Stephanie Joy Gamble Morse
EDUCATION
Currently a 1st year PhD Student at University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
MA Linguistics–Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
(graduation pending following final revision of thesis)
Thesis: “Morphology of Plant Names in Anishinaabemowin and their Relationship to Folk Taxonomies”
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
“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. To be given 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)
Relevant Language Experience
English – Native Speaker
French – Reading Proficient
Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe- Research Language
Tashelhiyt- Research Language
Mende- Research Language
RESEARCH AND FIELD TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Student, FIELD METHODS: TASHELHIYT—University of California, Santa Barbara 2009-2010
Student Editor,The LINGUIST LIST–Ypsilanti, MI 2007-2009
Projects worked on: LL-Map (ll-map.org), Student Portal, Updated LL- Cookbook, Conference Posting
Student, INFIELD 2008–University of California, Santa Barbara- Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2008
Archive Spelunker, MAP DIGITIZATION PROJECT Alaska Native Languages Center – Fairbanks, AK August 2008
Student Researcher, Annis Water Resources Institute, Muskegon, MI Summer 2003
MEMBERSHIPS
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Society for the Stabilization of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Jacobs Research Fund. “Preserving Traditions Plant Knowledge in Odawa/Ottawa”:
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
Graduate Assistantship—Eastern Michigan University (2008-2009)
Michigan Federated Garden Club Scholarship—Grand Valley State University (2004-2005)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Co-Organizer 13th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL)
Session Chair Michigan Linguistic Society 38th Annual Meeting.