The Team

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen webpage Linguist– Assistant Professor, Haverford College

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen is Assistant Professor of linguistics at Haverford College, with joint appointments at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 and has been working on colonial and modern Valley Zapotec since 1999. She is co-author of Cali Chiu? A Course on Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (Munro, Lillehaugen, and Lopez 2007) and publishes on the grammar of Zapotec in both its modern and colonial forms. In collaboration with other linguists, the Living Tongues Institute, and native Zapotec speakers, she is developing online Talking Dictionaries for Valley Zapotec language varieties. She received a NEH Summer Stipend in 2014 to translate the Zapotec language portions of Cordova's Arte and in August 2015 will begin a project translating a corpus of Colonial Valley Zapotec last wills and testaments supported by fellowships from the ACLS and the NEH.

George Aaron Broadwell webpage Linguist– Professor, University at Albany, SUNY

George Aaron Broadwell is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research focuses on the documentation of Native American languages, particularly in the southeastern United States and Oaxaca, Mexico. He has worked with Zapotec languages since 1989, with research on three modern varieties (Santa Ana del Valle, San Dionisio Ocotepec, and Macuiltianguis) as well as Colonial Valley Zapotec materials. He is the author of numerous publications on Zapotec and also author/editor of A Choctaw Reference Grammar; The origin of the sun and moon: A Copala Triqui legend; and Nana naguan’ rihaan nij sii chihaan’: Words of counsel for the Triqui people.

Michel R. Oudijk webpage Ethnohistorian, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Michel R. Oudijk is an historian/philologist whose main interest is Zapotec historiography and its relationship to present day communities. Since 1992 he has worked in three of the four main Zapotec regions and is renowned for his analysis of pictographic and alphabetic documents alike, relating historical information to present day landscapes and oral tradition. His work on the indigenous participation in the “Spanish” conquest of Mexico has opened up a whole new field of study called the New Conquest History. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. at Leiden University, after which he worked for a year in the National Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain. From there he became full professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and since 2004 he is a researcher at the Institute of Philological Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (the National Autonomous University of Mexico). He has published seven books and over 40 articles and chapters in journals and volumes all over the world, and is a well-known speaker at international academic meetings and in local indigenous communities events.

Laurie Allen Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Services at Magill Library, Haverford College

Laurie Allen is Coordinator for Digital Scholarship & Services at Haverford College. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Bard College and an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. She worked for 6 years at the Social Science Data and Research & Instructional Services Department at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Haverford College Libraries in 2008. Since 2011, Allen has led a team of students and staff within the Haverford Library as Coordinator for Digital Scholarship & Research Services. The Digital Scholarship Group supports faculty and student research projects with technical and infrastructural support. Allen and her team support several Drupal sites, databases, and mapping projects including The Global Terrorism Research Project and others. Allen has experience developing and training in Drupal, XML and TEI, and XSLT.

May Helena Plumb (Haverford College ’16): Summer 2013-Present.

Plumb is a linguistics major and a math and Spanish minor at Haverford College. She works on transcribing and translating Cordova’s Arte and is currently writing her senior thesis on coordination in Colonial Valley Zapotec.