curriculum vitae

Ardis Eschenberg, Ph.D.

ACADEMIC TRAINING

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****-**** *********** **********, ********** at Buffalo, Ph.D, The article system of

Omaha

2001 Eastern European Summer Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh,

Intensive Intermediate Polish

1996 Russian School, Norwich University, masters level coursework1995-1999 Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, M.A., Polish Focus Structure

1994-1995 Psychology Department, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia1991-1995 Tulane University, B.S. cum laude, Psychology, Russian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Administration

Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Windward Community College2011-present Oversees all areas of student affairs as well as US DOE Title III

Developmental and

Collaborative Grant Projects.

Dean of Division I,

Windward Community College2010-present Oversees full- and part-time faculty in Language Arts, Humanities, and

Academic Support.

Academic Dean, Nebraska Indian Community College2005-2010 Oversees all full- and part-time faculty. Responsible for daily decision-making

and long-term

planning for a small, Native American community college with three campus sites on two

reservations and in one urban location.

2004-2005Student Support Services Advisor & Learning Center Coordinator,

Nebraska Indian Community College

Counsel and advise students who are primarily Native American, low-income, first

generation

college students. Support both faculty and students to promote learning and student

retention.

Teaching

2003-2010Instructor, Nebraska Indian Community College

Courses taught: NAS 110 Omaha Language I, NAS 111 Omaha Language II, NAS 252 Omaha

Language III,

NAS 253 Omaha Language IV, NAS 206: Oral Traditions and Tribal History, NAS 245: Native

American Literature,

NAS 310 Omaha Composition I, NAS 320 Omaha Literature, NAS 330 Public Speaking, NAS 415

Omaha

Composition II, NAS 420 Omaha Literature II

2008 Instructor, Wayne State College (Nebraska)

Course taught: ENG 326 Linguistic Theory & Application

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2000, 2006 Instructor, Umoho Nation Teacher Cadre, University of Nebraska (Lincoln)

Courses taught:TEAC 438 and C&I 438: Linguistics and the classroom teacher

1996-2001 Instructor, Linguistics, University at Buffalo

Courses taught: UB101 The University Experience, LIN 207 Language, Society, Individual,

LIN 302 The Structure

of English: Grammar and Lexicon

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Professional Service

2011 Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages

2011 Panel Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, MSI Fellowships

2010 Reviewer, International Journal of American Linguistics

2009, 2008 Reviewer, Nebraska Space Grant (NASA) Program

2008 Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Program

2001-2007 Website manager, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the

Americas (SSILA)

2001 Reviewer for Journal of Slavic Linguistics

Departmental and Institutional Service

2011-present Treasurer, Women Leaders in Higher Education (Hawaii)

2011 Co-chair, WCC Assessment Task Force

2010-present Board Member, Women Leaders in Higher Education (Hawaii)

2010-present Treasurer, Papa Makua o Pu ohala Elementary School (PTA)

2010-present Member, Ke Kumu Pali

2010-present Member, Institutional Effectiveness Committee

2010-present Convener, Ka Piko Learning Center committee

2006-2010 Institutional Representative, Nebraska Women in Higher Education Leadership

2005-2010 Scholarship and Financial Aid Committee, Nebraska Indian Community College

2005-2010 Committee on Scholastic Standing, Nebraska Indian Community College

2004-2010 Academic Council, (Chair), Nebraska Indian Community College

2004-2010 Administrative Council, Nebraska Indian Community College

2007 Chair, Nebraska Indian Community College Self-study Committee

2005 Editor, Nebraska Indian Community College Self-study Report

2004 Grievance committee, Nebraska Indian Community College

1999 Statewide Negotiating Team, Graduate Students Employee Union

1997-1999Departmental Steward,

Graduate Student Employees Union

1997-1999 Admissions Committee, Linguistics Department

1996-1997Executive Council, Linguistics Department

Field community work and service

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2005-2009 Linguist, Umoho Alcohol Treatment Center

Teach immersion Omaha lessons in collaboration with an Elder twice weekly.

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2000-2004Linguist, Umoho Nation Public School

Collaborate in daily teaching of high school and middle school Omaha language classes.

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2000-2001After-schoolSite Coordinator, Umoho Nation Public School

GRANTS

2012 New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music. Art installation for college

Learning Center, sponsored by the Smithsonian. (art, shipping, installation, removal)

2011 Excellence in Financial Aid. University of Hawaii System. ($20,000)

2011 Tuscarora Federal Recognition Project. Writer for Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the

Carolinas. Administration for Native Americans. ($260,000)

2011 Windward Assessment Project. Women s Campus Club. ($375)

2010 Perception Assessment. With Jan Lubin. UH Achieving the Dream. ($16,000.00)

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2010 Ko olau Language Assessment. Writer and Linguist. (PD Peter Moore) Administration

for Native Americans. ($88,500.00)

2009 NICC s Renovation of the Macy Campus. Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD-OUP-TCUP). ($800,000.00)

2009 USDA-CSREES Tribal Equity Education grant. ($114,000.00)

2009 Santee Campus Facility Build for Nebraska Indian Community College. US Department

of Education (Title III). ($1,300,000.00)

2009 Nebraska Native American Professional Development. U.S. Department of Education.

($400,000.00)

2009 National Science Foundation-National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting

Endangered Languages Post-Doctoral Fellowship ($50,000.00)

2008 American Indian College Fund Wisdom of the People (Woksape Oyate). ($365,000.00)

2008 USDA-CSREES Tribal Equity Education grant. ($110,000.00)

2007 Department of Defense Science Equipmentation grant. ($250,000.00)

2007 USDA-CSREES Tribal Equity Education grant. ($107,000.00)

2007 Administration for Native Americans, Category II grant. ($225,000)

2007 Administration for Native Americans, Category I grant. ($60,000)

2007 Van Vlack Family Charitable Trust Endowment Fund (Science & Math). ($2500)

2007 Title III Technology Minigrant. ($3000)

2007 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend. ($5000)

2007 Nebraska Career Education, Tech Prep. ($53,000)

2006 Administration for Native Americans, Category I grant. ($60,000)

2006 National Science Foundation Tribal Colleges and Universities Program. ($50,000)

2006 Title III Technology Minigrant. ($3000)

2006 Lance Armstrong Foundation. Spirit of Strength. ($10,000)

2006 Van Vlack Family Charitable Trust Endowment Fund (Science & Math). ($5000)

2005 Title III Technology Minigrant. ($6000)

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2004 A Teaching Grammar of Umo ho . Endangered Language Foundation . ($2022)

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2003 Umo ho 101. Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation Small Grant. ($250)

2001 The article system of Omaha. College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship,

University at Buffalo. ($4000)

2001 Omaha narrative collection. Jacobs Research Fund. ($1200)

2000 Post-verbal particles in Omaha. Mark Diamond Research Fund, University at Buffalo.

($1200)

PUBLICATIONS

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In Progress 501 Verbs in Umo ho .

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2009 Umo ho Iye. Nebraska Indian Community College, Macy, Nebraska (with Alice

F. Saunsoci) www.thenicc.edu->courses->omaha language

2006 Polish narrow focus constructions, in Topic and Focus: a workshop on intonation

and meaning, C.M. Lee (ed). Kluwer.

2004 The operator projection, Omaha and diachronic syntax in RRG. Proceedings of

the 2004 Role and Reference Grammar Conference. Dublin.

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2001 Umo ho I Curriculum. Umo ho Nation Public School, Macy, Nebraska (in

collaboration with Culture Center Staff).

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1998 Multiple level concatenation in Omaha-Ponca. Proceedings from the Panels of

the Chicago Linguistic Society s Thirty-sixth Meeting, Volume 36-2, Arika

Okrent and John Boyle (eds.).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2011 Invited Speaker. International Summer School on Endangered Languages. Regensburg

University, Germany.

2011 Invited Speaker. Language Revitalization Workshop at the Conference on Endangered

Languages and Cultures of North America. Salt Lake City.

2011 Invited Presenter. Symposium on the American Indian. Language Revitalization

Workshop. Tahlequah, OK.

2011 With Alice, Alison, and Logan Saunsoci. Resource creation for verb-based learning.

2nd

International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. Honolulu.

2010 Introduction to Grantsmanship. Invited Speaker. Leeward Community College. HI.

2010 With Jan Lubin. Perceptual Assessment of Gatekeeper Courses. PACAIR. Kaneohe, HI.

2009 The role of the linguist in language revitalization. Invited talk. University of

Dusseldorf. (Germany)

2009 Stereotypes and their effect in Native American Education. Invited talk. Passau

University. (Germany)

2009 Creation of pedagogically useful materials through fieldwork research. Invited talk.

Regensburg University (Germany).

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2009 With NICC s Omaha Language Program staff and students. NICC s Umo ho Language

Program and Web Resources. Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference. Lincoln.

2009 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Invited facilitators. Oklahoma Native Language

Association.

Norman, OK.

2009 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Using games to assess language acquisition. Invited

facilitators. Teacher Training Workshop at the Conference on Endangered Languages

and Cultures of North America. Salt Lake City.

2009 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Immersion Classroom Curriculum & Materials Development.

Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of North America. Salt Lake City.

2008 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci and NICC Language Experts-in-training students. Toward the

development of a two year Omaha language college curriculum. Siouan and Caddoan

Conference. Joplin, MO.

2008 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Invited facilitators. Oklahoma Native Language

Association.

Norman, OK.

2008 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Immersion Classroom Curriculum & Materials

Development. Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of

North America. Salt Lake City.

2008 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Invited Speakers. Introduction to Immersion Teaching.

Teacher Training Workshop at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of

North America. Salt Lake City.

2007 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Verb-centered teaching for a verb-centered language: food,

fun, and games. Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of North America.

Salt Lake City.

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2007 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Ablaut in Umoho . Society for the Study of the Indigenous

Languages of the Americas Annual Conference. Anaheim.

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2005 Extended fieldwork in a Native American Community. Invited speaker. Semantics of

Under-represented Languages in the Americas Conference. Buffalo.

2005 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Documentation as revitalization (Omaha language).

Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of North America. Salt Lake

City.

2005 The grammaticalization of proximate verbal morphology in Omaha. Society for the

Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) annual meeting. San

Fransisco.

2004 The operator projection, Omaha and diachronic syntax in RRG. Role and Reference

Grammar 2004. Dublin.

2004 With Mrs. Alice Saunsoci. Development of curriculum and materials for a first year

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Umo ho language course. Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference. Wayne, NE.

2004 Aksionsart, transitivity and the function of wa- in Omaha. Society for the Study of

the

Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) annual meeting. Boston.

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2003 Workshop on the structure of words, sentences and the verb phrase in Umoho .

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Umo ho Nation Language Center, Umoho Nation Public School. Macy, Nebraska.

2003 The status of palatalization in Russian: an examination using slips of the tongue.

Poster session. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting. Atlanta.

2003 The grammaticalization of ama in Omaha. Society for the Study of the Indigenous

Languages of the Americas (SSILA) annual meeting. Atlanta.

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2002 Workshop on the sound system and structure of Umoho . Umo ho Nation Language

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Center, Umoho Nation Public School. Macy, Nebraska.

2001 Workshop on the article and deictic system of Omaha-Ponca. Workshop on Comparative

Siouan Syntax. Boulder.

2001 Focus structure and construction templates in Polish. Role and Reference Grammar

Conference. LSA Summer Institute, Santa Barbara.

2001 Polish narrow focus constructions. Topic and focus: a workshop on intonation and

meaning. LSA Summer Institute, Santa Barbara.

2001 The quotative ama in Omaha-Ponca. Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference.

Chicago.

2000 Multiple level concatenation in Omaha-Ponca. Chicago Linguistics Society Conference.

Chicago.

2000 Current fieldwork on the Omaha language. Invited talk. Wayne State College of

Nebraska.

2000 Morpheme variability and morpho-syntactic theory. Niskithe Conference. Lincoln.

2000 Two kinds of when in Omaha-Ponca. Society for the Study of the Indigenous

languages of the Americas (SSILA) annual meeting. Chicago.

1999 Subordinators in Omaha-Ponca. Niagara Linguistics Society Conference. Buffalo.

1999 Native American Language and Linguistics Workshop participant, Preston, Oklahoma.

1999 Verbal morphology and storyworld status in Omaha. International Conference on

Storytelling. St. Catherines, Ontario.1999 Focus in Polish complex sentences. Role

and Reference Grammar Workshop. LSA Summer Institute. Urbana.

1999 A perspective analysis of obviation markers in Omaha-Ponca. Siouan and Caddoan

Languages Conference. Regina, Saskatchewan.

1997 Language Varieties in the U.S.: A roundtable discussion. E Pluribus Unum II.

Buffalo.

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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2000-2002 Visiting Scholar, Wayne State College of Nebraska

1995-1998 Presidential Fellow, University at Buffalo

1995 Phi Beta Kappa

1995 Mortar Board (national honor society), Tulane University

1994 Daisy Chain, Newcomb College

1992 Newcomb Asset, Newcomb College

1991-1995Dean s Honor Scholar, Tulane University

1991 National Merit Finalist

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of University Women

Linguistics Society of America

Women Leaders in Higher Education

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

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REFERENCES - PROFESSIONAL

Jeff G. Hart, Ed. D., Faculty Educator

Special Projects

Leadership, Diversity & Organizational Management

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension

204 Mussehl Hall, UNL

Lincoln, NE 68583-0714

402-***-**** (work)

402-***-**** (fax)

402-***-**** (cell)

aboqbo@r.postjobfree.com

works with college on team building, personality types, and effective communication

Mr. Don Torgerson

Business Instructor, Interim Academic Dean

Nebraska Indian Community College

PO Box 428

1 College Hill

Macy, NE 68067

402-***-**** x2572

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instructor supervised by applicant, currently Interim Dean during my sabbatical

Dr. Dawn Mollenkopf

University of Nebraska at Kearney

Department of Teacher Education

College of Education B-188

Kearney, NE 68849-5540

308-***-**** (work)

308-***-**** (fax)

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grant project collaborator for Early Childhood B.A. program at NICC

Ms. Susan Skinner

415 South Court

Craig, NE 68019

402-***-**** (home)

402-***-**** (cell)

402-***-**** (work)

aboqbo@r.postjobfree.com

Early Childhood Education instructor, worked together on program review and

improvement

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Ms. Dawn Hair

Instructor

Nebraska Indian Community College

PO Box 428

1 College Hill

Macy, NE 68067

402-***-****

(cell) 712-***-****

aboqbo@r.postjobfree.com

faculty member, collaborator on grants (science related)

Additional references for Grants Officers for federal grants with whom the applicant

works can

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