ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY
HEAD, INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN LINGUISTICS
TULANE UNIVERSITY
Department of Anthropology 7605 Sycamore Street
Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 862-3046 (504) 865-9935
FAX (504) 865-5338
e-mail maxwell@tulane.edu
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, 1966-68, 69-70. (BA, TESOL, 1970)
Michigan State University, 1970-72. (MA, Linguistics, 1976)
University of Chicago, 1976-78. (PhD, Linguistics, Anthropology, 1982)
THESES
MA Aspects of the theory of tone with special reference to Hausa
PhD How to talk to people who talk chekel `different': the Chuj
(Mayan) solution
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Consultant for Ministry of Education, Guatemala. Project to develop Pedagogical Neologisms in Eleven Mayan languages, 1/2003-8/2003
Chaise, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 7/1991-5/1994
Associate professor of anthropology, Tulane University, 7/1990- present
Head of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, Tulane University, 7/83- present
Technical consultant UNICEF, Guatemala, August 1995 - June 1996
Technical consultant Kaqchikel Cholchi' (regional office of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala), August 1995- June 1996
Assistant professor of anthropology, Tulane University, 7/84 to 7/1990
Visiting assistant professor of anthropology, Tulane University,7/83-7/84
Visiting professor, Universidad Mariano Gálvez, departamento de lingüística, Guatemala, 6/93-12/93 and 6-8/94, July 1995-July 1996, (pro bono, salary to scholarship fund)
Visiting professor, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Instituto de la Lingüística, Guatemala, Guatemala, 6/93 -12/93 (pro bono), July 1995- June 1996
Professor, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, January 1996 - June 1996
Professor of linguistics and editor-in-chief of the Linguistic Atlas of El Salvador, Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador, 8/78-9/78 and 8/79-7/80
Research assistant, Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States and Canada, University of Chicago, 10/1976-6/79
Technical consultant, ESEA Title VI, Lansing School District, Lansing, Michigan, 10/77- 1/78
Instructor of linguistics, director of Chuj language research and materials development, Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín, Antigua, Guatemala, 6/73-7/76
Teaching assistant in linguistics and English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 9/72-6/73
Teaching assistant in linguistics, Michigan State University, 9/70-6/72
RESEARCH SPECIALTY
Discourse analysis with emphasis on the development of explicit mechanisms for expressing the interconnectedness of levels of grammatical and semantic description
Bilingual-bicultural education with special reference to AmerInd languages
Cognitive mapping of semantic domains
Dialectology of English, Spanish, and major Mayan languages of Guatemala,
with emphasis on the sociolinguistic correlates of recorded linguistic
variation
FIELD RESEARCH
Project Date Funding
Han (Athapaskan): linguistic salvage and 7-9/72 NSF
ethnography
(Dr. R. Howren, principal investigator)
Chuj (Mayan): dictionary, grammar, and 6/73-7/76 Ford, Oxfam, and materialsPeace Corps
(Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín)
Ojibwe (Algonquin): bilingual education 10/77-1/78 Lansing School materials/training District
(Title VI)
Nahuat-Pipil (Uto-Aztecan): linguistic 8/79-7/80 Universidad
salvage & bilingual education Centroamericana
Kaqchikel (Mayan): cognitive mapping 12/83-1/84 Mesoamerican Ecology
Institute-Tinker
Yucatec (Mayan): cognitive mapping 6-8/84 Mesoamerican Ecology Institute - Tinker
Kaqchikel, K'iche', Mam, Q'eqchi' 6-7/85 American Philosophical
(Mayan): ethnicity markers in Society and Tulane
bilingual education texts Committee on Research
Southern English: (Germanic) 1/88- Wenner-Gren
dialectal exaggeration present
Kaqchikel Discourse Strategies 6/92-1/93 sabbatical leave
Kaqchikel Linguistic Revitalization 5/95-8/96 UNICEF
SUPPORT FOR OTHER PROJECTS
(with Dr. Robert M. Hill, II) Kaqchikel Chronicles Translation Project (National Endowment for the Humanities, $56,000, with $5,110 matching)
(with Justin J. Rudelson and Tristram R. Kidder) Establishment of the Video Methods Project in Anthropology, Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund, Board of Regents. Award $126,667. 1994
(with Marsha Houston) Women Speaking. Award from Committee on Newcomb
College. $500 (for video tapes to be made into an introductory film on
women's speech) 1991
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spoken and read: Spanish, French, Hausa, K'iche', Yucatec, Nahuat-Pipil, Nahuatl-Huasteca, Polish, Chuj, Kaqchikel
Studied structurally: Ixil, Awakateko, Q'eqchi', Poqomchi', Q'anjob'al, Jakalteko, Tz'utujil, Han, Navajo, Twi, Russian, Mam, Japanese, Cherokee, Ojibwe, Fulani, Yoruba, Swahili, Lakota (Sioux), Zapotec
Read: German, Classical K'iche', Classical Yucatec, Classical
Nahuatl
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Linguistic Society of America, American Anthropological Association,
Human Rights Group of the American Anthropological Association, Society
for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America, Lingüistas en Pro
de los Idiomas Mayas, Latin American Studies Association, Society for Linguistic
Anthropology
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1988 Resolutions Committee chair for the Linguistic Society of America
1988 Co-chair Local Arrangements Committee for the 1988 national meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
1994-1995 Co-chair Local Arrangements Committee for 1995 national meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
1994-1995 Co-organizer (with Harry Howard) of the Parasession to the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America: Language South of the Río Bravo, to be held at Tulane University, January 8-10, 1995
Teaching awards
1991 Order of Omega "Favorite" Professor Award ("Order of Omega is a Greek honor society that upholds the standards of scholarship, leadership, community service, and character.)
1998 Provost's Teaching Excellence Award ($2,000 budget allotment accompanies this award, to be used to enhance teaching. I used these monies to by Phonetics CDs, IPA fonts, slide carousels and hand-held recording devices.)
2001 Mortar Board Award for Teaching Excellence
PUBLICATIONS
books:
1992 (with Craig Hanson) Of the Manners of Speaking that the Old Ones Had: the Metaphors of Andrés de Olmos In the TULAL Manuscript with computer concordance by Walter Witschey. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
1998 (with Mateo Felipe Diego and Juan Gaspar Juan) Diccionario del Idioma Chuj. Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín: Antigua, Guatemala.
books in Spanish and/or Mayan languages
1995 with Martin Chacach Rukemik K'ak'a' Taq Tzij: Criterios para la creación de neologismos Nawal Wuj and Cholsamaj.
1995 (with Ixch'umil Eulalia Patal Xinico, Kaqb'alam Oswaldo Ajzalán Morales)Ruk'utik ri Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl. Nab'ey Wuj, El Idioma Kaqchikel Como Segunda Lengua. No. 1. Cholsamaj: Guatemala (Introductory Kaqchikel language text for Kaqchikel children who do not speak their "mother tongue".)
1996 (with Ixch'umil Eulalia Patal Xinico, Kaqb'alam Oswaldo Ajzalán Morales) Ruchojmilal Retamaxic ri Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl. Guía del Maestro del Kaqchikel Como Segunda Lengua. Cholsamaj: Guatemala (Guide for teachers to the introductory Kaqchikel language textbook, includes historical vignettes, linguistic analyses, source material, games, and pedagogical instruction in the use of the new teaching methods employed.)
1996 (with Ixch'umil Eulalia Patal Xinico, Kaqb'alam Oswaldo Ajzalán Morales) Ruk'utik ri Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl. Ruka'n Wuj. El Idioma Kaqchikel Como Segunda Lengua, no. II. Guatemala: Maya and Cholsamaj. (Intermediate language text for Kaqchikel children who do not speak their "mother tongue".)
1996 (with Ixch'umil Eulalia Patal Xinico, Kaqb'alam Oswaldo Ajzalán Morales) Ruchojmilal Retamaxik ri Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl. II Guía del Maestro del Kaqchikel Como Segunda Lengua. II Cholsamaj: Guatemala (Guide for teachers to the intermediate Kaqchikel language textbook.)
1996 with Ixcha'im Marliny Son Chonaj, Ixim Nik'te' María Carmela Rodríguez Quiej, and Ixkusamil Simón Apén. Diccionario de neologismos. UNICEF. Guatemala.
1998 Neologismos Kaqchikeles en las Ciencias Naturales. Guatemala: Kaqchikel Cholchi' and UNICEF
2001 Textos Chujes de San Mateo Ixtatán. Fundación
Yax Te': Palos Verdes, CA
Co-researched and co-authored Guatemalan applied publications
(the following titles were done in collaboration with the staff of Kaqchikel
Cholchi' from August 1995-1996. Principal co-authors, unless otherwise
indicated, are Ixcha'im Marliny Son Chonay and Ixim Nik'te' María
Carmen Rodríguez Quiej. Texts for the Bilingual Schools were formatted
and pre-tested by Kaqb'alam and Ixch'umil, as well as ad hoc panels of
teachers from the 42 participating schools.)
1996 K'ak'a' taq Tzij richin Retamab'alil Ajilanem. Neologismos útiles para Matématica. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 K'ak'a' taq Tzij richin Retamab'alil Ch'ab'äl. Neologismos para Artes del Idioma.
Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 K'ak'a' taq Tzij richin Retamab'alil Winaqil. Neologismos útiles para Ambiente Social.
Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 Rukemik K'ak'a' taq Tzij. Criterios para la Creación de Neologismos en Kaqchikel. (with Kab'lajuj Tijax Martín Chacach and Pakal B'alam José Obispo Rodríguez Guaján)
1996 K'ak'a' taq Tzij richin Retamab'alil Kajulew. Vocabulario para Ambiente Natural. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 Kaqtijonïk Rutz'ib'axik Qach'ab'äl. Transferencia de Lectoescritura. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 B'oniwuj. Cuaderno para Colorear. Enseñanza del Kaqchikel como Segunda Lengua. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 Ruchojmilal Nab'ey taq Tzij pa Qach'ab'äl. Guía de Alfabetación. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 Kaqtijonïk pa Qach'ab'äl. Alfabetización en Kaqchikel. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
1996 Nab'ey Wuj Ruk'utik ri Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl. El Idioma Kaqchikel como Segunda Lengua. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
book chapters:
1990 Discourse Structure: an overview. in Lecturas en la Lingüística Maya, Nora England and Stephen Elliott, eds., Guatemala: CIRMA. pp. 445-461.
1997 Discourse Strategies: Then and Now. The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs. Martha J. Macri and Anabel Ford, eds. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute:San Francisco, CA
1996 Linguistic Standardization and Revitalization: the Kaqchikel case. Chapter in Mayan Revitalization in Guatemala, pp. 195-207. ed. R. McKenna Brown and E. Fischer, U of Texas Press
1999 "Gramática Prescriptiva y la Revitalización Kaqchikel" in El Activismo Cultural Maya en Guatemala. ed. Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown. (translation and slight reworking of "Linguistic Standardization and Revitalization: the Kaqchikel case." Chapter in Mayan Revitalization in Guatemala, pp. 195-207. ed. R. McKenna Brown and E. Fischer, U of Texas Press.) pp. 251-267. Cholsamaj: Guatemala.
2004 "Ownership of Indigenous Languages: whose resources is this anyway? A case study from Guatemala." in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights: Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions, ed. Mary Riley. Altamira Press (Native American Series): Oxford.
Journal articles and proceedings:
1976 The intransitive verb in Chuj: or when can an intransitive verb take an object? Mayan Linguistics 1: 128-140.
1978 a Chuj Clause Collapsing. Papers in Mayan Linguistics (Studies in Mayan Linguistics, No. 2: University of Missouri, Miscellaneous Publications in Anthropology, No. 6) Nora England, ed. pp. 127-135.
1978 b (with Richard Alderson III) A syllable by any other structure would last as long. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. pp. 265-271.
1978 c Un estudio lingüístico salvadoreño: el nahuatl como lengua franca en mesoamérica. Estudios Centroamericanos 12: 734-736.
1980 Yarns spun by Ixils. Mayan Texts III (International Journal of American Linguistics- Native American Text Series, Monograph No. 5) Louanna Furbee, ed. pp. 60-68.
1981 a For you- a special language: market Chuj. Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior of the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. pp. 149-155.
1981 b Vowels in the Nahuat-Pipil of El Salvador. In Memory of Fernando Horcasitas. (Texas Linguistic Forum 18) Frances Karttunen, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 171-181.
1981 c Nahuat-Pipil: `muy político'. Cultural Survival, Inc. Quarterly 6(1): 17-18.
1983 A simplified code: Chuj (Mayan) as written by native speakers. Journal of Mayan Linguistics 4:3-10.
1985 Subclassification of illness and pain among speakers of two Mayan Languages: Cakchiquel and Yucatec Maya. International Journal of American Linguistics 51: 499-502.
1988 The Temple of the Cross Main Panels: a Reading. Report of the 1987 Advanced Seminar in Mayan Hieroglyphs, University of Texas at Austin. Carolyn Young and Tom Jones, eds. pp. 10-20.
1989 Some Aspects of Chuj Discourse. In Anthropological Linguistics 29:4. Brian Stross, ed.
1993 (with Jesse Nash) Navajo Foot Races. In Papers from the third, fourth, and sixth Navajo Studies Conferences. ed. June-el Piper, compiled by Alexandra Roberts and Jenevieve Smith. Window Rock: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department.
Dr. Allie Roberts, ed. Navajo Historical Preservation Department.
1996 Reconstrucción del Calendario Sagrado. Cholb'al Q'ij: Agenda Maya. Guatemala: Cholsamaj and Maya Wuj.
1999 (with Ted Fischer) Political Linguistics and Maya Worldview: The Creation of Neologisms in Kaqchikel Mayan, in the Proceedings of the SALSA Conference held in Austin, TX, April 24-26. University of Texas Press: Austin
1999 Säq, Räx, Q'än, Blanco, Verde, Amarillo: Metáforas Kaqchikeles de los siglos 16 y 20, in the Proceedings of the Indigenous Literatures Conference, Antigua, Guatemala, Aug. 1-5, 1998. Saqb'e: Guatemala
encyclopedia entries
1996 The Kaqchikel. In Encyclopedia of Latin American History. vol. ed. Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
1996 The Annals of the Kaqchikel. In Encyclopedia of Latin American History. vol. ed. Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
1996 Chuj (Maya). In Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vol. 8. Middle America and the Caribbean. ed. James Dow. New Haven, CT: Human Area Relations Files.
1998 Languages at the Time of Contact. (4000 word article) in The Arcaheology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: an Encyclopedia. eds. Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster. Garland Publishing: New York
2000 Short articles( 500- 1500 words) for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, eds. Daniel Balderston, Ana López, and Mike González. Routledge: London. The topics (with word count) were: Humberto Ak'ab'al (100 words) , bilingual/bicultural education (400), bilingualism and biculturalism (100 words), CEDIM (100), Etnías (100), Ethnicity (1000), Indian (100), indigenous languages of highland South America (1000), indigenous languages of lowland South America (1000), Ladino(100), language loss (400), magic (1000), the Maya revitalization movement (400), Mayan Languages (400), Rigoberta Menchú (400), mestizo (100), Mexican and Central American indigenous languages (1000), Nahuatl and Aztecan languages (400), Victor Pereira (100), Adrian Recinos (100), Ríos Montt (100), and URNG (100).
2000 "Languages at the Time of Contact" 4000 word entry for The Archaeology
of Ancient Mexico and Central America: an Encyclopedia. ed. Garland
Publishing, New York.
LIMITED RUN PRINTINGS
1975 a (with Ku7 Tz'u7ch as principal author) 7Uq'aa Tz'ib we tu yolb'aj Nab'aj. (We Write in the Language of Nebaj.) Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín.
1975 b (with Ku7 Tz'u7ch as principal author) Walchaa Kaalu wa7 Seete we7 B'anax Naytzen Nab'aj. (As it is Said Thus it was Done in Nebaj.) Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín.
1975 c (with Ku7 Tz'u7ch as principal author) We7 7ib'an Q'aamam Kukuy Nab'aj. (As Did our Grandfathers in Nebaj.) Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín.
1975 d (with Mateo Hernández as principal author) Nok' Nok' yet' Te7 Te7 Kilumal. (The Animals and Plants of Our Land.) Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín.
1977 Ojibwe Orthography. Lansing: Lansing School District.
1993 Oxlajuj Aj. teachers manual for the Kaqchikel Language and Culture Course. photoduplicated in Antigua Guatemala by CIRMA (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica)
1997 Oxlajuj Aj, II. Spanish language textbook for non-Mayan students of Kaqchikel. Photoduplicated for the Intensive Summer Kaqchikel Language and Culture Course sponsored by Tulane and the University of Texas at Austin.
2003 Runuk'ik K'ak'a' Taq Tzij: Creación de Neologismos Pedagógicos. Ministerio de Educación: Guatemala
2003 Neologismos Pedagógicos: DIGEBI 2003: Compilación
final de vocablos creados en los once idiomas. Ministerio de Educación:
Guatemala (also reproduced in digital format for distribution to the bilingual
schools served by DIGEBI [Dirección General de Educación
Bilingüe Intercultural)
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Speaking Mexicano, by Jane H. Hill and Kenneth C. Hill, for Latin America in Books.
Review of Tzutujil Grammar, by Jon Dayley, for Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America.
Review of Cantares Mexicanos, by John Bierhorst, for Latin America in Books.
Review of The Testaments of Culhuacán, by S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, for Latin America in Books.
Review of Mayan Glyphs: the Verbs, by Linda Schele, for Latin America in Books.
Review of The Mesoamerican Indian Languages, by Jorge Suárez, for Latin America in Books.
Review of Language in the Americas, by Joseph Greenberg, for Latin America in Books.
Review of Handbook of Amazonian Languages: Vol. 1., by Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum, for Latin America in Books.
Review of The Art of Nahuatl Speech: the Bancroft Dialogues, by Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, for Latin American in Books.
Review of Text and Talk as Social Practice: Discourse Difference and Division in Speech and Writing. ed. Brian Torode., for Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. vol 67:1.
Review of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary by Robert M. Laughlin with John B. Haviland, for Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association.
Review of The Last Phonological Rule for "Language Quarterly"
Review of Roots of Identity: Language and Literacy in Mexico by Linda King, for Anthropological Linguistics 41:2: p. 275-277.
Review of Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization by Susan Garzon, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards, and Wuqu' Ajpub' (Arnulfo Simón)University of Texas Press: Austin. for Language in Society w of The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing. for Ancient America.
Review: Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and other Mayan Folktales
(1999) James D. Sexton and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán. Smithsonian Institution
Press: Washington and The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance,
Shift, and Revitalizaton (1998) Susan, Garzón, R. McKenna Brown,
Julia Becker Richards, and Wuqu' Ajpub'. The University of Texas Press:
Austin. December 2002 Ethnohistory Journal
IN PRESS
a Ada/opting the Mayan Hieroglyphs as Part of Twentieth Century Guatemalan Mayan Texts, to appear in the proceedings of the Conference Honoring Mary Elizabeth Smith held at Tulane, April 2-4 1998, to be published by the MesoAmerican Research Institute: New Orleans.
b Säq, Räx, Qän, Blanco, Verde, Amarillo: Metáforas Kaqchikeles de los siglos XVI y XX, to appear in La Metáfora en Mesoamérica. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM: México, D.F.
c James D. McCawley. Encyclopedia of Linguistics Routledge: New York. (1,617 words)
d Putting the "Subject" back in "Research Subject" in Conducting Ethical Research among Vulnerable, Indigenous Groups, ed. Gale Goodwin. Amsterdam: Kluwer/Plenum
Publishers
e (with R. McKenna Brown and Walter E. Little) Tiqetamaj Kaqchikel! University of Texas Press: Austin. contract issued November 2002, ms. delivered January 30, 2004.
f (with R. M. Hill, II) Kaqchikel Chronicles University of Texas Press: Austin. (contract issued January 2004)
articles and book chapters under review
Ergative shift in Chuj and Q'anjob'al. Submitted to a festschrift volume for Terrence Kaufman, edited by Thom Smith-Stark and Robert Zavala.
Shared and Non-shared Nudity among the Kaqchikel: Clothing the Boundaries.
Submitted to a volume on Nudity edited by Adeline Masquelier. Routledge
Press.
NEWSLETTER
Editor, 1986 to 1989: Mayan Linguistics Newsletter. Three issues
annually for approximately 250 readers.
PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
1972 On Suprasegmental Tone in Hausa. Africanists' Conference, Bloomington, IN.
1975 San Mateo Chuj, a VOS Language that's Paid the Price. Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
1981 On Becoming a Written Language: the Chuj (Mayan) case. Conference on the Relations between Oral and Written Expression, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
1982 a Wach' yalxi `it is well-spoken': the Chuj (Mayan) taxonomy of language. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1982 b `This' and `That' in Chuj (Mayan) Conversation and Narrative. Linguistic Society of America. San Diego, CA.
1984 Noun Classifiers and Discourse Structure. American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO.
1985 Tense Sequencing in Chuj Discourse. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
1986 a Three Tales- Two and a Half Linguistic Systems. American Anthropological
Association. Philadelphia, PA.
1987 c Women in Chuj Discourse: Center to Margin and Back. University of Utah Symposium on Language and Gender: A Cross-Linguistic, Cross Cultural Perspective. Salt Lake City: UT.
1987 d Workshop leader for the IX Taller Maya in Antigua, Guatemala. topic: Textos escritos y orales.
1987 e Pedagogia Maya Yucateco. IX Taller Maya. Antigua, Guatemala.
1988 a Meaning, Intention, and Responsibility: a Chuj (Mayan) Case. American Anthropological Association. Phoenix, AR.
1988 b (with Jesse Nash) Footraces and Navajo Ceremonial Life. Navajo Studies Conference. Tsaile, AR. (requested for proceedings volume following presentation)
1988 c What They Say They Say in Chuj (Mayan): Quotation in Narrative Genres. Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, LA.
1989 a Mayan Discourse Structures: Then and Now. Conference on the Language of Maya Hieroglyphics. Santa Barbara, CA.
1989 b Syncretism and Catholic Action: Chuj. Western Social Science Association, 31st Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
1989 c (with Shana Walton) Puttin' on the Style: Southern Accent Exaggeration. American Folklore Society. Philadelphia, PA. (this paper was solicited for publication in an anthology, see above.)
1989 d Thereby Hangs a Tale: Discourse and style in Kaqchikel mythic narrative. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
1989 e The Deceiver Deceived: The Englishman in India and Vice Versa. Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. New Orleans, LA
1990 a They say perhaps it is thus they say: evidentiality in Kaqchikel and Chuj (Maya)". American Assiociation of Anthropology. New Orleans.
1990 b The Emerging Standard in Kaqchikel Maya. Kentucky Modern Languages Conference. Lexington, KY
1991 a Prescriptive Grammar and Kaqchikel Revitalization". Society for Applied Anthropology. Charleston, SC.
1991 b Text Analysis: a Kaqchikel example. Mayan Linguistic Workshop. Rabinal, Guatemala
1991 c Covariación Sintáctica con la Estructura del Discurso en Dos Idiomas Mayances: el Chuj y el Kaqchikel. International Congress of Americanists. New Orleans, LA.
1991 d "Rat," Ncha "You," He said: Language of Solidarity Among the Kaqchikel (Maya) paper read at the American Anthropological Association meetings. November 21, 1991. Chicago, Illinois
1992 a Standardization in Kaqchikel Maya and the Demise or Reintegration of Spanish Loanwoards. Rediscovering America, 1492-1992. Baton Rouge, LSU. February 1992.
1992 b El discurso Maya a través de los siglos. XXIII Taller Maya, Sololá, Guatemala. June 23, 1992.
1992 c Linguistic Markers of Solidarity Among the Highland Maya. Latin American aStudies Association meeting, Sept. 27, 1992
1992 d Subjunctive and Irrealis in Kaqchikel (Mayan) Narrative. American Anthropological Association meeting. December 6, 1992.
1994 Words of Women: Discourse and Gender in Kaqchikel Maya. Latin American Studies Association. Atlanta, March 10, 1994.
1995 Standardization in Kaqchikel (Maya). Linguistic Society of America. January 6.
1995 Kaqchikel Metalanguage for Linguistic and Cultural Change." Language South of the Río Bravo. Conference sponsored by Tulane, the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. January 9.
1995 La oficialización de los idiomas mayas y su consecuencia. Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. 18 de septiembre (talk also given to Bilingual Education supervisors, Sept. 20)
1995 La unificación lingüística y la oficialización de las lenguas Mayas de Guatemala.
Sexto Congreso American de Lenguas Aborígenes. Guatemala. September 22.
1995 Undoing 500 Years of Linguistic Change: the Architecture of "Greater Mayan" Speech in Guatemalan Revitalization". paper read for me by Susan Garzón. American Anthropological Association meeting. November 22.
1996 La estandarización como cambio lingüístico. Keynote speech for the Primer Congreso de Estudios Mayas. Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala. August 9.
1997 Partículas Déicticas en el Kaqchikel (Maya). paper given at the Segundo Congreso de Estudios Mayas. Universidad Rafael Landívar. Guatemala. August 15.
1997 Purely Maya: Struggles in the Standardization Process for Mayan Languages of Guatemala. paper read at the American Anthropological Association meeting. November 21.
1998 (with Ted Fischer) Political Linguistics and Maya Worldview: The Creation of Neologisms in Kaqchikel Mayan, paper read at the SALSA Conference held in Austin, TX, April 24-26.
1998 Ada/opting the Mayan Hieroglyphs as Part of Twentieth Century Guatemalan Mayan Texts, paper read at the Conference Honoring Mary Elizabeth Smith held at Tulane, April 2-4 1998.
1998 Säq, Räx, Q'än, Blanco, Verde, Amarillo: Metáforas Kaqchikeles de los siglos 16 y 20 paper read at the Indigenous Literatures Conference, Antigua, Guatemala, Aug. 1-5, 1998
1999 Peace Accords, Language Identity, Language Change: a Case Study from the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala. paper given on Nov. 17 at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Chicago, IL
2000 Anthropological Linguistics in Guatemala During the K'ayewal, the "Difficulty". paper given on Nov.16 at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in San Francisco, CA
2001 La Creación de Neologismos para Textos de Primaria, Transformaciones Culturales. paper given at the Primera Feria Hemisférica de la Educación Indígena. July 25. Guatemala, Guatemala.
2001 Coherencia dentro del discurso de Kiwujil ri Xajila' (los Anales de los Kaqchikeles). paper read at the Cuarto Congreso de Estudios Mayas. August 3. Guatemala: Guatemala.
2001 Wa'e' Wawe': Here and Now, Then and Now: Shift in Kaqchikel Discourse Markers, paper read at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 29
2002 "Staying Feminine in Public Space: the Kaqchikel (Maya) Strategy." paper read April 5 at Cultural Encounters 2002, regional conference on language in Latin America, sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of Tulane University. April 4-6.
2002 "Life History of Alicia de Behrhorst: Kaqchikel Maya in New Orleans" paper read Nov. 20, at the 101 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans, LA Nov. 20-24.
2003 Out from behind the hand: staying feminine in public space, the Maya solution. Latin American Studies Association meetings March 29, Dallas, TX
2003 Cambio semántico histórico y la retoma de conceptos autóctonos. Quinto Congreso de Estudios Mayas, August 6, Guatemala, Guatemala.
2003 Putting the "Subject" back in "Research Subject".
Paper presented as part of the invited panel AAA Committee
on Ethics sponsored session: Conducting Ethical Fieldwork among Vulnerable,
Indigenous Groups at the 102 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association in Chicago, Nov. 27.
PRESENTATIONS
1983 Anaphora, Anti-passive, and Discourse Structure in Chuj (Mayan). Tulane Linguistics Circle.
1984 You surplised I Speak your Ranguage - Chuj (Mayan) Style: Language Accommodation in Speaking and Writing. Tulane Linguistics Circle.
1985 Through the Language Looking Glass to Culture. Symposium on Teaching Language and Culture in the Spanish Language Classroom. Curriculum Resource Center. Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
1986 a Language and Gender. Jean Lafitte National Park staff orientation.
1986 b The Language and Culture of Guatemala. Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
1986 c Maya-Spanish: the Changing Balance of Power. Tulane PIP Workshop.
1987 a Puttin' on the Style: Report on Work in Progress. Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium.
1987 b Interview with Ms. Ursula LeGuin.
1987 c Panelist in Preview Conference: Late Night at Tulane.
1987 f Recursos para la Creación de Palabras Nuevas. PRONEBI (Programa Nacional de Educación Bilingüe-Intercultural): Guatemala, Guatemala.
1988 (with Craig Hanson) Tite:tencuauhtlahto:z i:pan I:huehuetlahtol Olmos (1547) `We Speak Clumsily on the Ancients' Words of Olmos (1547)'. Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium
1989 a La lingüística moderna y los idiomas mayas. XI Taller Maya. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
1989 b Panelist: The Western Literary Tradition and Asia. Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. New Orleans, LA
1991 a Bilingual Teaching Materials: Ethnic Symbols in the Curriculum. Center for Latin American Studies Forum series: "The Maya Renaissance: A Closer Look".
1991 b Standardization and Structural Change in Kaqchikel. Invited lecture sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Texas, Austin.
1991 c Reinventing Culture and Redefining Language: the Kaqchikel Case. Anthropology Graduate Colloquium
1991 d (with Tomás Chacach) Loq'olaj Ixim: Sacred Corn. for Latin American Studies Graduate forum
1992 a Traducción de fuentes ethnohistóricas del nahuatl del siglo 16. Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, Oct. 28, 1992.
1992 b Why Linguistics? Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, November 11, 1992
1993 a Estratégias para la formación de neologismos. invited paper, XV Taller Maya, San Luís, Petén, Guatemala.
1993 b La estandardización y los idiomas mayas: dos casos de Guatemala. invited presentation, Universidad del Valle, March 1993.
1993 c discussant for panel "Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Kaqchikel Maya Area, Guatemala" at annual meeting of the AAA, Nov. 17, Washington, D.C.
1994 Linguistics and Indigenous Languages of Guatemala, invited lecture for the Antigua, Guatemala Foreign Scholars Symposium, July 20, 1994
1994 with Oxlajuj Ajmaq. Metalanguage of Revitalization. Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University. September 23
1995 Como crear neologismos. Workshop with representatives of seven linguistic communities of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. September 25.
1995 Las vocales y su escritura, con referencia especial a los idiomas del grupo K'iche'.
Talk for conference of representatives of seven linguistic communities of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. September 26.
1995 Trayectoria histórica de los idiomas Mayas desde la unidad del Proto-Maya hacia la oficialización de X número de idiomas Mayas de Guatemala. talk for Centro de Alfabetización Maya. Patzún, Guatemala. October 5.
1995 Cursillo intensivo: la estructura de frases en idiomas mayas en general y en el Kaqchikel en particular. La Antigua Guatemala. October 16-19 and 23.
1995 Molaj Q'ajunem: Semántica. IGER (Instituto Guatemalteco de Educación Radiofónica) Patz'iya', Guatemala. November 13.
1995 Cursillo: Uso de diccionario monosilábico y la creación de neologismos. Siete
Comunidades K'iche'anas. Nov. 14- Nov. 17. Chimaltenango, Guatemala.
1996 La lingüística como base para la creación de neologismos. Kaqchikel Cholchi'. Feb. 2. Chimaltenango, Guatemala
1996 La gramática Kaqchikel: sintaxis básica. Kaqchikel Cholchi'. Feb. 16. Chimaltenango.
1996 La sociolingüística del aprendizaje de segundos idiomas. Maestros y supervisores de educación bilingüe-bicultural. Chimaltenango. March 15, 1996.
1996 La derivación de sustantivos y verbos en los idiomas K'iche'anos. Siete comunidades K'iche'anos de la Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. Tecpán, Guatemala. March 22.
1996 La unidad de los Kaqchikels desde su prehistoria hasta actualidad. talk to MINUGUA (United Nations Mission to Guatemala [for human rights supervision]). March 27.
1996 Teorías Sobre el Origen de los Idiomas Mayas. talk to Academia de las Idiomas Mayas de Guatemala. CENDEC (extension college). Chimaltenango. March 28.
1996 La fragmentación lingüística en la ciencia y en la política. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, National Anthropology Symposium. May 7.
1996 with R. McKenna. Pedagogía bilingüe, el maestro como facilitador. Maestros de las Escuelas Mayas Kaqchikeles. Tecpán. June 30.
1996 Educación bilingüe métodos y metas. COCADI (Comité Cakchikel de Desarrollo Integral). Chimaltenango. July 4.
1996 ¿Para qué crear neologismos? COCADI. Chimaltenango. July 15.
1996 New Maya for Old. Graduate Student Colloquium, Anthropology Department, Tulane University. Sept 6.
1997 "Good-enough Draw a Maya: what it means to be Maya in Guatemala today" lecture to Dr. M. Shea's seminar on Latin American Indian Literature
1997 "Guatemala Traje" lecture to Dr. Masquelier's ANTH 406 seminar on clothing.
1998 "Bad words in Kaqchikel (and why most of them are in Spanish) presentation for the Anthropology Student Union of Tulane's "Anthropology Week"
1999 Possible Economic Effects of the Acuerdo de Paz Firme y Duradera: Punta 3- Acuerdo Sobre Identidad y Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (31 marzo 1995) on the Indigenous Population of Guatemala. paper given at the Business Association of Latin American Studies conference, New Orleans, LA
1999 "Kaqchikel Maya cosmology and health", presentation to the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine International Health and Development course, "Health Development: an Applied Perspective" taught by Jane Bertrand in Guatemala. June 9 in Antigua, Guatemala.
1999 "Education in Mayan Languages of Guatemala", presentation for the symposium honoring Eleuterio Poot Yah, 35 Years of Teaching Excellence in Yucatec Maya. Sept. 16. Tulane University.
1999 "Four Linguistic 'Rights': language, culture, and the law in Guatemala", presentation for Tulane Law School Law and Anthropology class, taught by Mr. Anderson and Dr. Donovan, Nov. 6.
1999 Peace Accords, Language Identity, Language Change: a Case Study from the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala. presentation to the Tulane Linguistic Circle: preview of the paper to be given the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Chicago, IL. This presentation was a forty minute version of the talk which was then reduced to the 15 minutes of the AAA program
2000 Standard Language Hegemony: English, American English and the World. 45 minute presentation to the IIE-Fulbright Conference on Cultural Hegemony, March 18, Le Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans.
2000 "Kaqchikel Creations and (Re-)creations", 50 minute presentation for the Graduate Student Colloquium of the Tulane Anthropology Department, March 24.
2000 "Wellness and illness: the world view of the Kaqchikel", 2 hour presentation for the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Guatemalan course, INHL 692: Health and Economic Development: An Applied Prospective, given in Antigua Guatemala, June 16, 2000.
2000 "La lingüística como implemento, como estratégia, como ciencia en Guatemala", one and a half hour lecture given at Escuela de Lingüística, Universidad Mariano Gálvez, August 5.
2001 "Language, Identity and Ethnocentrism", guest lecture in ANTH 102, Jan. 17.
2001 "Kaqchikel and Chuj Kinship", guest lecture in ANTH 403, Feb. 22.
2001 "Guatemalan Mayan Communities, "La Violencia", Peace Accords and Truth Commissions", guest lecture in POLS 302 Justice and Democracy in Latin America, March 13.
2001 "Kaqchikel Maya Spirituality", two guest lectures given for theology department, Southern Mississippi University, Hattiesburg, Sept. 13.
2001 "Indigenous Political Activism in Guatemala: the Revitalization of Mayan Languages", University of Connecticut, invited by the Center for Latin American Studies, university-wide lecture, Sept. 17.
2002 The Maya as "Other" in Guatemala, invited lecture for Tulane Cultural Studies Program. January 28, 2002
2002 (Re)constructing "legítimo" Maya: comparative linguistics and building a Mayan identity in Guatemala. March 21. talk given to Anthropology Department, Vanderbilt University.
2002 "Can there be an anthropology without othering the other?" participation as discussant for panel "Moral and Political Dimensions of Doing and Writing Ethnography in Latin America: Indigenous and Academic Perspectives", Nov. 20 at the 101 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA Nov. 20-24.
2003 Achike ruma tijonïk pa ka'i' ch'ab'äl? Why bilingual
education? talk delivered to the graduating class of Kikotemal High
School/Normal School in San Andrés Sematab'äj.
INVITED PARTICIPATION IN SYMPOSIA
1986 Cleveland Conference on Mayan Linguistics, K'inal Winik. Cleveland State University
Progress Report on the Interrelationship of Language and Genre Structure. Cleveland Conference on Mayan Linguistics. Cleveland, OH.
1987 Second Annual Cleveland Conference on Mayan Linguistics. K'inal Winik. Cleveland State University.
Written vs. Oral Literature in Mayan Languages. Cleveland Conference on Discourse in Mayan Languages. Cleveland, OH.
Panelist for the following symposia of the Cleveland Conference on Discourse in Mayan Languages:
(1) Discourse Features and Syntax in Mayan Languages.
(2) Noun Classification and Discourse in Mayan Languages.
(3) Chunking Phenomena in Mayan Discourse.
Genres: Numbers and Characteristics. Cleveland Conference on Discourse in Mayan Languages. Cleveland, OH.
1987 Cleveland Conference on Discourse in Mayan Languages, Cleveland State University
1989 Conference on the Language of Maya Hieroglyphics, University of California at Santa Barbara.
1990 Kentucky Conference on Modern Languages, Lexington, KY.
1991 Texas Symposium of Change in Guatemala.
1992 Facilitator for Kaqchikel division of the "Origins" section of the Texas Hieroglyphic Workshop, March 16-21
1995 judge for the first annual Kaqchikel school children's song competition October 11, 1995, Chimaltenango, Guatemala.
1997 invited lecture: "The New Maya Literacy". Texas Maya Meetings, April 1997. University of Texas, Austin.
1997 invited lecture: "Maya Identity and the Consequences of Peace in Guatemala". University of Kansas
1997 panel member and discussant: "Scholarship and the Indigenous Renaissance: Can the Academy Help Rescue Traditional Culture?" University of Kansas
1998 "Economic Consequences of Article Three of the Guatemalan Peace Accords: Peace, the Guatemalan Indian, and Money", paper given at the Business Association of Latin America Conference, Loyola University, April 8
1999 "International Law, the Peace Accords, and Indigenous Languages: bilingual education in Guatemala" paper given at the International Law: Approaching the New Millenium. 1999 International Law Society of America Fall Conference, for panel entitled "Law and Peace: Insights from Latin America". Oct. 7. New Orleans, LA
1999 "The Right to an Indigenous Language (and Culture): a case Study from Guatemala." paper given as for the Oct. 28 panel on article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. in St. Mary's University President's Peace Commission Program: Human Rights Have No Borders. Oct. 26-28, San Antonio, TX.
2000 one of five panelists in a plenary session discussing "Cultural Hegemony and Globalization", for the IIE-Fulbright Conference on Cultural Hegemony, March 18, Le Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans.
2000 "Ethnic relations, conflict resolution, economic futures: glimpses of Guatemala", for the Latin American Research Consortium Annual Meeting, March 25, New Orleans.
2001 "Linguistic Activism and Cultural Resurgence: A Kaqchikel Maya Adventure" paper given at the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean annual meeting, New Orleans, March 8.
2001 one of nine panelist invited as discussants to the plenary session
of the Primera Feria Hemisférica de Educación Indígena,
Guatemala, Guatemala, July 23.
WORKSHOPS
1996 Led two day workshop on bilingual education teaching methodology for teachers of Maya schools run by Kaqchikel Cholchi'(Kaqchikel division of the Academy of Mayan Languages, Chimaltenango, Guatemala). Fundación Ulew, Tecpán Guatemala. March 15-16.
1996 Led four day workshop on Discourse Analysis for linguists of Oxlajuuj Keej Mayaa' Ajtz'iib'. Antigua Guatemala. June 24-27
2001 Led two-day workshop on Discourse Analysis for linguists of Oxlajuuj Keej Mayaa' Ajtz'iib'. Antigua Guatemala. July 23-24
2003 Workshop for Kaqchikel Cholchi' on the application of statistics
to linguistic and sociolinguistic survey data, April 28
PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS
For NSF: 14 grant proposals
For NEH: 10 grant proposal
For Wenner-Gren: 1 grant proposal
For the journal Ethnohistory: review one article
For the journal Journal of Mayan Linguistics: review two articles
For Peter Lang Publishing: review one book manuscript
For University of Texas Press: one book manuscript
For Anthropological Linguistics: one book and two articles
For Journal of Linguistic Anthropology: two articles
For the journal Language and Society: one book reviewed
For the Journal of Ethnobiology: one article
For Ancient Mesoamerica: one article
For Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural development: one article
for Language: one article
for Linguistic Discovery: one article
for University of Colorado Press: one book manuscript (Alain Breton's
Rabinal Achi)
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Board of Kaqchikel Cholchi' for the review of the official translation of the Guatemalan Peace Accords
Review Board Kukuy, Indigenous language children's magazine,
published in Chimaltenango, multi-lingual (Spanish, Kaqchikel, K'iche',
Q'anjob'al, Mam, and occasional others)
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
a Kaqchikel revitalization, standardization, and language change.
b retranslation and analysis of the Anales de los Kaqchikeles and of the Títulos de Xpantzay , research co-directed by Dr. R.M. Hill, II and sponsored by NEH. Currently revising the manuscript in response to reviewers observations.
TEACHING AT TULANE
329/729 Nature of Language/Linguistic Analysis, 359/759 Introduction
to Syntax/Syntactic Theory, 701 Child Language Acquisition, 331/731 Prehistory
of Languages/ Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 640 Culture and Language,
412 Grand Canyon Colloquium, 203 Anthropology of Women and Men, 796 Yucatecan
Medicinal Plants and Cognitive Structure, 701 Yucatecan Color and Cognitive
Structure, 657 Phonology and Morphology, 642 Linguistic Field Methods,
670 Spoken Nahuatl, 701 Case Studies in Education in the U.S., 496 Language
and Gender, 491 Navajo, 499H Dialectology, 491 Functional Languages, Ling
499 Pidgins and Creoles, 702 Guatemalan Bilingual Education, 491/701 Language,
Gender, and Ethnography, LAS 406 Kaqchikel Language, LAS 498 Kaqchikel
Culture, Anth 796 Fulani, 491 Kaqchikel Texts, 491 Black Vernacular English
in the New Orleans Schools, 702 Ethnicity and Bilingual Education in Middle
America, 702 Sociolinguistics, 701/491 Language and Power, 498 Spanish
Interlanguage, 498 Politics of Ethnicity, 795 Popoluca, 496 Dialect Accommodation,
702 Discourse Analysis, 499 Shamanism and the Dream Quest, 701 Chol, 499
French Semantic Theory, 795 Japanese Grammar, 701 Code-switching, 701 Swahili
Grammar, 309 Language and Power, 795 Written Nahuatl, 491 Dialects and
Identity, 795 Pragmatics, 795 Classical Nahuatl, 406 War, 500 Maya Religion
and Activism, 366/766 Discourse Analysis, LING 499 Bilingual Education
in the US, LING 499 Romance Morphology, 495 Ritual Speech: Baseball, 495
Kaqchikel Literature, LAST 500 Women in the War in Guatemala, 496 Readings
in Linguistics: Great Thinkers, 495 Classical Kaqchikel: the Anales de
los Kaqchikeles, 359/759 Syntax, 368/768 Language and Power, 499H LinguisticNew
Orleans, 492 The Industrial Canal in New Orleans, 495 Nahuatl Codices,
491 Kaqchikel Readings, FREX 101-05 Voices and Identity in New Orleans,
491 Beginning Cherokee, 491 Austronesian Expansion, 491 Gaelic Analysis,
500 Language Contact in Southeast Asia, 309 Language and Culture, 499/500
Ecotourism, 702 Linguistic Analysis of Portuguese, LING 491 Computational
Linguistics, 795 L2 Acquisition, 495 Discourse of (Post-)War, 701 Agriculture
in Guatemala, TIDL 106 Trauma, Human Rights and Reconciliation
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
1985 to 1988 Newcomb Curriculum Committee
1985 to 1989 Advisory Committee for the Recreational Center
1985 to present Faculty Judicial Pool
1985 - 1986 Tulane University Task Force on Undergraduate Education (Holmes group)
1985 to 1995 Academic Ceremonies Committee
1987 to 1988 Newcomb College Executive Committee
1986 to 1988 Joint Subcommittee on Curriculum for the Liberal Arts
1988 Newcomb Honor Board faculty representative
1988 - 1991 LAS Grievance Committee
1988 - 1995 University College Committee on Athletic Programs
1988 - present Newcomb Fellow
1990 - present Newcomb College Committee for Research On Women
1990 - 1993 University College Advisory Board
1990 - 1993 University College English as a Second Language Committee
1992 - present Executive Committee of the Center for Latin American Studies
1992 - 1994 Ad Hoc Committee on the Less Commonly Taught Languages
1993 - 1996 University Committee on Committees, chair 1994-1995
1993 - present Paul M. Tulane College Honor Board
1994 - present Exercise and Sport Sciences Committee, University College
1994 - 1997 Committee on Newcomb College
1994 - present Committee on the Less Commonly Taught Languages
1997- 2000 head of the Executive Committee for the Center for Latin American Studies
1997 - 1998 head of the Search Committee for the Director of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
1997 - 2000 LAS representative to the University Senate
1997- 2000 member President's Faculty Advisory Committee
1998- present University College Council
1998 Fall member: Masculinity Study Group of the Center for Research on Women
1998-1999 member committee on Freshman Experience, seminar/colloquia
1998 - 2000 Newcomb Honor Board
1999 Spring member: feminist spirituality study group, Center for Research on Women
1999- 2001 University Promotions and Tenure Committee
2001-2002 First Year Experience Committee
2003 Newcomb Honor Board
2003 Tulane Senate Committee on Athletics
2003-present Stone Center's FLAS Intensive Summer Language Grants Committee
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
Member: Committee on Statistics and Research Design Review - Spring 1985
Chair: Preliminary Examination Committee - 1985
Member: Preliminary Examination Committee - 1984 to 1999
Newcomb Majors Advisor: 1984 to 1990
Undergraduate Majors Advisor: 1990-present
Graduate Student Advisor: 1985 to present
Freshman Advisor: 1986-1988, 1994- 1997
Acting chaise: Fall 1990
Chaise: Fall 1991-1994
Member: 1994: Committee for the Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Fund
Member: 1998: Green Committee (drafting revision of the departmental by-laws)
Head: 1997- present: PhD Language Proficiency Requirement Examination Committee
Member: 1997- present: member Graduate Student Teaching Oversight Committee (GSTOC), 2000- 2001 chair of GSTOC
faculty advisor Anthropology Student Union of Tulane (undergraduate
anthropology club) 1997-present
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
Head: Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics - Fall 1986 to present
Linguistics Majors Advisor: Fall 1986 to present
Organizer: Tulane Linguistic Circle
Discussion leader: Tulane Linguistic Circle "Brown Bag Luncheons"
2001-present LAST Working Group on Issues of Social Violence and Justice
2002-present LAST Graduate Admissions Committee
2002-present Graduate Admissions Latin American Studies
DEPARTMENTAL THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP AT TULANE (titles given where possible)
PhD theses directed: Jesse William Nash (1987) Vietnamese Values: Confucian, Catholic, American; Laurie Ann Greene (1992) A Grammar of Belizean Creole: Compilations from Two Existing United States Dialects; Shana Walton (1994) Flat Speech and Cajun Ethnic Identity in Louisiana; Weldon Lamb (2001) Mayan Month Names.
Committee member for PhD theses: Susan Marie Knowles (1984) A Descriptive Grammar of Chontal Maya (San Carlos Dialect); Geoffrey Kimball (1985) A Descriptive Grammar of Koasati; Barbara Edmonson (1988) A Descriptive Grammar of Huastec (Potosino Dialect); James M. Donovan (1994) Defining Religion: Death and Anxiety in Afro-Brazilian Cult; Servando Z. Hinojosa (1998) Spiritual Embodiment in a Highland Maya Community; Javier Ruedas (2001) The Marubo Political System; Matthew B. Krystal (2001) Resistance of Meaning: Masking in The Dance of the Conquest of Guatemala; Christian de Francisco (2004) Courting Modernity: Tradition, Globalization, and the Performance of Masculinity among the Papasi of Zanzibar
MA thesis directed: Lisa Bennett (2002) Tone in Yucatec Maya.
MA thesis reader: Grant Russell Aylesworth (2000?) Ancient Maya E-Group Architectural Assemblages.
Honors theses directed: Blake Hawthore (1992) A Cross-cultural Study of Banisteriopsis Visions Among the Indians of the Northwest Amazon; Kellie Jenkins (1992) Kachinas: Myth and Reality; Timothy J. Simth (1998) The Role of Religion in the Mayan Community of Guatemala: Worldview and the Creation of a New Identity; Margo Baum (2002) The Local Effects of Ecotourism; Prita Lal (2002) Cultural Dynamics: East Indians in the Caribbean
reader honors thesis: Robert P. Hamrick (1994) Appelative Phrases in the Inscriptions of Yaxchilan; Jonathan Maupin (1999) Dynamics of Kingship and Warfare in the Classic Maya Lowlands; Mirka Zapletal (1999) The Slave Quarters of Orange Grove Plantation: a Material Analysis; Laurel Fisher (2002) The Effect of Spanish on Yucatec Maya and Nahuatl. Melissa Hayes (2002) Do Phonological Processes Constrain the Speech of Two-Year-Old Children?.
LINGUISTICS THESES
PhD Director:
Mary Lynne Gasaway-Hill (1998) Language of Politics: the Louisiana Gubernatorial Race
Rebecca Moreton (2002) Mississippi Gulf Coast French: Phonology and Morphology
Fehintola Mosadomi (1998) Vowel Lengthening in Standard Yoruba.
PhD Reader:
John Moran (2002) An Analysis of the Narrative Past Tenses in the Old French Fabliaux
MA thesis reader: Eva Christine Thoren (2002) Reading through the Net: the Internet as a Reading Tool for Second Language Students
BA/BS honors theses:
directed: Jeri Ann Baker "Puttin' on the Hits": a study of dialects in Nashville, TN; Elaine Miller (1990) Spanish Interlanguage;(co-directed with Dr. Harry Howard) Ellen Stolzenberg (1996) Regional Variations in Spanish-English Codeswitching in the United States; Amy Ashbaugh (1996) Quasimodals in English; Melissa Kronenthal (1999) Bilingual Education in the United States; Petersen (2000); Mara Henderson (2000) Language Contact in a Javanese Speech Community.
reader: David Newton (1999)
OTHER GRADUATE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
PhD director: Latin American Studies. Robert McKenna Brown (1991) Language Maintenance and Shift in Four Kaqchikel Maya Towns.
PhD reader: Latin American Studies. David Carey, Jr. (1999) The Maya Historical Perspective. Pegram (2000)
MA Thesis director: Amber H. J. Judge (2000) Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Accounts- the Guatemalan Maya in the Economic, Social, and Political Periphery. The Maya Historical Perspective: Kramer (2000)
MA Theses reader:
Latin American Studies: David Carey, Jr. (1995) A Time of Transition in Guatemala: Indigenous Reality and Perceptions from Ubico to the October Revolution; Lori Boornazian (1996) A Comparative Study of Aztec and Mayan Writing; Max Kintner (1998); Julie Stewart (1999) Life When the Bullets Stop: Community Mobilization in Three, Rural Guatemalan Villages in the Post-War Era.
Art: Bryan R. Just (1999) The Maya Philosophy of Time and its Manifestations in Classic Period Text and Image.
NON-DEPARTMENTAL UNDERGRADUATE THESES
Reader Honor's thesis in history: Zapata (1997) The Coming of Democracy to Nicaragua.
Director Honor's thesis in Latin American Studies: Bret D. Gustafson (1991) Assessing Ethnopolitics in Guatemala: Ethnicity, Elections, and the Media
Reader Honor's thesis in Latin American Studies: Elizabeth Luth (1997?) Maya Women and their Reaction to the Violence of the Civil War; Christopher J. Strouse (2001) Mayan Literature at Home and in the West.
reader Honors thesis in French: Jeanette Patterson (2001) La
violence de la parole: le langage comme arme totalitaire dans Une tempête
d'Aimé Césaire et La leçon d'Eugène
Ionesco.
THESIS COMMITTEES FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES:
U-AB - 1 MA (anthropology) Helen Rivas; U of California, Santa Cruz - 1 PhD (linguistic anthropology) Lynette Melnar; U of Texas at Austin - 1 PhD (linguistics) Rusty Barrett, U of Texas at Austin - 1 PhD (anthropology) Jennifer Burtner, 1 PhD (anthropology) SUNY - Albany Timothy J. Smith; BS honors thesis, University of California at Berkely
Licenciatura Thesis
reader and first director: Alberto Esquit: Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala (1996)
directora: Marliny Son Chonay, Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Guatemala (1997)
directora: Vicente López López, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala, Guatemala (1999)
directora: Mario Marroquín Peliz, Universidad Rafael Landívar,
Guatemala (2003)
OUTSIDE REVIEWS FOR PROMOTION AND TENURE
1 review for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Virginia Commonwealth 1997
1 review for promotion to full professor. University of California, Davis 2000