Andrea L. Berez
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

Email: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu
WWW: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/index.html

Education
In progress Ph.D Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Advanced to candidacy: March 2009.
Dissertation: Discourse, landscape and spatial cognition in Ahtna.
Advisor: Marianne Mithun.
2006 M.A. Linguistics, Wayne State University.
Thesis: Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs. Advisor: Martha Ratliff.
1998 M.F.A. Sculpture, New York Academy of Art.
1994 B.F.A. Sculpture, University of Michigan.

Publications
To appear a Berez, Andrea L., Daisy Rosenblum and Jean Mulder (eds.). Fieldwork and linguistic analysis in Indigenous languages of the Americas. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication.
To appear b Andrea L. Berez and Daisy Rosenblum. Introduction. In To appear a.
To appear c Ayla Applebaum and Andrea L. Berez. A theory is only as good as the data: Casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
To appear d Holton, Gary, Andrea L. Berez and Sadie Williams. Dena'ina Archiving, Training & Access. UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation. Paris: UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme.
Submitted Berez, Andrea L. Intonation as a genre distinguishing feature in Ahtna: A quantitative approach.
2010 Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. Correlates to middle marking in Dena'ina iterative verbs. International Journal of American Linguistics.
2009 Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. In defense of corpus linguistics: A behavioral profile analysis to polysemous get in English. In Moran, Steven, Darren S. Tanner and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 Northwest Linguistics Conference. Seattle, WA: Department of Linguistics.
2007a Berez, Andrea L. Software review of EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN). Language Documentation and Conservation 1(2): 283-9. [online, pdf]
2007b Kari, James and Andrea L. Berez (eds.). Inland Dena'ina Keywords: Lime Village Dialect, by Helen Dick. 28 pp. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center.
2007c Berez, Andrea L., Suzanne Gessner, Leslie Saxon and Siri Tuttle (eds.). Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 6: Working Papers in Athabascan Linguistics. 170 pp. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
2007d Berez, Andrea L. Middle marking in Dena'ina iterative verbs. In Berez, et. al. (eds.). Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 6, p. 21-29. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
2006a Berez, Andrea L. and Gary Holton. Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community. In Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger (eds.). Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork, p. 69-86. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [view on Sydney eScholarship repository]
2006b Holton, Gary, Andrea L. Berez and Sadie Williams. Building the Dena'ina language archive. In Dyson, L., M. Hendricks and S. Grant (eds.). Information Technology and Indigenous People, p. 205-209. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group.
2005a Dena'ina Language Archive and Dena'ina Qenaga website. [http://qenaga.org] [with Gary Holton & Sadie Williams]
2005b From cassette to easy-access software: Dena'ina. E-MELD School of Best Practice website. [http://emeld.org/school/case/denaina/index.html]
2004 Shoebox legacy data: Mocoví. E-MELD School of Best Practice website. [http://emeld.org/school/case/mocovi/index.html]
2003 Berez, Andrea L. Book notice for Multilingualism in Italy Past and Present, by A. Lepschy & A. Tosi. Diachronica 20(2):386.

Presentations

Invited Presentations:
2009a "Linguistic fieldwork: Getting started as a student." University of Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Group. January 27. [view]
2009b, c "Beyond Frog Stories: Speakers' attention to path and location in Ahtna discourse." University of Melbourne Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, July 24. University of Sydney Department of Linguistics Seminar Series, July 27. [view]
2009d "Indexing genre in Ahtna: A quantitative look into the intonation of chatting and storytelling." Eastern Michigan University Linguistics Program, December 8.
2008 "Mapping grammar in discourse: A proposal for exploring Ahtna Athabaskan directionals with GIS." Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University. March 25.
2007 "Technology in an endangered language setting." University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. April 12.

Other Presentations:
2009a "Preserving geolinguistic documentation: From paper maps to GIS at the ANLC." Part of special session "Advanced dissemination and linguistic applications of geocoded field data." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. March 12-14. [with Gary Holton, Hunter Lockwood and Stephanie Morse] [view/listen]
2009b "Software demonstration: CuPED (Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents)." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. March 12-14. [with Christopher Cox] [view/listen]
2009c "Intonation and intonation units in Ahtna oral performance." Part of "Unlocking oral performance in Indigenous languages" panel. 11th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia. July 12-17. [view]
2009d "A theory is only as good as the data: Casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation." Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. 13-14 November. [with Ayla Applebaum] [view]
2008a "Offering multimedia training in the speaker community." Part of Open Language Archive Community tutorial "Mobilizing linguistic resources within speaker communities." Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. January 3-6. [view]
2008b "In defense of corpus-based methods: A behavioral profile analysis of polysemous get in English." Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle. May 3-4. [with Stefan Th. Gries] [view handout]
2008c "The importance of technological standards and training in language documentation." Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Description at the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden. September 30-October 1. [with Nicholas Thieberger] [view]
2008d "Middle voice marking in Dena’ina iteratives: How syntax and semantics interact." 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language, Cleveland, OH. October 18-20. [with Stefan Th. Gries]
2007a "Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs." Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, CA. January 4-7. [view handout]
2007b "How do I do it in XML?! Using ELAN to create structured linguistic data." UCSB linguistics department colloquium series, Santa Barbara, CA. February 15.
2006a "Using digital audio resources for language documentation and revitalization." 32nd Bilingual Multicultural Education/Equity Conference, Fairbanks, AK. February 8-10. [with Gary Holton & Sadie Williams] [view]
2006b "Creating annotated corpora at the Alaska Native Language Center." Ethnographic E-Research Annotation Conference, Melbourne, Australia. February 15-17. [with Gary Holton] [view]
2006c "Dena'ina Athabaskan nu- middle voice verbs: A closer look." Leipzig Students’ Conference in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. March 25-26.
2006d "Dena'ina language and community online: Qenaga.org and Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga." Athabascan Languages Conference, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. June 13-15. [with Alan Boraas, Gary Holton, Sadie Williams, James Kari, Helen Aristar-Dry and Veronica Grondona] [view]
2006e "Designing community-tech workflows: A field linguist's guide to putting language technology into the hands of speakers." E-MELD Workshop on Tools and Standards, Lansing, MI. June 20-22. [with Gary Holton] [view]
2006f "Expectations and results of community-based language technology training in Alaska." Native American Indigenous Languages study group, University of California, Santa Barbara. November 20. [with Alan Boraas]
2006g "Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community." Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork conference, Sydney, Australia. December 4-6. [with Gary Holton] [listen!]
2005a "Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access: A project report." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, CA. January 6-9. [with Gary Holton & Sadie Williams]
2005b "Integrating Dena'ina culture and language into the curriculum." 31st Bilingual Multicultural Education/Equity Conference, Anchorage, AK. February 9-11. [with Gary Holton, Donita Peter & Alan Boraas]
2005c "DATA: making language materials both archival and accessible." Poster presentation at the First Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, Salt Lake City, UT. April 7-10.
2004a "IPA, Unicode, and word processing for linguists." Wayne State University Symposium on Technological Tools for Linguists, Detroit, MI. February 10.
2004b "The typology of noun classes and definite articles." Wayne State University Student Colloquium, Detroit, MI. April 23.
2004c "OntoElan: Linking the GOLD ontology to linguistic annotations." E-MELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, Detroit, MI. July 15-18. [with Anthony Aristar, Yu Deng, Artem Chemboko, Shiyong Lu & Farhad Fotouhi]

Teaching

University Courses:
University of California, Santa Barbara:
F08 Introduction to First Language Acquisition (TA)
W09 Language and Linguistics (TA)
W09 Field Methods (guest lecturer)
F09 Discourse Transcription (guest lecturer)
University of Hawai`i, Mānoa:
W09 Advanced Methods in Language Documentation (guest lecturer)
Prince William Sound Community College, Glennallen:
F08 Introduction to Digital Skills for Language Documentation, Maintenance and Revitalization
University of Alaska, Fairbanks:
S05 Technology for Alaska Native Languages
Wayne State University:
W05 Basic Concepts in Linguistics (guest lecturer)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
W99, S00, F00 Sculpture I
F99, W00 Figure Drawing I
College for Creative Studies, Detroit:
F00, F01 Foundation Drawing I
W01 Foundation Drawing II

Workshops and Training Seminars:
2009 Workshop on digital preservation of linguistic resources. Sponsored by the "Cimaan: Anishnaabemowin Learning Community" partnership between the Centre for Aboriginal Initiative and First Nations House (University of Toronto) and the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, Toronto. 1.5 days.
2008 "Aligning Text to Audio and Video Using ELAN." Workshop at the Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 hours. [download course materials, including coursepack and sample sets]
2008 "Web and WIKIs for Language Documentation." Workshop at the Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 hours. [with John Foreman and Te Taka Keegan]
2007 Language technology/multimedia workshops (2) for Ahtna language activists. Chickaloon, AK. 4 days.
2007 "Technology in Interactional Analysis." University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. Included instruction in transcription methods of spoken discourse as developed by John W. Du Bois (UCSB) and the use of ELAN software in aligning media and transcriptions. April 10-13. 8 hours.
2007 Advanced language technology training seminar. Fairbanks, AK. 3 days.

Grants
2009 Institute of Museum and Library Services: "Ahtna Tape Digitization Project," awarded to the Ahtna Heritage Foundation. Primary grant writer.
2009 Pacific Rim Research Program Graduate Research Grant, University of California: "Discourse, Landscape and Spatial Cognition: Documenting Ahtna, an Endangered Language of Alaska." PI.
2009 First Nations Development Institute Native Youth and Culture Fund: "Yuu၂ Tene" culture camp improvement grant, awarded to the Ahtna Heritage Foundation. Primary grant writer.
2008 Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society: "Documenting the discourse structure of Ahtna." PI.
2008 Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum: "Dissertation fieldwork: A corpus of Ahtna Athabaskan discourse." PI.
2008 Pacific Rim Research Program Minigrant, University of California: "Preparatory fieldtrip to Alaska for a dissertation on Ahtna discourse." PI.
2007 Robert Oswalt Fund for Endangered Languages, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California Berkeley, for fieldwork in Alaska. PI.
2007 Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum: "Outer Inlet Dena'ina conversation pilot project." PI.

Fellowships and Awards
2009-2010 Graduate Humanities Research Program Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2007-2008 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2006-2007 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2006-2011 Linguistics Department Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2006 Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto (declined).
1996-1998 Merit scholarship, New York Academy of Art.
1994 BFA Award, University of Michigan School of Art and Design.

Language Technology Experience

Visiting Scholarship:
2009 Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University. Project: "Applying GIS to Ahtna Discourse Data." August-September.

Consulting:
2009 Consultant on the creation of local digital archives of linguistic and ethnographic recordings at Ahtna Heritage Foundation (Glennallen, AK).
2007-present Research Technician for Ahtna Texts grant. Creation of interactive multimedia CD-ROMs of archived Ahtna language recordings, transcriptions and translations (NSF grant 0553831, PI Siri Tuttle).
2008 Digitization of indigenous toponym maps at the Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks.
2008 Consultant on the creation of local digital archives of linguistic and ethnographic recordings at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (Tok, AK) and Ya Ne Dah Ah School (Chickaloon Village, AK).
2007 Development of XML schema for system of discourse transcriptions as developed by John W. Du Bois (UCSB).
2007 Consultant for LL-MAP, an NSF-funded project of the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University.
2007 Consultant for Multi-Tree, an NSF-funded project of the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University.
2005 Cataloging of Dena'ina language recording collection for the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, AK.

Research Assistantships:
2004-2006 Research assistant for Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access (DATA) grant. Responsibilities included development and maintenance of a digital archive of Dena'ina Athabaskan language materials, including Oracle database design and user interfaces; development and maintenance of Qenaga.org, a website designed to serve as a community access point for Dena'ina heritage speakers; training of Dena'ina community members in the use of language technology; conducting linguistic fieldwork (NSF-OPP grant 0326805, PIs Helen Aristar-Dry and Gary Holton).
2003-2006 Research assistant for the LINGUIST List. Responsibilities included posting conference announcements and calls for papers to listserv of 18,000+ subscribers; maintaining conference database; maintaining LINGUIST List web pages; developing web pages for the E-MELD School of Best Practice (NSF-SES grant 1099652, PI Helen Aristar-Dry).
2003 Research assistant for Walter Fitzherbert Edwards, Wayne State University. Topic: African American Vernacular English in Detroit.

Tool Design:
Under devlopment CuPED (Customizable Presentation of Elan Documents): Presentation format creation tool for in-community use with Elan text-audio and text-video alignments. [with Christopher Cox]
2004 OntoElan: Links ELAN annotations to the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). Team member.

Additional Multimedia Linguistic Projects:
2007 Development of Nay'dinii'aa Na' Kenaege' Ahtna Athabaskan language website.
2007 Editor for Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga/The Kenai People's Language [website by Alan Boraas and Michael Christian].
2006 Development of Bac'its'aadi/Salmon Boy Story. Time-aligned Ahtna stories on interactive CD-ROM. Pilot project. [with Siri Tuttle]
2004 Gwich'in Athabaskan Verb Paradigms. Interactive CD-ROM. [with Kathy Sikorski & Sadie Williams]

Professional Activities

Conference Sessions Organized:
2009 Two organized sessions: "GIS 1: Methods and case studies in geographically-referenced language documentation" and "GIS 2: Advanced dissemination and linguistic applications of geocoded field data." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. March 12-14.

Workshop/Working Group Participation:
2009 Bootcamp: "Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R." UC Santa Barbara. August 5-10.
2006 Ahtna Language Workshop. Gulkana, AK. February 15-16.
2006 Spring School on Linguistic Diversity. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. March 20-28.
2006 Dena'ina Language Institute. Kenai, AK. May 30-June 16.
2006 Working group on Resource Transformation at the E-MELD Workshop on Tools and Standards. East Lansing, MI. June 20-22.
2006 Working group on Archiving and Fieldwork at the Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics. East Lansing, MI. June 22-23.
2005 Dena'ina Language Institute. Kenai, AK. May 30-June 16.
2005 Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty (received travel grant). Ithaca, NY. October 14-16.
2005 Dena'ina Language Workshop. Nondalton, AK. November 4-6.

Professional Service:
2009-present Panelist, Wiley-Blackwell Language & Linguistics Compass discussion forum on the LINGUIST List.
2007-2008 Graduate Student Representative to UCSB Linguistics Department faculty meetings.
2007 Organizing committee for the 10th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California, Santa Barbara. May 11-13.
2004 Organizing committee for E-MELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice. Detroit, MI. July 15-18.
2004 Organizing committee for Wayne State University Symposium on Technological Tools for Linguists. Detroit, MI. February 10.
2004-2008 Webmastering for the following linguistics-related websites: Qenaga.org, Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference, NAIL, WAIL.

Professional Organization Membership:
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (since 2004)
Linguistic Society of America (since 2005)
Association for Linguistic Typology (since 2006)
Alaska Anthropological Association (since 2007)
International Pragmatics Association (since 2008)

Languages
Native English.
Proficient Italian.
Reading French, Spanish.
Fieldwork Ahtna (Athabaskan), Alaska, 2008, 2009.
Dena'ina (Athabaskan), Alaska, 2005, 2006, 2007.
Kannada (Dravidian), California, 2007, 2008.
Khalkha Mongolian, field methods course, 2006-7.
Ottawa (Algonquian), field methods course, 2004.
Otherwise Studied German, Gwich'in (Athabaskan), Hebrew, Ladin Fascian (Rhaeto-Romance), Sanskrit.

Computer Programming & Software
Proficient in (alphabetical order):
  Adobe Creative Suite, audio/video editing software (various), ColdFusion, CSS, ELAN, FileMaker Pro, Flash, HTML, Javascript, R, RSS, SQL, Transcriber, XML, XSLT.

Selected Art Exhibitions and Publications
2004 A Little Mental Yoga, quad-weave fabric of original design, published in Fiberarts Design Book 7, ed. by S.M. Kieffer. Asheville: Lark Books.
2003 Michigan League of Handweavers annual exhibition. Mardigian Library, Dearborn, MI. Second place prize.
2001 College for Creative Studies annual faculty exhibition. Detroit, MI.
1998 Thesis exhibition. New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.
1995 Giovani artisti group exhibition. Spazio Comunale, Florence, Italy.
1994 Tactile articulation group exhibition. The Commons, Ann Arbor, MI.


Last updated: 20 November 2009