-I Sandra Kuebler) Analyzing Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online. Luce Foundation. 2018–2020. 23. Fellowship (Director of Associated Studies/Directeur d’Etudes Associes), Dolan Adaptation and Resistance: Language, Music, and Digital Humanities. Fondation Maison Sciences de l'homme, Paris, Oct-Nov 2018. FORMALIZED EXTERNAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS Open Society Institute Academic Fellow (Nonresident Scholar), American U of Central Asia Anthropology Department, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2006–2007. 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 (2010–2013). 2 Dwyer CV / September 2019 Joint Researcher: Comparative Study on the Languages of the North [Asia] from Typological Perspective at the Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo. Project URL and documents online: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/jrp/jrp166 (2010-2013). Joint project: The teaching of Amazigh culture, with Dr. Hassan Zaid and Prof. Yamina El-Kirat, 2014– 2015, Universite Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. RESEARCH PRIZES AND AWARDS John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2014, taken in 2015-2016) Balfour Jeffreys Career Research Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Kansas, 2009. Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society inductee, 2017. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductee, 2008. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bursary Award (Linguistic Corpora), 1997. IN-SITU (“FIELD”) RESEARCH Family: [ISO 639 Lg. code] (Date, Location: Topic) Sinitic [zhx]: 1985–1986 (Taipei, Taiwan: comparative Sinitic) Minnan [nan] (1987; 1988 Seattle, USA: Hainan Min phonology) Zhongyuan Mandarin [zgyu] (1987–1988 Seattle, USA: Hezhou phonology; 1991–1993 Urumchi, China: Nanjiang Mandarin; 1993 Amdo Tibet [Xunhua county, Qinghai], China: comparative syntax; June 2000 Amdo [Gannan]: hua’er song festivals & religious practice; ) Wutun [wuh] (6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 Amdo [Tongren, Qinghai]: language description and oral history; Jun-Jul 2004 : Wutun legends; March 2015: Wutun pre-initials) Bodic: Amdo Tibetan [adx] (June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gannan]: love songs (layi)) Choni Tibetan [cda] (June 2000 Amdo Tibet [Gannan]: Turkic [trk]: Modern Uyghur [uig] (1991–1993 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang]: language study; 7.97, 10.98, 2.99, 7.00 dialectology and discourse; May 2005 Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., USA: Uyghur Language purism; June 2010 Eugene, Oregon: Frog Stories; July 2015 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang]: Uyghur Automated Speech Recognition) Kazakh [kaz] (1991–1993 Chinese Turkestan: language study; 1993.2 Amdo Tibet [Gansu]: dialogic love songs and oral history) Kyrgyz [kir] (Aug 2004 Naryn, Kochkor, Issyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz legends; May 2008 Jalalabad & Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Language policy and language attitudes; July 2009 Issyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan: Blessings and curses in Kyrgyz) Salar [slr] (1992–93, 8.1997, 8.98, 1.99, 7.00 Amdo [Xunhua & Hualong, Qinghai], China: language & history; Oct 2006 Chinese Turkestan [Xinjiang], China: Salar architecture & archaeology; Aug 2011 comparative lexicography and grammar) 3 Dwyer CV / September 2019 Mongolic [xgn] : SE Monguor [mjg] (Mangghuer) (July 2000 Amdo [Minhe, Qinghai]: dialogic love songs; 6- 7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 history and diffusion; Jan-Feb 2003 grammatical description; 7-8.2005, 2- 5.2006 Lawrence, KS: grammatical description; 7-8.2006 healing practices) N Monguor [mjg] (Mongghul) (6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02 Amdo [Huzhu, Qinghai]: history and diffusion; Jan 2005 morphology) W Bonan [peh] ( 6-7.2001, 6-7.02, 11.02, 01-02.2003; 7-8.2005 grammatical description and oral history Indo-European [ine]: Plautdietsch [pdt] , Palatinate German [pfl] (Mar-May 2005 Ellis Co., Douglas Co., Kansas, USA: dialectology) REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS 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 : http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/PS015.pdf 2. Dwyer, Arienne M.
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