Colleen Fitzgerald

Colleen M. Fitzgerald is an American linguist who specializes in phonology, as well as language documentation and revitalization, especially with Native American languages.[1]

Colleen Fitzgerald
OccupationAmerican linguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
Academic work
InstitutionsNorth Dakota State University
Main interestsPhonology, Language documentation, Language revitalization

Career and research

She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1997 at the University of Arizona.[2] Her dissertation focused on prosody in Tohono O'odham, an Uto-Aztecan language.[3] She has published on Tohono O'odham, as well as other languages. Her other publications are on the topic of service learning in linguistics, including in indigenous language revitalization courses.

Fitzgerald is the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity at North Dakota State University. Previously she was Associate Vice President for research at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi,[4] and Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL[5][6] the University of Texas at Arlington where she directed the Native American Languages Lab.[7] She formerly served as chair of the department.[8]

Fitzgerald served as Director of the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Research,[9] or CoLang 2014.[10][11] This was the fourth iteration of this international training workshop in language documentation and revitalization.[12] With linguist Mary Linn, she co-directed the 2012 and 2014 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshops.[13]

Honors and distinctions

In 2021, Fitzgerald was inducted both as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[14][15] In 2017 she was an invited plenary speaker at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, talking on, "The Sounds of Indigenous Language Revitalization."[16]

From 2015 to 2019 Fitzgerald served as the program director for the Documenting Endangered Languages program at the National Science Foundation.[17]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Colleen M. Fitzgerald - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  2. "Alumni, 1974-to Present | The Department of Linguistics". linguistics.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  3. University of Arizona UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/288889
  4. Christi, Texas A&M University-Corpus. "Staff Directory Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi". Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  5. "Department of Linguistics and TESOL Faculty".
  6. "The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington".
  7. "Native American Languages of the Southwest - Linguistics".
  8. "Project aims to protect vanishing language".
  9. "Institute aims to keep languages alive".
  10. Native Times, 02 June 2014, http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/culture/9988-ut-arlington-to-host-international-conference-on-native-american-language
  11. "CoLang- Projects with Native American Languages of the Southwest - Linguistics & TESOL - UT Arlington".
  12. "Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages".
  13. "Breath of Life". Native American Languages.
  14. "2021 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  15. "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  16. Linguist Society of America, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/session/invited-plenary-address-colleen-fitzgerald
  17. "Colleen Fitzgerald | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
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