HARTWELL S. FRANCIS Western Carolina University Dept. Anthropology and Sociology McKee 101 Cullowhee, NC 287203 office: hfrancis@email.wcu.edu home: hfrancislngst@gmail.com tel: (828) 227-2303 fax: (828) 227-7061 Research and teaching interests Cherokee and Arapaho languages, Native American languages, languages of small populations, verb structure, language curriculum development, dictionary development, electronic media, language loss and language invigoration Current Position Director, Cherokee Language Program, 2006 to Present Western Carolina University, Department of Anthropology and Sociology Develop Cherokee language program Establish and maintain relationships with speakers of Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Instruct courses in language, linguistics, and anthropology Recruit elementary education professionals for language revitalization Develop and complete language/culture documentation projects Community outreach, including websites, workshops, symposia, and conferences Plan and maintain program budget Secure funding for program continuation Education Ph.D., Linguistics, 2006 University of Colorado at Boulder Dissertation: Transitivity in Arapaho: A Construction Grammar Approach • Arapaho verb inflected for single distinguished argument • Distinguished argument determined by animacy and discourse status • Arapaho verb is inflected for semantic role of distinguished argument • Stem structure defines clusters of semantically related verbs Advisors: Drs. Laura A. Michaelis (chair) and Andrew Cowell M.A., Linguistics, 2000 University of Colorado at Boulder M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1994 Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Thesis: Prepositions in Engineering Textbooks Advisor: Dr. Jeanette DeCarico B.A., Spanish, Latin American Studies Minor, 1990 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Hartwell S. Francis Page 2 of 6 Fellowships and grants Cherokee Language Revitalization Initiative Grant Cherokee Preservation Foundation. 2007-2015 Principal officer (2009-2015) Dr. Jane Eastman, principal officer (2007-2008) Grants for Cherokee language revitalization WCU/Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians partnership. Close coordination with EBCI required. Visiting Scholar, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Research on Cherokee language print and manuscript materials. Assisted in creation of finding aid for Cherokee language materials. 2013 Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship Center for Humanities and the Arts Graduate Fellow. 2003-2004 IMPART Award Documentation and description of Chiwere (Iowa-Oto; Siouan language family) Dr. David S. Rood, principal investigator. 2001 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant The development of vernacular literacy in Mexico. 2000 University Fellowship The Graduate School of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 1998-1999 Research Finding Aid, Cherokee Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library Guide to the Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/beinecke:kilpatrick/PDF (accessed 9/8/2015) Lisa Conathan and Hartwell Francis High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship Participant in HiPSTAS 2013-2014 sound archiving, accessing, and study http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/about/ (accessed 9/8/2015) hosted at The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin Lexical Subjects Project Research Assistantship Linguistics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-1999 Dr. Laura A. Michaelis, principal investigator. Corpus of English conversations examined for occurrences of lexical subjects. Teaching University Teaching Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University Introduction to Master/Apprentice Language Learning: Language learning approach pairs adult learners with fluent native speaker. Linguistic Anthropology: Survey of the motivations and methodology for the study of language and its relationship to Hartwell S. Francis Page 3 of 6 culture and society. Language Death: Fully on-line course. Study of widespread language disappearance that coincides with increasing globalization. Modern Foreign Languages Department, Western Carolina University Cherokee 101 – Cherokee Speaking World: Fully on-line course. Introduction to Cherokee language. Cherokee 132 - Second semester beginning Cherokee: Fully on-line course. Cherokee 310 - Introduction to Cherokee Language Literature: course on history and texts of written Cherokee language. Cherokee 351 – Cherokee Grammar: Survey of grammar of the Cherokee language. Linguistics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder Language in U.S. Society: Survey the uses of language in the United States. Emphasis on language as a social institution. Summer 2003, Summer 2000 Written Composition: Develop written communication of intermediate speakers of English as an additional language. Emphasis on academic genres of English. Fall 2001 Literacy Practicum: Place undergraduate students in community literacy programs. Spring 2000 Teaching Assistantships Linguistics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder Introduction to Linguistics: Introduce the study of languages as structural systems and linguistics as a science. Spring 2001 Language and Gender: Introduces the study of the interaction between gender and language. Spring 2001 Language in U.S. Society: Survey the uses of language in the United States. Emphasis on language as a social institution. Virtual TA via WebCT. Fall 1999, Spring 2000 English Language Instructor International English Center, Boulder, CO, 1999 Nova International Institute, Fukuoka, Japan, 1996 Suzuki World Academy, Kyoto, Japan, 1995 Instituto Mexicano NorteAmericano de Relaciones Culturales de Saltillo, A.C., 1995 Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR, 1993 Hall Laboratories, Inc., Portland, OR, 1993 Amherst School District, Amherst, MA, 1997 Guest Lectures Compromised Expressive Events: Assessing Cherokee Texts Hockett's Design Features of Language Arapaho Verb Structure Hartwell S. Francis Page 4 of 6 Syntactic Structures in Arapaho Texts Writing Systems Mesoamerican Picture Books and Hieroglyphics Alphabet Books for Literacy Development Multimedia First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee Cherokee Language Wiki Kituwah Preservation and Education Program Wiki Facebook.com/ WCUCherokeeLanguage Cherokee Syllabary App Set of Pages of The Arapaho Project Associate producers Hartwell Francis and Tom Belt. Featurelength documentary produced by Neal Hutcheson and Danica Cullinan through The NC Language and Life Project. Walt Wolfram, executive producer. Wiki for distribution of Cherokee language learning video files, sound files, texts files, internet links, and other media. http://cherokeelanguage.wcu (9/8/15 access) Wiki for Western Carolina University Cherokee language revitalization partner Kituwah Preservation and Education Program. https://media.wcu.edu/groups/kpep/ (defunct) Social media outreach for Cherokee language program promotion and Cherokee language education. (9/8/15 access) Sginohisi Gohusdi 'Talk to Me' digital application for Cherokee writing system memorization. Early experimentation with electronic media. (9/8/15 access) http://www.colorado.edu/csilw/arapahoproject/ language/wm_ducks_apr_26_04/wm_ducks_home.html Publications Hartwell Francis, Tanya Clement, Gena Peone, Brian Carpenter, and Kristen Suagee-Beauduy. Accessing Sound at Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Under review. In Indigenous Ownership & Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Loriene Roy, Camille Callison, and Gretchen LeChemiant, eds. Margaret Bender, Thomas Belt, and Hartwell Francis. Under review. Beyond Indigeneity and Globalization: Reoccupation of the Cherokee Homeland. In Legacies of "Time Immemorial" In Native North America: Continuity, Creativity, And Emergent SelfDetermination. B. Perley, ed. University of Nebraska Press. Laura A. Michaelis and Hartwell S. Francis. 2007. Lexical Subjects and the Conflation Strategy. The Grammar- Pragmatics Interface: Papers in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, ed. by N. Hedberg and R. Zacharski. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Hartwell S. Francis, Michele L. Gregory, and Laura A. Michaelis. 1999. Are lexical subjects deviant? Chicago Linguistic Society 35.85-97. Scholarly presentations The Promise of Technology: Packaging Language Learning in the Digital Age, 6th Language Revitalization Symposium, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. 6/23/11. Cherokee Language in its Environment, North Carolina Folklore Society, Chapel Hill, NC. 4/2/11. Tom Belt, co-presenter. Hartwell S. Francis Page 5 of 6 Cherokee Language Constructions for Situating Entities and Events in Space, Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages, Tahlequah, OK. 4/18/09. The Grammar of it All: Cherokee Grammatical Knowledge as the Basis for Cherokee Language Instruction, 4th Annual Cherokee Language Symposium, Cherokee, NC. 6/5/08. Developing Cherokee Language Texts for Instruction, with Thomas Belt and Nannie Taylor. Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3/29/08. Stimulating Interaction with Pictures: Data Collection and Lesson Development, with Thomas Belt and Nannie Taylor. Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, Salt Lake City, Utah. 4/11/07. Developing and Utilizing Arapaho Language Learning Materials, with Wayne C'Hair. The Northern Arapaho Language Symposium. Lander, WY. 5/26/06. The use of pictures for teaching words and sentence structure, with Wayne C'Hair. The Northern Arapaho Language Symposium. Lander, WY. 5/27/06. Secondary derivation in Arapaho. The 37th Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. 10/25/05 Universal transitivity: Evidence from Arapaho. The 6th High Desert Linguistics Conference. Albuquerque, NM. 11/5/04 Preverbs in Arapaho. The 35th Algonquian Conference. London, Ontario. 10/24/03. Chiwere word classes, with co-author Armik Mirzayan. The 21st Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference. Chicago, Il. 6/15/01. Orthographic choices: Developing literature in language minority communities. The XXIX Annual International Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Pueblo, Mexico. 10/15/00. Are lexical subjects deviant?, with co-authors Michele L. Gregory and Laura A. Michaelis. The 35th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL. 5/24/99. Formal consequences of a marked syntactic choice: Morphosyntactic properties of lexical subjects in English conversation, with co-authors Michele L. Gregory and Laura A. Michaelis. Ninth annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Vancouver, B.C. 8/16/99. Does Lakhota have a subject? The 18th annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference. Bloomington, IN. 5/29/98. Professional Development • • Participation in Western Carolina University Coulter Faculty Center programs and events Participation in the Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado Hartwell S. Francis • Page 6 of 6 Linguistic Institute 1999 at the University of Illinois Academic service • • • • • • • • Participant and recorder of Cherokee Nation-Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Cherokee Language Consortium, institution for developing Cherokee language K-6 instructional materials Cohost, co-coordinator, and co-producer (with EBCI Kituwah Preservation and Education Program) of Annual Language Revitalization Symposium, Cherokee, NC and Cullowhee, NC (2007-2011) Working to establish Cherokee language exam for certification of education professionals Working to establish Cherokee Language High School I and II course work for college track students Colorado University Linguistics Association, Treasurer, 2000, President, 1999. Student Representative, Faculty Hiring Committee, Department of Linguistics, CU, 2002 Peer mentor, CU Linguistics Department, 2002 Athlete Tutoring, CU, 2001 Community involvement • • • • • • Sponsor and Host of Cherokee Speakers Breakfast/Lunch (2008-2015), weekly Cherokee language recording event Attendance, participation, and recording Cherokee Speakers Gathering, monthly Cherokee language event Developed, found funding for, and managed Native American Expo Poster Art Contest Consultant and guest speaker in area high school Cherokee language programs City of Boulder, CO At-Risk Youth mentor, Capoeira class assistant 2001 Canto do Galo Capoeira Batizado, Boulder and Denver, CO, Treasurer 2001, 2002