Tehota’kerá:ton, Dr. Jeremy D. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
Tehota’kerá:ton earned his Doctorate in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo in 2020. His dissertation collected, organized and presented a wide variety of language teaching and learning methods deemed effective for the Mohawk language for ease of use by Mohawk language teachers. |
Dr. Kari A. B. Chew, Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020)
Her current research focuses on adult Indigenous language learners, Indigenous language curriculum, and the role of technology in Indigenous language education (e.g. by connecting learners who live outside their communities to their languages). While her Postdoc Fellowship concluded in the summer of 2020, she remains involved with the NEȾOLṈEW̱ Partnership as a collaborator. She also is a co-investigator on the SSHRC Connection Grant project “Exploring Innovative and Successful Adult Language Learning Methods in Canadian and US Indigenous Communities” (2018-2021). |
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10977
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10962
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10728
Nicki Benson, Research Assistant
Nicki is a PhD student in Indigenous Language Revitalization under the supervision of Dr. Onowa McIvor. Her doctoral research will explore success factors in adult immersion education for language reclamation through a case study with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Language Immersion Program. Nicki is the founder of Esperanza Education, the facilitator of the Spanish for Social Justice Teacher Network, and the mamá of a bilingual two-year-old. |
Robyn Giffen, Research Assistant
As a NEȾOLṈEW̱ research assistant, Robyn currently contributes to the NILLA project. She has an M.A. from the University of British Columbia specializing in Linguistic Anthropology and has worked on Indigenous language revitalization projects in Ghana, Alaska, and Vancouver, BC. Robyn is now a PhD student in Education at UVIC, focusing on Indigenous Language Revitalization. Her research project will analyze and evaluate the Where Are Your Keys (WAYK) teaching and learning method. |
Zola Kell, Research Assistant
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Adam Stone, Research Assistant
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Acknowledgement of previous team members
Many wonderful people have contributed to the work of NEȾOLṈEW̱ over the years. They are (in alphabetical order of last name): |