Stephanie Joy Gamble Morse
Education
Currently a 4th year PhD Student at University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
B.S. Natural Resources Management–Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (2005)
Areas of Concentration: Forest Ecology, Botany
Capstone Project: Investigated Interest in Carpooling at Grand Valley State University
Publications and Presentations
Review of Defying Maliseet Language Death. To appear.
“A usage-based definition of language documentation”
Poster to be presented with Bradley McDonnell at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation held in Honolulu, Hawaii. February 28th-March 3rd, 2013.
“Word order in Anishinaabemowin ditransitive clauses”.
Presented at SSILA, held in Boston, Massachusetts. January 4-7th, 2013.
“Word order in Anishinaabemowin ditransitive clauses”.
Presented at the 44th Algonquian Conference held in Chicago, Illinois. October 25th-28th, 2012.
“Archival resources for Anishinaabemowin plant names”
Presented at Anishinaabemowin Teg held in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. March 28th-April 1st, 2012.
Editor of: Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics Volume 21: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. November, 2011.
“Historical changes in the coordinating conjunctions gaye and miinawaa in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)”
Presented at the 43rd Algonquian Conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan. October 22nd, 2011.
“The Problem of Syncope in Anishinaabemowin Dictionary Creation”
Presented at the “Dialogue on Dialect Standardization” session at “Methods in Dialectology 14″. The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. August 5th, 2011.
“What do you get when you cross a geek, ecologist and a linguist”
Presentation to the Linguistics Club at University of California, Santa Barbara. Presented on May 5th, 2011.
“Documenting Plant Names: Challenges and Solutions”
Paper presented at the ICLDC conference at University of Hawai’i, Manoa. February 13th, 2011.
“A Brief Introduction to Tashlhit”
Colloquium at University of California, Santa Barbara, November 18th, 2010. (presented with Allison Adelman, Brendan Barnwell, Chris Donlay and Don Daniels)
“Morphology and Folk Taxonomies in Anishinaabemowin Plant Names”
Presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2010.
“Building Plant Names in Anishinaabemowin”
Colloquium at University of California, Santa Barbara. February 25, 2010.
“Greater than the Sum of their Parts: Building Plant Names in Ojibwe”
Paper presented at the 41st Annual Algonquian Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 2009.
“Preserving Geolinguistic Documentation: From Paper Maps to GIS at the ANLC”
Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Hawai’i 2009 (presented with Andrea Berez, Gary Holton and Hunter Lockwood)
“Towards an XML Schema for Language Documentation”
Paper presented at the 39th Annual Michigan Linguistics Society meeting, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 2008 (presented with Ania Kubisz and Evelyn Richter)
Grants and Fellowships
Endangered Language Fund. “Documenting Odawa Conversation”: $2,840
Jacobs Research Fund. “Preserving Traditions Plant Knowledge in Odawa”: $2,500
Department of Linguistics Mini-Grant (University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Linguistics, 2010): $1,053
Eugene Cota-Robels Fellowship—University of California, Santa Barbara (2009-2014)
Graduate Fellowship—Eastern Michigan University (2007-2009)
Awards and Scholarships
Nominated for 2012-13 Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
UCSB Residence Halls Association–Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2011-2012)
Graduate Assistantship—Eastern Michigan University (2008-2009)
Michigan Federated Garden Club Scholarship—Grand Valley State University (2004-2005)
Teaching Experience
Ling 106 (Phonetics): Fall 2011 and Fall 2012
Ling 50 (Language and Power): Winter 2013
Ling 20 (Intro to Linguistics): Winter 2012
Research Languages
English – Native Speaker
French – Reading Proficient
Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe- Research Language
Tashelhiyt- Research Language
Mende- Research Language
Conference Organization and Service
Co-Organizer 14th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). April 15th-16th, 2011.
Co-Organizer 13th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). April 3oth-May 1st, 2010.
Graduate Student Representative. University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics. 2010-2011.
(Represents graduate student needs and views at the faculty meetings)
Space Committee Member. University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics. 2010-2011.
(Planning the reconfiguration of old spaces and addition of new spaces for the Linguistics Department)
Professional Membership
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Society for the Stabilization of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
North American Indigenous Languages Study Group (NAIL) at UCSB
Secretary of the Fieldwork and Archiving of Indigenous Languages study group at UCSB
Student member of LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation