2019 Ken Hale Prize

SSILA is happy to announce the 2019 Ken Hale Prize was awarded to Daryl Baldwin and the Myaamia Center at Miami University of Ohio. The Ken Hale prize is presented in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of Indigenous languages in the Americas.

Funding: Kinkade Language & Culture Fund (KLF) / Jacobs Research Fund (JRF)

The Kinkade Language and Culture Fund (KLF) and the Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) provide support for projects involving fieldwork with living peoples of North, Central and South America which result in publication or other dissemination of information about the fieldwork. Priority is given to research on endangered cultures and languages, and to research on the Pacific Northwest. Projects focusing on archival research have low priority, but we welcome proposals to digitize, transcribe and translate old materials that might otherwise be lost or become inaccessible. Relevance of the project to contemporary theoretical issues in anthropology and linguistics is also a criterion used in evaluating proposals.

Extended Deadline: Call for Proposals to Host CoLang 2022

Greetings from Susan Gehr and Jean-Luc Pierite, the co-conveners for CoLang 2019-2020 Advisory Circle. You are receiving this email if you have participated in InField 2008, 2010 and/or CoLang 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 as either a student or facilitator/instructor.

On behalf of the Advisory Circle, we are formally soliciting expressions of interest for hosting the 2022 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang). These should take the form of a two--to-three page proposal that minimally

Support: Alberta Language Technology Lab

The AlbertaLanguage Technology Lab (ALTLab) at the Department of Linguistics, Universityof Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) orMA (2 years) level in its graduate program, to start September 2020 under theresearch project: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages,funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) PartnershipGrant in 2019 – 2026, see: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c.

Extended Deadline: Call for Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series

The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.

CFP: Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.

Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts

A paper based on the results from the Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts has now been published. You may find it here as an open access paper, and also attached. The paper was published in 2019 during the International Year of Indigenous Languages. I want to acknowledge all of your contributions without which we could not have made the observations we have shared in the paper. We hope that the paper will be a meaningful contributions towards advancing language revitalization efforts worldwide. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and the world.

Job: Assistant / Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

The Department of Religious Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a position in Maya religion in the context of Mesoamerican history and cultures at the level of tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor with tenure. We seek a scholar whose work contributes to the discipline of Religious Studies, with a focus on questions of indigeneity and the complex interactions of religious traditions from the period before European contact to the present. The position will begin in August 2020 and salary will be commensurate with rank and experience.

Job: Assistant, Associate Professor, Minority Languages and Dialects (Cluster Hire), University of Wisconsin-Madison

This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, to start August 2020. Applications at the associate professor level may be considered in exceptional cases. The search is for a job candidate whose research focuses on linguistic, cognitive, developmental, sociolinguistic, and/or educational issues associated with the use of minority languages/dialects. In the US, "minority language" refers to languages other than English; "dialect" refers to distinctive variants of English spoken by communities defined by region, racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, or other factors.