Christopher Cox - Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta

Christopher Cox
Department of Linguistics
2-40 Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7
Canada

christopher.cox at ualberta.ca
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cdcox/
Tel: (780) 492-3434
Fax: (780) 492-0806

Education

2013: Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Alberta (expected Fall 2013); Thesis: Onse Sproak (Our Language): Corpus-based, community-partnered documentation of Mennonite Plautdietsch (Supervisor: John Newman)
2008: Master of Science in Linguistics, University of Alberta; Thesis: Verbal complementation in Mennonite Plautdietsch: a corpus-based, constructional approach (Supervisor: John Newman); Additional coursework in language documentation and phonetics at University of California, Santa Barbara (Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, Summer 2008); Additional coursework in language documentation and computational linguistics at Stanford University (Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Summer 2007)
2006: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (High Honours), University of Saskatchewan; Additional coursework in mobile computing, database design, and German language studies at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany, 2003-2004)
2005: Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (with Great Distinction), University of Saskatchewan; Most distinguished graduate in linguistics

Honours and Awards

2013: Profiling Alberta's Graduate Students Award, University of Alberta
2012-2013: Trudeau Foundation Thesis Scholarship, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
2012-2013: University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta
2009-2012: Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation; Most prestigious Canadian doctoral scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; first recipient in linguistics.
2008-2012: President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction, University of Alberta
2008-2011: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2010: WAGS/UMI Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, Western Association of Graduate Schools, University Microfilms International; Most distinguished Master's thesis in all disciplines across 140 universities in North America
2008-2009: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Killam Trusts, University of Alberta; Most prestigious graduate award administered by the University of Alberta
2008: Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Graduate Prize, Killam Trusts, University of Alberta; Awarded to the four most outstanding Killam Memorial Scholarship recipients; received as the top doctoral student in the social sciences at the University of Alberta
2008: Alberta Advanced Education and Technology Graduate Student Scholarship, Province of Alberta
2007: Ivy A. Thomson and William A. Thomson Graduate Scholarship, University of Alberta
2007: Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (Master's) (declined), University of Alberta, Province of Alberta
2007: Margaret W. Reynolds Linguistic Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America
2006: Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, University of Alberta
2006: SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2006: Bhupinder Kaur Basran Memorial Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan
2006: University Honours Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan
2005, 2006: Dean's List, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan
2005: Most Distinguished Graduate in Linguistics, University of Saskatchewan
2005: Undergraduate Research Assistantship (declined), Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network
2002, 2003: NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2002, 2003, 2005: German Book Prize, University of Saskatchewan
2002: University of Saskatchewan Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan

Grants

2012: “Tsuut'ina Corpus Construction: Methods and Evaluation”; Jacobs Research Funds, Whatcom Museum (September 2012 — February 2013); Collaboration with Tsuut'ina-speaking Elders to explore methods for rapidly creating annotated bilingual collections of digital language materials (with Doris Roan and Singingwind Littlestar-Roan)
2011: “Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing and Relationship.“; SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada (with Andrée Boisselle, Julia Christensen, and Lisa Szabo-Junes; June 18-20, 2012); Three-day, 30-participant workshop on storytelling in research as part of sharing knowledge and developing relationships in Indigenous and non-Indigenous traditions, held in coordination with Yellowknives Dene First Nations in Dettah, NWT
2009: “Tsuut'ina Digitization Project”; Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute, with Bruce Starlight and Benjamin V. Tucker (May — July 2009); Trained research assistants from the Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute and the University of Alberta in current best practices for digitizing and cataloguing historical spoken language recordings; Coordinated the production of 200+ hours of archival-quality digital audio and standardized metadata from 260+ cassette tapes

Presentations

Peer-reviewed presentations

2013: “How areal are areals? Spatial reference, prototypes, and extension in Dene.” Poster presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2013, Edmonton, Alberta, June 23-28, 2013.
2013: “Reclaiming access: language documentation methodologies in Canadian Indigenous language reclamation.” Poster presented at a special session of the Canadian Linguistics Association on “Reclaiming Canada’s Indigenous Languages,” Victoria, British Columbia, June 3, 2013.
2013: “An investigation of the three tone system in Tsuut'ina (Dene)” (with Joyce McDonough and Jared O'Loughlin). Poster presented at the ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics. Montreal, Quebec, June 2-7, 2013.
2013: “Measuring linguistic distance in Athapaskan” (with Conor Snoek). Paper given at the 39th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 39), Berkeley, California, February 16-17, 2013.
2011: “Structuring stories: personal and traditional narrative styles in Tsuut'ina.” Paper given at the Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference 2011, Whitehorse, Yukon, June 27-29, 2011.
2011: “The grammaticalization of Dene demonstratives: taking a second look at some 'grey wolf' particles in Dene texts” (with Chad Thompson and Sally Rice). Paper given at the Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference 2011, Whitehorse, Yukon, June 27-29, 2011.
2011: “Participant referencing and event structuring through semi-cognate deixis markers in several Northern Dene (Athapaskan) languages” (with Sally Rice). Paper given at the Fourth International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo), Lyon, France, May 24-27, 2011.
2011: “Looking beyond polysynthesis: post-predicative enclitics in Tsuut'ina.” Paper given at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 2011, Santa Barbara, California, April 15-16, 2011.
2011: “The ecology of documentary linguistic software development.” Paper given at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 11-13, 2011.
2010: “Probable morphologies, probable lexicons: evaluating morphological analyses and lexical representations of Tsuut'ina.” Paper given at the High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 4-6, 2010.
2010: “Verb theme and variations? Inflectional classes and thematic representations of the Tsuut'ina verbal lexicon.” Paper given at the Athabascan (Dene) Languages Conference 2010, Eugene, Oregon, June 26-27, 2010.
2010: “Collaborative digitization of historical language materials” (with Benjamin V. Tucker). Paper given at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 9-10, 2010.
2009: “Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration.” Paper presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2009, Edmonton, Alberta, October 9-11, 2009.
2009: “Quantitative perspectives on syntactic variation: investigating verbal complementation in a corpus of Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Poster presented at Grammatik und Korpora 3, Mannheim, Germany, September 22-24, 2009.
2009: “Understanding variation in Mennonite Plautdietsch verbal complementation: a quantitative approach.” Paper given at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) 15, Banff, Alberta, April 30-May 3, 2009.
2009: “Linguistic training in an endangered language community: the University of Alberta's Community Language Certificate program and the Tsuu T'ina Nation” (with Sally Rice, Benjamin V. Tucker, Bruce Starlight, and Gary Donovan). Paper given at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 27-29, 2009.
2009: “Software demonstration: CuPED (Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents” (with Andrea L. Berez). Paper given at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 14, 2009.
2009: “Introducing CuPED (Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents).” Poster presented at the Humanities Computing Graduate Conference 2009, Edmonton, Alberta, February 13, 2009.
2008: “Balancing fidelity and functionality: parallel text representations in a corpus of Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Paper given at the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis 2008, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 17, 2008.
2008: “Probabilistic tagging of a corpus of Mennonite Low German: a case study using Qtag.” Paper given at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2008, Provo, Utah, March 14, 2008.

Non-peer-reviewed presentations

2013: “Dialectometric approaches to Dene language classification” (with Conor Snoek). Paper given at the Dene Languages Conference 2013, Tsuu T’ina Nation, June 12-14, 2013.
2013: “Perspectives on teaching and learning Indigenous languages“ (with Bruce Starlight). Invited keynote presentation given at the "Teaching Ameri-Indian Languages Conference", Tsuu T'ina Nation, February 15-17, 2013.
2012: “Quantitative methods and linguistic variation in Saskatchewan Valley Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Paper presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics 2012, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, November 3, 2012.
2012: “An introduction to Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Invited presentation given to the Saskatchewan Low German Committee, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, February 15, 2012.
2011: “Canadian citizenship and linguistic diversity.” Invited presentation given at the Trudeau Foundation Scholars' Workshop “Citizenship From Coast to Coast to Coast: Crossing Canada: A National Dialogue,” Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 17, 2011.
2011: “An introduction to Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Invited presentation given to the Saskatchewan Low German Committee, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 26, 2011.
2011: “The resilient word: linguistic preservation and innovation among the Old Colony Mennonites in Latin America.” Invited presentation given at the “Anti- Modern Pathways: 'Horse And Buggy' Mennonites in Canada, Belize and Latin America” conference, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 22, 2011.
2011: “The grammaticalization of Dene demonstratives” (with Sally Rice). Presentation given at the Cognitive and Usage-Based Approaches to Language workshop, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, October 6, 2011.
2009: “'De aulascheenste Sproak': Mennonite Plautdietsch and Mennonite history.” Invited presentation given to the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 30, 2009.
2008: “Three languages, one community: religious code-switching among the Bergthaler Mennonites.” Paper presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics 2008, Banff, Alberta, October 25, 2008.
2008: “Constructing a corpus of Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Invited presentation for the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 19, 2008.
2008: “Mennonite Low German: language and history.” Invited presentation given to the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan, Osler, Saskatchewan, March 8, 2008.
2007: “Periphrastic do-constructions in Low German: a corpus-based analysis.” Paper presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics 2007, Banff, Alberta, October 20, 2007.
2006: “Diachronic Slavic influence in the lexicon of Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Paper presented at the APALA 2006 Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January 27-29, 2006.
2003: “Comtella: Motivating Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Networks.” Poster presented at the NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantship Reception, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 21, 2003.

Guest lectures

2013: “Sociolinguistics and Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Guest lecture given for LING 102 ("Introduction to Linguistics II"; instructor: Olivia N. Sammons), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 21, 2013.
2012: “Introducing ELAN.” Presentation on developing time-aligned, multimedia transcripts using the ELAN software tool, given for the Language Documentation Research Cluster, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, November 15, 2012.
2012: “Tsuut'ina language documentation and revitalization.” Guest lecture given for LING 324 ("Endangered Languages"; instructor: Jordan Lachler), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 6, 2012.
2011: “Tsuut'ina segmental and suprasegmental phonology.” Guest lectures given for “Tsuut'ina Language and Culture II,” University of Calgary and Tsuu T'ina Nation, Tsuu T'ina, Alberta, March 6-7, 2012.
2011: “Plautdietsch in Canada.” Guest lecture given for LING 102 ("Introduction to Linguistics II"; instructor: Paula Chesley), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 23, 2011.
2011: “Linguistic diversity and language endangerment” (with Olivia N. Sammons). Guest lecture given for LING 101 ("Introduction to Linguistics I"; instructor: Philip Dilts), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 18, 2011.
2010: “Let's build a language archive!” Presentation given at the Department of Linguistics Data Blitz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 24, 2010.
2010: “ELAN workflows for documentary linguistics.” Presentation on applications of the ELAN software tool to common tasks in language documentation, given for the Language Documentation Research Cluster, University of Alberta, March 19, 2010.
2010: “Introducing ELAN.” Presentation on developing time-aligned, multimedia transcripts using the ELAN software tool, given for the Language Documentation Research Cluster, University of Alberta, February 4, 2010.
2009: “Computer-assisted tagging.” Guest lecture given for LING 515 ("Corpus Linguistics"; instructor: John Newman), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, January 22, 2009.
2008: “Corpora in linguistics.” Guest lecture given for LING 100 ("Introduction to Linguistic Analysis"; instructor: R. Harald Baayen), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, November 18, 2008.
2008: ”Tsuut'ina: Recent developments.” Presentation on collaborative projects with the Tsuu T'ina Nation and the University of Alberta, given to the Language Documentation Research Cluster, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, October 6, 2008.
2008: “From the archive to the web: introducing CuPED.” Presentation given at the Department of Linguistics Data Blitz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 12, 2008.
2008: “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Linear Ordering in VFin Two- Element Finite Verb Complementation Constructions In Mennonite Plautdietsch.” Presentation given at the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics Data Blitz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, April 16, 2008.
2008: “The pitch for Python.” Presentation introducing the Python programming language, given at the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 13, 2008.
2007: “Constructing a corpus of Plautdietsch.” Presentation on preparing a consistent set of digital Mennonite Plautdietsch language materials (corpus), given at the Department of Linguistics Data Blitz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 14, 2007.

Research Experience

2010-2012: Contributor, Dene Speech Atlas (PI: Joyce McDonough, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester); Collaborated with speakers of North Slavey, South Slavey, Gwich'in, Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì, Dene Sųłiné, and Tsuut'ina to document the phonetics and prosody of northern Dene languages; Recorded, processed, translated, and annotated high-definition audio and video language materials for use in analysis and presentation on the web
2007-2008: Research assistant, Tsuut'ina dictionary revisions (Supervisor: Sally Rice, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta); Developed software to process and extract portions of a pedagogical dictionary of Tsuut'ina for incorporation in a Tsuut'ina language database
2007-2008: Research assistant, International Corpus of English (Supervisor: John Newman, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta); Transcribed and annotated audio data for the Canadian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE)
2006: Research assistant, ARIES Research Laboratory (supervisor: Jim Greer, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan); Developed e-learning research software components for user management and database maintenance
2005-2006: Research assistant, Perceval Project (Supervisor: Yin Liu, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan); Contributed to the design and development of custom software tools to encode, annotate, and analyze digital editions of medieval manuscripts
2004: Research assistant, Institute for Nuclear Physics (Supervisor: Harald Genz, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Adapted high-energy physics research software for use on Alpha processors; Established and managed a website for the Gerhard Herzberg Gesellschaft
2003, 2002: Student researcher, MADMUC Research Laboratory (Supervisor: Julita Vassileva, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan); Implemented prototype network clients and web-based visualizations for research into community formation in peer-to-peer networks

Language Documentation

Field-based language research

1995-: Plautdietsch (Indo-European, West Germanic); Participation in Saskatchewan Plautdietsch speech community as a student and researcher since 1995; Language study and research in Plautdietsch-speaking communities in Bolivia (2007) and northern Mexico (2010); Produced recordings of community languages events, interviews with speakers, audio versions of Mennonite Plautdietsch texts and learning materials, and co-organized community language classes (2005-); Created first public website in Mennonite Plautdietsch (1996), first annotated digital corpus of Mennonite Plautdietsch (2006-2008), and first Mennonite Plautdietsch spell-checker (2007-2008)
2007-: Tsuut'ina (Na-Dene); Contributed to recording Elder interviews and language and culture events in the community, developing recordings into bilingual language materials (2008-); Led community-based workshops and courses on language documentation and Tsuut'ina linguistics with Tsuut'ina learners, teachers, and Elders; Collaborated with Tsuut'ina Elders on linguistic analysis (230+ hours of recorded consultation sessions since May 2010); Coordinated training and digitization of 200+ hours of historical Tsuut'ina language audio recordings (with Benjamin V. Tucker, Bruce Starlight, and the Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute); Explored new methods for the rapid development of annotated collections of bilingual language materials (with Doris Roan and Singingwind Little Star-Roan); Ongoing work with Bruce Starlight and the Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute to revise and republish a collection of traditional Tsuut'ina stories in multimedia form and to develop a verb dictionary and related pedagogical materials for Tsuut'ina learners
2010-2012: Michif (Algonquian, Indo-European); Volunteer assistance with video and audio recording, post-processing, transcription, and dissemination of Michif language materials in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (with Olivia N. Sammons, University of Alberta, and members of the Métis Nation of Alberta)
2009, 2011: Dene Sųłiné (Na-Dene); Volunteer assistance with video and audio recording, post-processing, transcription, and dissemination of Dene Sųłiné language materials in Cold Lake, Alberta (with Sally Rice, University of Alberta, and members of Cold Lake First Nations)
2009: Gwich'in (Na-Dene); Worked with Terry Remy-Sawyer (Tsiigehtchic, NWT) to record and transcribe traditional and personal stories in Gwich'in (with Conor Snoek, University of Alberta)

Archive-based language research

2010: Digitization, Canadian Dene fieldnotes, Robert W. Young Collection; Created and edited a complete set of high-resolution digital scans of historical fieldnotes on several Canadian Dene languages in the Robert W. Young Collection (with the Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico)
2010: Digitization, Mennonite Plautdietsch texts, Reuben Epp Fonds; Created and catalogued high-resolution digital copies of unpublished Mennonite Plautdietsch texts in the Reuben Epp Fonds of the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

Software development

2008-: CuPED ("Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents"; with Andrea L. Berez University of Mawai'i at Mānoa); Free, open-source software for transforming digital language materials into learner-friendly, web-based "clickable stories," now used in professional publications (Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary, Beck 2011) and community-based research.
2010: ELAN ("EUDICO Linguistic Annotator"; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands); Contributed source code to add additional export options address several outstanding bugs

Service

Professional service

2012-: Organizational committee member, Dene Languages Conference 2013, in partnership with the Tsuu T'ina Nation, Cold Lake First Nations, University of Alberta, and University of Victoria. (June 12-14, 2013)
2011-: Organizational committee student member, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference at the University of Alberta. (June 23-28, 2013)
2010-: Liaison, Department of Linguistics and University of Alberta Libraries. Ongoing discussions concerning infrastructure, metadata, and policy requirements for establishing a digital language archive in coordination with the University of Alberta Education and Research Archive (ERA) institutional digital repository.
1999-: Founder and moderator, PLAUTDIETSCH-L online discussion forum. An online community which brings together speakers, students, and scholars of Mennonite Plautdietsch from around the world to share information, develop contacts between communities, and create opportunities for Plautdietsch language use in a digital setting.
2012: Workshop co-organizer, "Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing and Relationship" (with Andrée Boisselle, York University; Julia Christensen, University of British Columbia; and Lisa Szabo-Jones, University of Alberta). Three-day interdisciplinary workshop with national experts on research and storytelling, held in coordination with Yellowknives Dene First Nation in Dettah, NWT. Funded by SSHRC, the Trudeau Foundation, the Government of the Northwest Territories (Health, Culture), the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research, and private contributions. (June 18-20, 2012)
2012: Participant (with Jordan Lachler, Olivia N. Sammons, and Andrea Wilhelm), meetings and presentations in northern Saskatchewan Aboriginal communities to promote the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. (April 18-19, 2012)
2009-2012: Treasurer, Linguistics Graduate Students Association at the University of Alberta
2009-2011: Organizer (with Olivia N. Sammons and Conor Snoek), Language Documentation Research Cluster Reading Group, University of Alberta.
2010: Volunteer, "Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition", University of Alberta. (February 13-14, 2010)
2009: Organizational committee member, American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, hosted by the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. (October 8-11, 2009)
2008: Volunteer, Sixth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, hosted by the University of Alberta in Banff, Alberta. (October 7-10, 2008)
2006-2008: Student representative, M.Sc. programme in the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
2002-2003: Academic representative, Department of Languages and Linguistics Course Union, University of Saskatchewan.

Community service

2012: Presenter (with Jake Buhler and Jacob M. Driedger), public book launch for "Enn Bloomenheim Oppjewossen" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, February 17, 2012.
2010-2012: Contributor (with Jacob M. Driedger), "World of Story" Project, Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, Edmonton, Alberta. Provided Mennonite Plautdietsch-language translations of story materials to promote first language retention and literacy.
2011: Co-organizer (with Dick Braun, Adeline Cox, Leonard Doell, Linda Doell, and Jacob M. Driedger), Mennonite Plautdietsch language classes for adult learners. Weekly evening classes for adults interested in learning or re-learning to speak Mennonite Plautdietsch. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 26–November 30, 2011.
2011: Volunteer medical interpreter for Mennonite Plautdietsch-speaking patients and families, Misericordia Community Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta.
2010: Panelist, round-table discussion on Aboriginal languages and film with filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, Distinguished Visitor to the University of Alberta, Faculty of Native Studies, October 28, 2010.
2010: Participant, Mennonite Central Committee Low German Networking Conference, April 19-25, 2010, in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico.
2010: Panelist, public round-table discussion on language endangerment at the Edmonton premiere of the film “The Linguists,” March 21, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta.
2010: Participant, University of Lethbridge Native Awareness Week, assisting in presenting the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute, March 3, 2010, Lethbridge, Alberta.
2003: Volunteer ESL conversation partner, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
2001-2002: Volunteer peer tutorial session leader, offering assistance to students of Linguistics and German on a weekly basis for the Department of Languages and Linguistics Course Union, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Software Tool Proficiency

Language documentation: ELAN, Lexique Pro, Praat, Toolbox, Transcriber
Media production: Adobe Audition, Audacity, Final Cut Suite 7 (DVD Studio Pro 4, Final Cut Pro 7), Final Cut Pro X, iDVD, iMovie, OmniPage Pro
Office software: LaTeX, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), OpenOffice
Operating systems: FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
Software development: C, Eiffel, Java, PHP, Python, R, SQL, Unix tools
Web development: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT

Languages

Native: English
Proficient: Mennonite Plautdietsch, Standard German
Studied: French, Russian, Old English, Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
Research: Tsuut'ina, Gwich'in

Professional Memberships

2011-: Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
2006-: Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA/ACL)
2006-: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Last modified: October 5, 2013