Education
  Ph.D. 1977 Indiana University, Anthropology (major) and Linguistics (minor)
  M.A. 1976 Indiana University, Anthropology
  B.A. 1971 Columbia College, Columbia University, Oriental Studies and Comparative Literature
 
 
Positions Held
  Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2000-present
  Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, July 1985-June 2000
  Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, July 1978-June 1985
  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, January-June, 1978

Areas of Interest:

Anthropology and the Verbal Arts   Language Ideologies
Language Contact   Lexicography of Native American Languages
Language and Identity   Language Maintenance and Renewal
Ethnography of Communication    

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

forth-coming Co-authored with Rosalie Bethel and Jennifer F. Reynolds TAITADUHAAN: WESTERN MONO WAYS OF SPEAKING (CD-ROM) Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press
forth-coming Edited by William Frawley, Kenneth Hill, and Pamela Munro "Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy: Reflections from Western Mono" Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of The Americas, University of California Press.
2001   Review of Walking Where We Lived by Gaylen D. Lee The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7:373
2001 Co-authored with Jennifer F. Reynolds Using Multimedia in Language Renewal: Observations from making the CD-ROM TAITADUHAAN: WESTERN MONO WAYS OF SPEAKING. In Kenneth Hale and Leanne Hinton, eds., Green Book of Language Revitalization, pp. 312-25
2000 Identity (In a special issue of the journal "Lexicon for the New Millenium," ed. Alessandro Duranti.) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9:111-4
2000 Regimenting Languages Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities, pp. 1-34
2000 Language Ideologies in the Expression and Representation of Arizona Tewa Ethnic Identity Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities, pp. 329-59
2000 Paul V. Kroskrity, ed. Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research
1999 Language Ideologies, Language Shift, and the Imagination of a Western Mono Community: the Recontextualization of a Coyote Story Language and Ideology, ed. Jef Verschueren, pp. 270-89
1998 Arizona Tewa Kiva Speech as a Manifestation of a Dominant Language Ideology. Language Ideologies, Practice and Theory, Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity, eds., pp. 103-22
1998 Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity, eds. Language Ideologies, Theory and Practice New York: Oxford University Press

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Academic Research

1973-1984, 1986-7, 1989, 1991-3 Linguistic, Anthropological, Cultural, and Ethnohistorical Research in Tewa Village, First Mesa Hopi Reservation (Northeastern Arizona).
Summer 1977 Areal-linguistic research on Arizona Tewa and Navajo conducted in Tewa Village and Klagetoh, Arizona.
1980-1986, 1992-present Linguistic Anthropological research on Western Mono in the central California communities of Northfolk, Auberry, and Sycamore. Lexicographical Research designed to produce both practical language materials and descriptive linguistic studies.
1991-present Documentation and Analysis of Western Mono Traditional Narratives, and their role in language renewal efforts.

Related Experience

1985 to present Chair, Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies
July 1987-June 1989 Co-project Director (with Duane Champagne), U.S. Department of Education Grant: "American Indian Leadership: Quality for the Nineties"

Contact Information

Department of Anthropology

Haines 329A

(310) 825-6237

paulvk@ucla.edu