Arienne (Ph.D. in Altaic and Chinese Linguistics, U Washington, 1996) is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Kansas, with formal affiliations with the Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Nations Studies. She has conducted nearly 20 years of fieldwork on Turkic-Mongolic-Sinitic-Tibetic language contact in Inner and Central Asia and has directed a number of cooperative documentation and archiving projects, including on Salar (1991-1993, Fulbright), Kazakh (1993, Fulbright), Uyghur dialectology (2002-2003, ACLS), Salar, Monguor, and Wutun (2000-2005 VW-DOBES), Kyrgyz folklore (2004, OSI), and most recently archaic German dialects in the American Midwest (2005-present). Internationally she acts as a consultant on endangered language documentation and multimedia annotation and archiving (International Metadata Initiative (IMDI), 2000; UNESCO Ad hoc Endangered Language Committee Co-chair, 2001-2002; Electronic Metastructures in Endangered Language Data (EMELD), (2001-present).
At the University of Kansas, Professor Dwyer teaches courses on ethnicity and languages of China and Central Asia, linguistic field methods, linguistic data processing, and ethnopoetics. She initiated an academic-year Uyghur language program and established the foundation for an exchange program with Manas University in Kyrgyzstan.
Recent publications:
2004. The Turkic Languages.
Encyclopedia of Asia.
Great Barrington, Ma.: Berkshire Reference Works.
2005. The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy,
and Political Discourse.
Policy Studies 15.
Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington (Online pdf: washington.eastwestcenter.org).
2005. Forthcoming. Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis. In Gippert, Jost, Ulrike Mosel and Nikolaus Himmelmann, eds.
Fundamentals of Language Documentation: A Handbook.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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