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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

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Education
In progress Ph.D Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2006 M.A. Linguistics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
Thesis: Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs.
2006 Spring School on Linguistic Diversity. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. March 20-28.
1998 M.F.A. Sculpture, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.
1994 B.F.A. Sculpture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Teaching

University Courses:
University of Alaska Fairbanks:
    Technology for Alaska Native Languages (instructor of record, S'05)
Wayne State University, Detroit:
    Basic Concepts in Linguistics (substitute lecturer, 2 classes, W'05)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
    Sculpture I (instructor of record, W'99, S'99, F'00)
    Figure Drawing I (instructor of record, F'99, W'00)
College for Creative Studies, Detroit:
    Foundation Drawing I (instructor of record, F'99, F'01)
    Foundation Drawing II (instructor of record, W'01)

Workshops and Training Seminars:
2008 "Discourse Transcription." Workshop at the Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. Santa Barbara, California. 8 hours.
2008 "Web and WIKIs for Language Documentation." Workshop at the Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. Santa Barbara, California. 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.

Other Employment

Language Technology Consulting:
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, Ypsilanti, MI).
2007 Consultant for Multi-Tree (an NSF-funded project of the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Ypsilanti, MI).
2005 Technology consultant for the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, AK. Responsibilities included cataloging Dena'ina language audio collection.

Research Assistantships:
2007-2008 Research assistant to Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara. Topic: Subtractive word-formation processes.
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.

Publications
Forthcoming 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Current Projects
Under review Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. Correlates to middle marking in Dena'ina iterative verbs.
In progress a Berez, Andrea L. and Daisy Rosenblum (eds.). Fieldwork and linguistic theory in American Indigenous languages. (edited volume)
In progress b Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. In defense of corpus linguistics: A behavioral profile analysis to polysemous get in English.
In progress c Kari, James and Andrea L. Berez. Dach' Dena'inaq' Qeyegh Nuqelnixch'/They Tell Us About This in Dena'ina. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.

Presentations
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 Mapping grammar in discourse: A proposal for exploring Ahtna Athabaskan directionals with GIS. Invited talk, Institute for Language and Information Technology, Ypsilanti, MI. March 25.
2008c 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][handout]
2008d 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]
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.
2007c Technology in an endangered language setting. Invited talk, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, Chicago, IL. April 12.
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]

Grants & Awards
2008 Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, for fieldwork in Alaska.
2008 Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum, for fieldwork in Alaska.
2008 Pacific Rim Research Program Minigrant, University of California, for fieldwork in Alaska.
2007 Robert Oswalt Fund for Endangered Languages, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California Berkeley, for fieldwork in Alaska.
2007 Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum, for fieldwork in Alaska.
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 for outstanding undergraduate work, University of Michigan School of Art and Design.

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

Computer Programming & Software
Macintosh, Windows, Dreamweaver, Flash, ELAN, Transcriber, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, ColdFusion, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Javascript, RSS.
Tool Design:
  CuPED (Customizable Presentation of Elan Documents): Presentation format creation tool for in-community use with Elan text-audio and text-video alignments. Designed proposal and prototype.
  OntoElan: Links Elan annotations to the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). Team member.
Additional Multimedia Linguistic Projects (not listed under 'Publications'):
2007 Development of Nay'dinii'aa Na' Kenaege' Ahtna Athabaskan language website.
2007 Development of multimedia CD-ROM of Ahtna Athabaskan narratives. [with Siri Tuttle and James Kari]
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]
Ongoing Webmastering for the following linguistics-related websites: Qenaga.org, Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference, NAIL, WAIL.

Professional Activities

Workshop/Working Group Participation:
2006 Ahtna Language Workshop. Gulkana, AK. February 15-16.
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 & Poverty (received travel grant). Ithaca, NY. October 14-16.
2005 Dena'ina Language Workshop. Nondalton, AK. November 4-6.

Professional Service:
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.
2006-2007 Co-moderator of Academics with Long Distance Partners online discussion forum. [with Marie Klopfenstein]
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.

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)

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: 06 May 2008

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