Part-time Instructor of Anthropology
 Research Interests
Linguistics; race and ethnicity; North American Indians (especially Navajo).
Current Research
I am working on various projects related to Navajo language maintenance, either pedagogical methods for teaching second-language learners or analyzing language change in progress. Specifically I will present a paper on using a two-part analysis of the Navajo verb (rather than the traditional 10-part morphological analysis) for Navajo language pedagogy at the Diné Studies 2008 Shiprock conference, and I am also working on writing up a paper on periphrasis and language change in Navajo.
 Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. The Ohio State University
- M.A. University of New Mexico
- B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Courses
- ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
- ANT 301 World Patterns of Race and Ethnicity
- ANT 394 Topics: Native American Languages
Accolades
- 2006 Honored Professor Award, Miami University
Selected Publications
- 2005 Yiddish in Cincinnati. In Language Diversity in Michigan and Ohio: Towards Two State Linguistic Profiles. Brian D. Joseph, Carol G. Preston, and Dennis R. Preston, eds. pp. 211-216. Ann Arbor: Caravan Books.
- 2004 Bilingual Navajo: Mixed Codes, Bilingualism, and Language Maintenance. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University.
- 2003 The Emergence of Bilingual Navajo: English and Navajo Languages in Contact Regardless of Everyone's Best Intentions. In When Languages Collide. Brian Joseph, Johanna DeStefano, Neil G. Jacobs, Ilse Lehiste, eds. pp. 235-54. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press.
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