ANLC Faculty and Staff
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Tom Alton, Editor413 Brooks, 474-6577, fntla@uaf.edu Tom has been editor at ANLC since 1989. He coordinates the publication of dictionaries, grammars, narrative collections, and research papers. Tom earned a B.A. from UAF, an M.A from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. from UAF. |
Irene Solomon-Arnold, Language Specialist306A Brooks, 474-6263, fnila@uaf.edu As Tanacross Language Specialist Irene teaches courses in her Native Tanacross language, produces pedagogical materials, and engages in language documentation projects. In 1994 she became the first student to receive an A.A.S. in Native Language Education from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has authored several publications, including Tanacross Language Lesssons (1994) and Tanacross Phrase & Conversation Lessons (2003). She continues to be actively involved in Native language revitalization and currently coordinates the Family Immersion Program at the Tanana Chiefs Conference. |
Anna Berge, Associate Professor421 Brooks, 474-5351, ffamb@uaf.edu Anna received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. She has specialized in West Greenlandic and Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) and does theoretical and descriptive work in syntax and discourse. She is currently working on comparative Eskimo-Aleut linguistics, Aleut language documentation, and Aleut language learning materials. |
 Ronald H. Brower Sr., Instructor 321 Brooks, 474-6606, ffrhb@uaf.edu Ronald H. Brower Sr. joined the Alaska Native Language Center in August of 2006. Ronald is a certified expert in Inupiaq. |
Walkie Charles, Instructor311 Brooks, 474-7170, ffwc@uaf.edu Growing up with English as my second language, I've been fascinated with languages even before I had an understanding of what fascination was. I speak both Norton Sound Kotlik and Yukon dialects of Yup'ik. My interest for languages led me to pursue the English language, though challenging in the earlier years of childhood, but I was determined to learn it. This determination led me to a teaching degree through which I gained access into the Fairbanks School District. I taught for several years, then went to graduate school. When I returned, I taught at the University level, then back with the public school arena, and recently back at the University of Alaska as instructor of Yup'ik Eskimo. It never ceases to amaze me how a once-oral tradition like Yup'ik can now be taught and learned by people in a way any foreign language is learned. |
Gary
Holton, Associate Professor306B Brooks, 474-6585, gary.holton@uaf.edu Gary is currently working on a documentation project for the Tanacross Athabascan language, spoken in the area of Tanacross, Dot Lake, Healy Lake and Tok. His interests lie in the areas of linguistic description and language revitalization. Gary holds a B.S. degree from UAF and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
Steve Jacobson, Professor427 Brooks, 474-6583, ffsaj@uaf.edu First trained in mathematics in college, Steve Jacobson later studied Yup'ik Eskimo at UAF with Irene Reed after spending time in a Yup'ik village. He regularly teaches classes on Central Yup'ik Eskimo, and occasionally on Siberian Yupik. Jacobson has produced or co-produced dictionaries of Central Yup'ik, and of Siberian Yupik, and a dialect atlas and study for Central Yup'ik. He has helped his wife Anna, a writer of fiction in her native Yup'ik language, to make tape-plus-booklet packages for learners of Central Yup'ik. Recently Jacobson has been working on Naukanski Yupik which bridges the gap between Central Yup'ik and Siberian Yupik. |
Larry Kaplan, Professor and Director425 Brooks, 474-6582, ffldk@uaf.edu Lawrence Kaplan is Professor of Linguistics and currently serves as Director of the Alaska Native Language Center. He teaches courses in Linguistics, such as Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, Historical Linguistics, and Language Policy and Planning, and also works as a linguist with the Inupiaq Eskimo language which is spoken in northern Alaska. Kaplan is compiling dictionaries of Inupiaq as well as working on texts and grammatical explanations for the language. He is also involved with training of Inupiaq language and culture instructors and works with programs in Native Language Education which offer degrees intended to prepare Native language teachers from Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada. |
James Kari, Professor Emeritus474-7874, ffjmk@uaf.edu Professor Emeritus James Kari retired from ANLC in 1997 but continues to work on several Alaska Native language projects. In the past twenty-five years he has done extensive linguistic work in many Athabascan languages including Ahtna, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Deg Hit'an, Holikachuk, Tanana, and Upper Tanana. |
Michael Krauss, Professor Emeritus227 Bunnell, 474-6588, ffmek@uaf.edu Michael Krauss joined the University of Alaska faculty in 1960, has been a professor of linguistics since 1968, and director of the Alaska Native Language Center since the center was established by state legislation in 1972 until his retirement in June 2000. |
Jeff Leer, Professor306E Brooks, 474-6587, jleer@earthlink.net Jeff Leer's commitment to Alaska Native languages began at age seven when he began to study Tlingit in his hometown of Juneau. Since 1973 he has been a linguist and teacher at ANLC, and in 1991 he completed his Ph.D. dissertation, The Schetic Categories of the Tlingit Verb, at the University of Chicago. He has learned to speak both Tlingit and Alutiiq, and has done extensive linguistic work in other languages, as well as in the field of comparative Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit. |
Olga Lovick, Postdoctoral Fellow411 Brooks, 474-5591, olga@lithophile.com Olga completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the Dena'ina language at the University of Cologne in 2005 and is currently working on the impact of ecological and social change in the Upper Tanana Athabascan region and how those changes relate to the language. She holds an IPY Postdoctoral Fellowship. |
Patrick E. Marlow, Assistant Professor306F Brooks, 474-7446, ffpem@uaf.edu Patrick Marlow is the Coordinator of the Denaqenage Career Ladder Program and the Athabascan Language Development Institute. A native of Iowa, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from University of Wisconsin Madison in 1989. He went on to do graduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he completed an M.A. in Linguistics in 1992 and his Ph.D. in 1997. |
John Ritter, Affiliate Professor1-867-633-5302, jritter@yknet.yk.ca John Ritter is the founding Director of the Yukon Native Language Centre. A native of West Virginia, he attended Michigan State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Languages and Literature. He then completed four years of graduate work in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Coming to Canada in the early 1970's to study the Gwich'in language, he spent three years in Ft. McPherson, Northwest Territories, where he worked closely with the late William Nersyoo, Sr. John documents and describes Yukon aboriginal languages, and participates in the training of Native Language Instructors and Specialists. He is particularly interested in place names and currently serves on the Yukon Geographical Place Names Board. |
 Rose Schumacher, Administrative Assistant IV423 Brooks, 474-7874, fnraf@uaf.edu Rose Schumacher joined the ANLC staff in September 2006 in the position of Administrative Generalist IV. Rose has completed course work at both the University of Alaska Juneau, and Fairbanks campuses, and has worked for UAF in various capacities over the past seventeen years. Rose is an avid runner and recently completed her fifth Equinox Marathon. |
Hishinlai' "Kathy" Sikorski, Instructor306C Brooks, 474-7875, k.sikorski@uaf.edu Nakhweenjit doonch'yàa? I've been working at the Alaska Native Language Center for the past twelve years. I will begin my M.A. in Education: Curriculum and Instruction this fall. As a Gwich'in Athabascan, I am interested in language maintenance and revitalization and have focused this interest through teacher training as part of the Denaqenage' Career Ladder Program. I wholeheartedly endorse the immersion method of teaching; therefore, all Gwich'in language classes are taught using this method. If you have any questions about my work, please do not hesitate to e-mail, call, or fax me. Mahsi' choo. |
Siri Tuttle, Assistant Professor419 Brooks, 474-5708, ffsgt1@uaf.edu Siri Tuttle is an Athabascan languages specialist with special interests in prosody - tone, stress and intonation. Her dissertation research on the Tanana language was done here in Fairbanks. Since receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998, Siri has studied San Carlos and Jicarilla Apache data at the Phonetics Laboratory at UCLA, and pursued questions in Navajo, Kaska, Ahtna and Galice Athabascan at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her present projects involve description and language revitalization in Ahtna and Lower Tanana. |
